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Anyone heading off on holidays this year?

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  • 27-04-2014 11:01pm
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    Banjo String
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    It's that time again, planning on jetting off for a holiday with the family.

    Using trivago, and Skyscanner, I reckon I can get the 4 of us of to a fairly decent resort in Portugal for ten days for a reasonable fee. I have a figure in my head that travel agents will have to compete with to offer me an all in package (flight's, accommodation and transfer)

    First two weeks in July. I'm thinking Algarve.....

    Anyone in AH any advice /heads up for best destination (we've an infant, so thinking 3hr flight max)

    Any other recommendations?

    Go!


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    The Travel forum.


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    The_Pretender
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    Yep heading to Lanzarote first 2 weeks of July.

    Can't wait. :)

    I've stayed in the Algarve plenty of times and absolutely loved it btw!


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    myshirt
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    Travel forum


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    Sauve
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    The Travel forum.

    No no, he meant in real life. Outside the internet like.


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    Kichote
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    Maybe i'll go to cape clear some weekend


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    antodeco
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    Only back from Gran Canaria. Off to Barcelona next week :D I'm quite the jetsetter


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    jbt90
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    It's that time again, planning on jetting off for a holiday with the family.

    Using trivago, and Skyscanner, I reckon I can get the 4 of us of to a fairly decent resort in Portugal for ten days for a reasonable fee. I have a figure in my head that travel agents will have to compete with to offer me an all in package (flight's, accommodation and transfer)

    First two weeks in July. I'm thinking Algarve.....

    Anyone in AH any advice /heads up for best destination (we've an infant, so thinking 3hr flight max)

    Any other recommendations?

    Go!

    I wouldn't really call going to the Algarve or anywhere in Portugal a holiday

    A holiday is something is usually a good trip to the states/oz/dubai or multiple trips in europe at once ie amsterdam,berlin,ibiza,paris etc


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    coffee_cake
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    Sauve wrote: »
    No no, he meant in real life. Outside the internet like.

    Don't be silly, I'll just sit here and see the world from google maps street view...


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    GLaDOS
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    Mini interrailing, hitting Brussels, Munich, Vienna and Prague.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    Legs.Eleven
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    jbt90 wrote: »
    I wouldn't really call going to the Algarve or anywhere in Portugal a holiday

    A holiday is something is usually a good trip to the states/oz/dubai or multiple trips in europe at once ie amsterdam,berlin,ibiza,paris etc

    Ye wha?


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    The One Doctor
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    jbt90 wrote: »
    I wouldn't really call going to the Algarve or anywhere in Portugal a holiday

    A holiday is something is usually a good trip to the states/oz/dubai or multiple trips in europe at once ie amsterdam,berlin,ibiza,paris etc

    You desperately need to keep up with the Jones, right?


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    Stavros Murphy
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    It's that time again, planning on jetting off for a holiday with the family.

    Using trivago, and Skyscanner, I reckon I can get the 4 of us of to a fairly decent resort in Portugal for ten days for a reasonable fee. I have a figure in my head that travel agents will have to compete with to offer me an all in package (flight's, accommodation and transfer)

    First two weeks in July. I'm thinking Algarve.....

    Anyone in AH any advice /heads up for best destination (we've an infant, so thinking 3hr flight max)

    Any other recommendations?

    Go!
    feck me, fools seldom differ. Herself has booked the same deal, except a bit earlier in the year. Got all-inclusive for 5 in a very nice hotel for around 2k, not cheap, not dear. Being dull, we usually also go to the Canaries in Nov/Dec but I like it there and it's like a second home. Good for swimming etc - and familiar. I like all-inclusive, cuts out the ar5ing round looking for food and I've done my exciting travel locations already. Throw in a couple of long weekends in London or Paris, and we're sorted.


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Sauve wrote: »
    No no, he meant in real life. Outside the internet like.

    Even outside of Cork or that other big town?


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    fussyonion
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    I hate holiday snobs.

    One persons' paradise is another persons' hell.
    I'm off to Spain in August and it's a package holiday and there'll be karaoke and drinks and loudness and I don't care if it's not a white beach in Barbados with nobody around and nothing to do at night...THAT'S my idea of hell.


