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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People could have such extraordinary vacations in the South Pacific - Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu - for less than the cost of renting a beach house in Bethany or Rehoboth or the Outer Banks in August.

For more informed people, the US isn't competing these days. Lame and expensive. There are far better opportunities and experiences overseas than what the US tourism industry is offering at these price levels. [/quote]

But doesn’t this only make sense if you can take several weeks of vacation at a time?  Flying around the world for a one week vacation doesn’t seem economical, comfortable, or good for the environment., I think the issue is that most Americans just can’t afford to take off 2-3 weeks at a time.  I don’t think I’ve ever taken a vacation longer than 10 days.  I’m not the type to rent a house in rehobeth for a month but the people I know that do that do it specifically so that one or both spouses can drive back and forth to DC for work meetings as needed.  [/quote]

Agreed.  We took a few multiweek vacations to Europe before we had kids- twice ~2 weeks to Europe and 3 weeks in SE Asia for our honeymoon.  But I really had to save up my leave for those and we had understanding employers who granted that much at a time.  And because we didn't have kids we had a lot more flexibility on time of year, flight times/routes and were able to use miles for our tickets.  It's a lot harder to make that work now due to the school scheuldes and the random bits of time I'm taking off throughout the year for school breaks, events, etc.  Not to mention our parents are older and we pretty much have to go to them now.  [b]We'd like to take or kids on an international trip soon for a couple weeks to make it worthwhile but there's no way we could pull that off every year or multiple times a year.[/b][/quote]

We do an international trip once every two or three years.  For us, it’s plenty. [/quote]

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