What was your favorite holiday...?

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I'd be interested to read what was your all-time favourite holiday...?

This may just give me holiday ideas for 2008...!

Thanks.

Sola

Without a doubt, it was the trips to America to stay with friends we made online in 3 different states. I felt we saw underneath the surface of the country.

lilac_lady

Going to Russia. I never dreamed that I'd ever be in St Peterburg.

mrs_thrifty_2

For me it was a 6 day trip to Norway. Sailed from Newcastle and took car. Stayed in a farmhouse just outside Voss and we had wonderful weather. It was 1991 but still rates as my No.1 in spite of many other trips both in UK and abroad.

poppyolivia

Disneyland Paris....hated the idea before but since we went I have TOTALLY changed my mind...its the best place in the world!!!

1WK 5DAYS to go...and 2 suitcases full of thermals!!!

Jennifer_Jane

Mine was a trip in March 2006 to Cape Town, South Africa. The weather was lovely and we swam with penguins at Boulders, horserode, kayakked and then swam in the river. Swam in the bays (keeping a look out for the flags which indicate a shark in the bay). It was like a childhood I never had! I saw and stayed with friends and had plenty of money to take friends to lunches and dinners. Hired a car so I could get around.

Either that or the last one in Cape Town (November 2007) when the weather wasn't so great, so did less swimming (only in friend's pool), but drank more wine and saw the whales with their calves in several bays (had never seen that before, and it was wonderful to see these great creatures so close up).

Cost of the flight (Nov 07) £467 inc taxes from Manchester to Amsterdam and then on to Cape Town.

And remember, Martin Lewis got engaged on top of Table Mountain at dusk!

South Africa is gorgeous, but as you know, has tremendous poverty. You need to be aware of the facts and take reasonable care over security.

Jen xx

Horace

I have two favourite holidays - one in March 2003 when I travelled around Australia. I enjoyed working on a ranch near Canberra, doing a Billy Connolly walking on the top of their parliament building, flying over Ayers Rock, the Sounds of Silence Dinner, the Great Barrier Reef, the Kuranda Skyrail and spending wodges of cash in Peter Lik's photographic gallery in Cairns.

My second holiday was in 2006 when my OH took me to Schladming in Austria for a ski trip (I don't ski btw), he skiied and I did my thing - walking, shopping etc. We both went tobogganing which was fab although we crashed at the bottom and I ripped my ski jacket (ho hum) but best of all was the Snowtubing session at a local farm it only cost 20 euros and was the absolute best - even at half time when we were invited into the farmhouse to be entertained by their 9 year old son who played the squeeze box and we were given hot apple wine before we headed out again. Snow tubing is basically sitting in a large inner tube sliding down a hill to land in snow at the bottom - I just loved the run with a huge bump in it making me literally take off. Oh, we did get locked out of the hotel for several hours too but that was because they didn't tell us to take our key with us or we would be locked out. Still great experience and can't wait to go back - maybe I will try cross country skiing instead because at least it is flat and I do flat better than hills.

debs66_2

easy - Vegas and 6 day road trip for my 40th. we had 3 days in Vegas and then picked up a PT Cruiser convertible (which we named Tallulah). drove north out of Vegas and went through the Valley Of Fire. stopped for water and ice in a sleepy town called Overton and had breakfast at a small diner there called Sugar's - while a TV on the wall airred a re-run of a recent England world cup match.

we ate proper hash browns and runny eggs while cheering on Beckham and the boys (even though we knew they would lose)! on the way out a road runner ran straight across the road in front of us and my fella wouldn't believe me when i said what it was (i think he thought they should be 4 feet tall and blue..and a cartoon)

went on to Springdale in Utah and Zion National Park (the most beautiful place I have ever seen), then on to Paige, Arizona, and then the Grand Canyon. Spent 2 days in stunning Sedona, did a Pink Jeep tour through the red rocks where many western films were set, then stopped at Jerome, an old copper mining town, before heading off to Yucca and a night on a ranch, two horse rides included, which was located at the end of an eleven mile desert track.

it was odd waking up on a ranch with nothing else in view for miles, and ending up the day in the grand opulance of the Venetian hotel back in Vegas, which we were amazingly upgraded at despite looking like hell, dirty and sweaty from the dry desert heat.

ahh, the memories. i will forever treasure those from that trip.:rolleyes:

photome

Vegas and the American west, heading out shortly for my 6th trip.

I have been to a few places, as was in the Navy

Thailand was good, but still keep going back to the USA

Dumbledore55

Sicily - superb views and food - but you need good flip flops for the stoney beaches

puds1970

Well I enjoy a rest in good quality surroundings as my favourite type of hols so a 2 week stay in excellence riviera in Mexico for me.
Ive been fortunate enough to do a fair bit of travelling and been to Mexico 4 times before but this hotel value for money stakes rates highly and we are looking at returning in October this year.
Highly recommended.