How do you vacation?

I love to travel.. we do all types, cruises, rent an rv and camping long distances (did the whole southern island of new zealand last year), on our own at airbnb, traveling around london on own, organized small groups..
I don't mind putting together breakfast, grab a picnic for lunch, whatever. when camping, we make super simple meals and call it good. we did a camping trip around the southwest in may a couple of years ago.. flew into vegas, bought gas for the stove and went off for a week all over. rained and snowed a lot, but we are hardy campers.. and have been doing it all our lives.

I really want to do more backpacking in the northwest.. maybe summer after next when I retire.

we have lived in asia and are comfortable traveling overseas. we are not fans of resorts or beach trips. we tend to go to historic sites and museums and art museums...

We take one Caribbean vacation with an all-inclusive. Then we take some other shorter trips through the year (always one or two to Vegas) and then to somewhere closer. I am not opposed to going to the grocery store to pick up groceries and have breakfast/lunch at the room/rental. We almost always have dinner out. As long as I get one great all-inclusive vacation, I am up for being more flexible for the other vacations. I wouldn't want to go somewhere where I was cooking 2-3 meals a day though.

Vacation=no cooking!

Most of our trips are to cities, and we stay in hotels, so cooking is pretty much out whether we wanted to cook or not. I like visiting urban areas, walking around, going to museums, eating local foods, taking in the atmosphere. It is what we do mostly now that the kids are out of the house.

If we do go to a cabin (once in a blue moon), then we would probably cook. We used to go to the lake with a couple of friends for water skiing, jet skiing, etc.

We cruise, do beach vacations and vacations in France.

We rent an apartment in Paris and we do cook a bit. We normally have lunches and a few dinners out during a week. But we’ll cook 2 or 3 dinners. We like getting getting food from the markets and having a simple meal in after having been out all day.

On our beach vacation we cook 75% of our meals in. Mostly because we are at the beach all day and then just veg at night. But it’s simple meals like grilled meats/veg. We will go out a couple of times, either for lunch or dinner.

For some place like Vegas or Chicago we eat out every meal. But those would just be long weekend trips so nothing so long that you feel like you want to stay in.

I will say, however, that it’s simple meals for just me and DH and we both shop, cook and clean up. So it’s not like Mom taking care of everything/everyone from start to finish.

I really don’t have one specific vacation style. I love to explore a new city and see the sights and I’m also perfectly happy relaxing at a beach house for a week. NO COOKING, though. Part of a great vacation, to me, is trying out new restaurants and cuisines. 

We are beach vacationers, and Hawaii is someplace we travel to frequently (but never the exact same place -- different islands, different parts of the same island, etc.) We also mix it up and travel elsewhere -- to Europe, to Asia, and to the Caribbean.

Definitely no cooking on vacation. We will grab breakfast and snack items from the store to keep in the room, and we might heat up something in the microwave, but no actual cooking. We haven't done a cruise (I am a very hands on planner and like to do what I want when I want). We haven't been to an all inclusive resort yet either but we will later this year because we are vacationing with other people who chose the AI.

I prefer to visit a new place for each vacation. After spending the first 15 years married life using all my vacation to visit in laws there is nothing left to do or see in Nashville. We still visit family but I don’t use all my PTO to sit around someone else’s house doing the same thing I do at home.

I’m also now allergic to the sun so beach vacations are out.

We typically don't cook on vacations. I want to see somewhere new when I travel. DH has mobility issues, so we usually cruise, but sometimes we take short trips to cities that are a short hop on an airplane. We did a long weekend in DC last year, a short weekend in Chicago once. That sort of thing. Traveling is my favorite thing.

What's a vacation?    Seriously, my vacation usually involves painting...it seems we never have money to go anywhere so I just take my vacation time when I feel like repainting a room.  I find it relaxing...a beach would be so much nicer.  A city would be fun.  Italy is on my bucket list.  Until then, I will road trip to Lake Michigan periodically and just enjoy the sand and waves. 

We love to travel and the farther away the better! Our last 2 family trips have been to Italy and Paris. For spring break we are headed to NYC. We like walking and it is not unusual to hit 10 or 12 miles a day. We love history and visiting museums or historical sites. We love local food but don't go out of our way to eat at ultra fancy or expensive places. That said, Hawaii is one of my all time favorite places and is the best place for me to slow down and relax. :-)

Forgot to answer the cooking part.  No cooking at all unless we are in Hawaii.  Cooking in Hawaii is usually cutting up a Costco roasted chicken and throwing together a bagged salad or making sandwiches for the beach.  If we want to go out for a meal we will do that too.

Has he done the Cowtown? Really well run race with a very festive finish area!

We love to travel. I think our travel style tends to go in spurts. I don't like vacations to be stressful. I like to go do and see but have to enjoy the pace. Some days that is packed and the next day we might go to a coffee shop and bookstore for several hours. I like vacations to be what we find nourishing and meaningful. We like to get away with our kids 1-2 times a year and we like to get away without our kids 1-2 times a year. For the most part we eat breakfast in, lunch out and dinner mostly out but if we are tired from the day we will eat something easy back at our rental. 

We vacationed to Destin once a year for 5-6 years. It was a great fit for our family at that time, we love the ocean and it was a trip that we could leave early in the morning and we would be pulling in at sunset. I would cook about 75% of the meals and that worked well for us. 

We went to a family camp a couple hours away for 11 years. 6 days, each July and it was one of the best choices we ever made. We had family time, couple time and other campers became dear friends that we would gather with each July. 

For a few years we would go on a cruise when it was just us and we left our kids with my mom. We can drive down to Galveston the same day and its a carefree way to escape. I could easily book something for our port days and didn't have to think about much else. We haven't done that in years but for a few years it was an inexpensive and easy escape. We ended up wanting a change from some of the typical ports and flew out to LA to do a CA coastal cruise. I had never been to CA and we thought it would be a great way to get a taste of CA without driving and still getting some of the things we loved about cruising. We did a few of those and it was such a nice change and intro to CA. 

We did a couple of Disney cruises with our kids and loved those. We went a 2nd time earlier than we had planned so our middle son could take part in the teen program prior to turning 18. 

We have been on a California kick for the last 4-5 years. We love the weather, food, people, nature and so many things to do. Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Fran, Carmel, San Simeon, SLO, Cambria & Big Sur have been our favorites. I may be forgetting a few areas but thats what comes to mind. We usually do a day trip or two if we are there for 5-7 days and venture out an hour or two away for a change of pace. 

We may venture to Seattle and Oregon this year or next. We prefer to visit a place with just us before deciding if we think it is a great fit for a family vacation. We aren't into road trips. Southwest is our favorite airline and American next in line. 

I like to go places where there are a number of things to do and see, I like to be warm and have lots of good food choices, I like taking time to just relax with movies or a pool or whatever, and I do not cook or clean on vacation, so I specifically don’t want a kitchen on vacation. We go the same place sometimes and different places sometimes, but I am done with cooking and cleaning on vacation so that is my line in the sand.

Last vacation I picked a warm destination and found a hotel with an amazing pool and that’s all we did, eat and pool. This year we are going to London and that will be a lot of exploring, very different vacation.

We are not huge vacationers. Our two main things now that the kids are grown are Vegas and the Oregon coast. Vegas is no cooking. The Oregon vacation we have dh’s family’s condo and we mostly eat out but I bring some things that are simple just so we can be so lazy to not even go eat. Lol I’ll bring a crock pot and have pulled pork - just super easy stuff. Probably ends up being 70% eating out, 30% “cooking.”