Orikoru
Tour Winner
I'm not a big holiday person really. Me and the missus have been on about four proper ones in 9 years. I'm ginger and pale so being somewhere hot is actually a pain in the backside for me, far from being desirable. We have our honeymoon coming up this December (although it will be two years after our wedding). We're going to Dominican Republic, but it's not the hottest time of the year for them, so hopefully it's just nice. My idea of a good holiday is just relaxing and enjoying the all-inclusive bar and food really. She prefers to go and do activities so I usually have to relent and do that for a few of the days.
I always used to prefer going to festivals and stuff to a traditional 'holiday' but now I'm the wrong side of 30 it's difficult to find enough mates that still want to do that. Boozy weekends away are always good, like Budapest a couple of years ago.
To answer the original post, they can be a waste of money if you don't know where to look, but my missus has a few avenues for getting cheap deals and suchlike, so we wouldn't book to go away for the sake of it unless we were getting it for a good price. But with the infrequency with which we go away, I certainly wouldn't call it 'essential' either. Somewhere in between.
I always used to prefer going to festivals and stuff to a traditional 'holiday' but now I'm the wrong side of 30 it's difficult to find enough mates that still want to do that. Boozy weekends away are always good, like Budapest a couple of years ago.
To answer the original post, they can be a waste of money if you don't know where to look, but my missus has a few avenues for getting cheap deals and suchlike, so we wouldn't book to go away for the sake of it unless we were getting it for a good price. But with the infrequency with which we go away, I certainly wouldn't call it 'essential' either. Somewhere in between.
