********* Official 2014 holiday thread*********

[Husty]

Val Thorens, easter. Skiing & Drinking.

 

[wehatepalace]

Val Thorens, easter. Skiing & Drinking.

I love VT been there quite a few times.

 

[Trufflehound]

Santiago, Chile and then Easter Island in February.

Went to Easter Island in 2012. Loved it. Valparaiso on the mainland is also well worth a visit.

 

[Bean]

Just spent a week in Les Deux Alpes, lovely bit of skiing during the day and good festivities in the evenings. Then going for a two month trip to Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Went to Easter Island in 2012. Loved it. Valparaiso on the mainland is also well worth a visit.

Cheers!

 

[SK1NT]

Also hate flying. Haven't been on holiday in 3 years. Just the airports annoy me... however I am taking the misses to Amsterdam on the 15th Feb for 3 nights and then a week in the sun somewhere prob (no more than a few hrs flight)

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

The Hard Rock is brilliant. We didn't do any Universal last year, but we normally do 4 or 5 nights at the Hard Rock. Decent rooms, great pool and FOTL access for the parks is a great bonus.

Our only problem with HRH is that we can't seem to find any suites there, or should I say there 6 of us so would need 2 rooms. We may even play it by ear and see what queues are like at Universal before making any decision, seeing as main reason for staying there would be FOLP.

We thought we would have a week holiday after we did 2 weeks in Orlando! Your first trip to Florida?

That does seem the more sensible way, however last time we went the kids really suffered for couple of days after flight with sore throats and jet lag, so we thought do that while lazing on the beach. We've been before but we're going bit earlier in the year this time, last 2 weeks in August first in September, before it's been end of September beginning October. What about you, is this your first time to Florida?

 

[Wiggy Power]

Our only problem with HRH is that we can't seem to find any suites there, or should I say there 6 of us so would need 2 rooms. We may even play it by ear and see what queues are like at Universal before making any decision, seeing as main reason for staying there would be FOLP.




That does seem the more sensible way, however last time we went the kids really suffered for couple of days after flight with sore throats and jet lag, so we thought do that while lazing on the beach. We've been before but we're going bit earlier in the year this time, last 2 weeks in August first in September, before it's been end of September beginning October. What about you, is this your first time to Florida?

Snap! We flight out 15th Aug and return 5th Sep. This is the first time with the kids, went when I was a nipper back in the 90's. Bet things have changed since then.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Valparaiso on the mainland is also well worth a visit.

If you do Valparaiso try and visit the “Hotel Brighton” – we stumbled upon it by accident on a scorching hot day in August after looking at all the graffiti that the city is famous for. No Harveys but some very nice Chilean reds. It's the orange one.

Santiago was a fantastic place, seems to have a lot of pollution unfortunately in the hottest months, but very memorable city. Vineyards are a must as well.

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Snap! We flight out 15th Aug and return 5th Sep. This is the first time with the kids, went when I was a nipper back in the 90's. Bet things have changed since then.

Yeah just a bit. I went in the 90's as well (1996) then went for first time with kids in 2012, and now we going back again. We're flying out on 20th August and back 7th September, my son was made up when one of the workers at Disney shouted Seagulls at him last time, when he was wearing his Brighton shirt.

 

[patchamalbion]

Berlin in May and nothing else booked yet but potentially going to a few festivals abroad in the summer.

 

[dwayne]

Miami/Bahamas - Feb
Bangkok/Koh Samui - Easter
Santorini - May bank holiday
Marbella - June
Miami / Rio / São Paolo / NYC - July
Capri / St Tropez - August
Maldives - December TBD

Love travelling.

 

[grubbyhands]

16 day motorcycle guided tour of Kerala, southern India in February.2 weeks working as back up mechanic in Basque region of Spain on a classic car rally to raise money for a local kids hospice at end of Sept. beginning Oct and hopefully a bit of time with the old girl somewhere hot just before the schol summer holidays. Gonna be a hard year methinks!

 

[banjo]

Had planned to go to Malaysia, but I now have to have a major operation so have sorted it with my company that I will use my annual holiday leave for the time off for the operation / recovery.

So my official answer is.......Hospital then home.

Good luck with the op.

 

[HovaGirl]

West Country, Sweden and South of France.

 

[willow147]

We've stayed there a few times, including 2 weeks there last Summer. Great hotel.

We stayed at the Wilderness Lodge 4 years ago, the experience then made us want to rebook the same hotel this time around. Loved the hotel and pretty much the whole experience. It was the kids first trip to Florida, in fact their first ever flight, which made the holiday that much better.

 

[The Modfather]

A week on the Isle of Wight

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Not too much of a recession on NSC judging by this thread!

 

[banjo]

A week on the Isle of Wight

Love the IOW.

 

[Hiney]

Week in Padstow, late July - camping
Week in St Ives, mid August - camping

More to be booked