How long are your vacations? Do you prefer short trips or long ones?

[ronandannette]

We spent our earlier years just doing "getaways" that were within driving distance. Did them to death, actually. Now there's nowhere local we're even remotely interested in going. We're actually sitting here on the couch today just kicking back on our 22nd wedding anniversary because no weekend destination had any appeal. Our shortest "vacation" was to Hawaii for 4 days and we've done several long weekends in SoCal, but neither of those options were in the budget this year.

As for longer trips, we go on a lot of cruises and we try to choose Sunday departures so we can fly out on the Saturday before and home directly after we disembark. That uses up 5 days of vacation time (9 days off work in total) and seems long enough to us. We went to Europe this spring and were gone for 14 days - our longest trip ever. Although we loved every second, I was actually pretty happy to get home and it was a pain to get through the back-log waiting back at the office.

 

[bigbabyblues]

Anything considered a vacation is at least a week. This year, we did a week at Nags Head in June, and we are going back for a full week at Thanksgiving. If we go to WDW, it is usually 8 or 9 nights there plus a day of driving on each end, sometimes we spend a night at a hotel on the road, sometimes we drive straight through. DH & I have done WDW twice for 4 nights, and it just isn't worth it.

Occasionally, we do little short trips to the New River Gorge or Hocking Hills, and those are never longer than two days, but I don't consider that a vacation.

 

[MIGrandma]

You need an "other" category to vote!! I like them both!!

We just returned yesterday from an 11-night vacation - 8 nights in the upper peninsula with our truck camper, followed by 3 nights in a hotel on Mackinac Island.

We discussed our next vacation on the drive home - either a couple weeks in February (driving) to Florida to visit DH's Dad and sightsee and go to our favorite places, or wait until the end of March and go to the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, Tennessee area and stay 2-3 nights at a hotel in Gatlinburg then rent a cabin in the mountains for a week.

Right now I have a November 2018 Disney trip planned with DD (8 nights) and DH and I have a 7-night Royal Caribbean cruise (Oasis of the Seas) booked for February 2019. I'm sure we'll either go a week early or stay a week after the cruise to enjoy Florida too. We enjoy the Daytona Beach and Cocoa Beach areas a lot, and always visit his Dad and step-Mom too.

We love taking shorter 2-3 night trips too. For my birthday last month we spent 2 nights in Frankenmuth. And we're talking about another Vegas trip (3-4 nights) in the not-too-distant-future as it's been 10 years since we've been there.

 

[pigletto]

I prefer longer trips. 10 days is about perfect, though I don't mind longer. The key to being comfortable going away that long as a dog owner is that I have an absolutely fabulous pet sitter. She and her husband are vet techs, have two dogs of their own and treat mine like family. They're even allowed to sleep in her bed .. and they don't sleep in ours lol. So she's expensive but worth every penny and I have zero worries when we are away.

Next summer we are going on a three week road trip and we're really excited. We also go to a family cottage that is 6 hours away from here.. for those trips a 4 day weekend is perfect, so we usually use a vacation day to extend holiday weekends.