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Being stuck at home has caused vacation drama.
For the past six or eight months I have been planning our fifth anniversary trip. I tend to take a long time to plan vacations like this to ensure we get the best deal.
Anyway, our trip has hit a small snag in that - DH's BFF is getting married in Sweden one month prior to our anniversary. I know that it makes most sense in combining the Sweden trip with our fifth anniversary trip but....well, for one thing, I want to go on our anniversary trip actually ON our anniversary but I am not sure how reasonable that is.
So - this is what we have narrowed our trips down to:
A. Go to Sweden for the wedding, then spend a week in Paris. We both love Paris but have been there several times. Rather than staying in the cheapest, cleanest place we can find (which is what we usually do), we would stay somewhere really nice. The down sides to this trip are: We have been to Paris several times, it would be a month prior to our anniversary, shopping becomes a bit of an issue, and we would really prefer to go to the beach. Up sides: It was be the least expensive option (which leaves more money for house renos), we love Paris (it really is muy romantic), they have the best restaurants (we love to eat), the weather will be relatively nice this time of year.
B. Go to Sweden for the wedding but take a second trip on our anniversary. We really want to go to the beach and have it narrowed down to one specific location. Down sides: Cost, taking two vacations so close together, not a place we have ever been before which has a tendency to make us both a tad stressed out at first. Upsides: Would actually use LESS vacation time due to our anniversary falling around Thanksgiving, we really want to go to the beach, it is somewhat of a once in a lifetime type of trip which is kind of what we are wanting.
I know "A" is more reasonable but....I would much rather take trip B. Actually, I would prefer to take both trips but.....
Re: Being stuck at home has caused vacation drama.
If you have the time off work and the money, might as well do your dream vacation!
That being said (and not knowing your dream destination), I would lean toward a modified trip A for myself, mainly so I could spend less of my time flying to and from Europe and more time traveling within the continent or relaxing at my destinations. Since you don't seem very enthusiastic about Paris, go someplace else you've never been after the wedding. Could you do a beach destination instead, though maybe not the one you originally had in mind?
Sunny - We have looked into going to Sweden, then heading to a European beach destination. However, most places in the Med are going to be too cold and any place that will actually be warm is WAY too expensive to get to from Sweden (most places would be cheaper if we flew directly from OKC) or take way too long to get there (for instance, it would take two to three days to go from Sweden to the Canary Islands or Sweden to Phuket). Stockholm's airport reminds me of OKC's - you can't get anywhere from there.
Ordinarily, we would just take two trips but the flights to Sweden are much more expensive than when we have gone in the past so I feel bad about the extra cost. Kind of.
Hmmmm........I like this response.....
We were talking about this last night. We already have our vacations for 2012 decided (but nothing booked) so we wouldn't be able to take the dream vacation until our seventh anniversary.
DH doesn't really care either way so I think we will watch the flights to Sweden and if they get too out of control, DH can go by himself. I am finding that packages to trip B are getting cheaper and cheaper as they get further out into the winter (which my travel agent said would happen) so I am going to wait it out. I do LOVE Paris and I truly hate being that close by and not at least spend a few nights but....I really want to go to place B.