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    Banjo String
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    jbt90 wrote: »
    I wouldn't really call going to the Algarve or anywhere in Portugal a holiday

    A holiday is something is usually a good trip to the states/oz/dubai or multiple trips in europe at once ie amsterdam,berlin,ibiza,paris etc

    If I'm not working, phone on divert, and not worrying about work for a week or two it's a holiday.

    I've been to all of the above you've mentioned btw, bar Dubai. I've also been to the Algarve a good few times.

    With its proximity to Ireland, flight wise, it is satisfactory to me.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Sure my life is a holiday.


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    Banjo String
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    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    feck me, fools seldom differ. Herself has booked the same deal, except a bit earlier in the year. Got all-inclusive for 5 in a very nice hotel for around 2k, not cheap, not dear. Being dull, we usually also go to the Canaries in Nov/Dec but I like it there and it's like a second home. Good for swimming etc - and familiar. I like all-inclusive, cuts out the ar5ing round looking for food and I've done my exciting travel locations already. Throw in a couple of long weekends in London or Paris, and we're sorted.

    You sir, just may have got yourself a wing man. ;)


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    Sauve
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Even outside of Cork or that other big town?

    Ah now don't be losing the run of yourself. Sure why would you want to be leaving the county like.


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    Stavros Murphy
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Sure my life is a holiday.

    That's only because you go around in hawaii shorts and sun-glasses all year round. And if there was work in the bed you'd sleep on the floor. :P


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    dee_mc
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    jbt90 wrote: »
    I wouldn't really call going to the Algarve or anywhere in Portugal a holiday

    A holiday is something is usually a good trip to the states/oz/dubai or multiple trips in europe at once ie amsterdam,berlin,ibiza,paris etc

    What would you call it then? A break? A trip? Penance?
    I've had holiday snobs tell me they weren't on holiday, they were 'travelling' (to one destination... for 3 weeks) but I've never heard someone take issue with calling a holiday a holiday because it doesn't involve long-haul and/or multiple flights?!
    To answer the original question, was in the US for a holiday earlier this year and might manage a week in Spain or the Canaries in winter. Something cheap and hopefully cheerful.


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    I'm off to Greece next weekend and cannot wait! Going all inclusive as the hotel is on the beach.

    Don't care if it rains everyday. Once the mobiles are off and there's nobody disturbing us, that's all I need to class my week away as a holiday.


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    JohnMearsheimer
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    Myself and my girlfriend are off to Canada and the US in September and NYC in December. We were in Amsterdam last month as well. We both turned 30 this year so we decided to go a bit mad while we still can :)


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    MRnotlob606
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    go to longford and throw wellies at those bogmen


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Sauve wrote: »
    Ah now don't be losing the run of yourself. Sure why would you want to be leaving the county like.

    I have irreconcilable thoughts on living there.


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    Legs.Eleven
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    fussyonion wrote: »
    I hate holiday snobs.

    One persons' paradise is another persons' hell.
    I'm off to Spain in August and it's a package holiday and there'll be karaoke and drinks and loudness and I don't care if it's not a white beach in Barbados with nobody around and nothing to do at night...THAT'S my idea of hell.

    Spain is a kip. Yeah. The whole country. Kip.


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    Sauve
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Spain is a kip. Yeah. The whole country. Kip.

    State of it. Full of drunk holidaymakers shouting and pissing everywhere :rolleyes:


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    Sir Arthur Daley
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    The Algarve in the weeks you are going op will be as busy as the local dump of the night club on st.stephens night, wrong to be considering spain a kip, quiet a beautiful country.


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    Legs.Eleven
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    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    The Algarve in the weeks you are going op will be as busy as the local dump of the night club on st.stephens night, wrong to be considering spain a kip, quiet a beautiful country.

    I think it's a dive.


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    _Brian
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    Off to France for two weeks in July and then a week in Kerry and Clare on way back.

    Was in Wexford last weekend, off to Donegal in June and Sligo for a week in August.

    We scrimp and save, never go out and don't smoke. But we like to get away a bit over the summer.


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    fussyonion
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    Legs.Eleven wrote: »
    Spain is a kip. Yeah. The whole country. Kip.

    :confused: What's your point?


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