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If you have kids...or if you don't
What is your limit for time away for vacation? We have only gone away with the kids for more than a week once when we went to central England and London for 5 days each. We used to think our limit was around 8 days before we had kids because after the 8th day we would start to want to be back home mostly because we missed our dog. We still love our dog but now on vacation we are away with the kids and I definitely could have spent more time in England. And I really wish we had more time for our upcoming vacation to Hong Kong, it looks unlikely that we can move our flight so it will be 9 nights, 8 days and I would love two full-weeks which is impossible this time of year for us.
So what is your preference? We are likely doing Aruba next year and we will do 11 or 12 days for the first time ever.
Re: If you have kids...or if you don't
i'm not really sure what you mean-the length is based on the trip and work constraints. since we dont want kids it has nothing to do with that.
i miss my dog too but i wouldn't cut a vacay short for it. one of our trips to italy (in sept/oct 2010) was 19 nights. we go to cancun/rm every december for 10-14 days.
of course my preference would be for longer vacations.....maybe i'm missing the point of the question..........
We go for as long as we can without the kids missing too much school. In NJ there's a week in November when school is closed for 3 days and that has become our annual vacation week.
So if we tack the weekend before and after on we can take 9 days total.
So far we've only gone to Disney World as a family and 5 nights was enough.
We're doign 6 nights in Jamaica this November, then a Disney World/Disney Cruise vacation in November 2014. That trip will be a week total.
We plan to book a Med Cruise and that will be longer -- esp because of travel to and from the port-- so we might do that in the Summer, in which case we will have no restrictions.
H & I both get plenty of vacation days from work (20 days a yr + earned comp time) so we are not limited by that. It's more funds and the kids school/sport schedules.
3 weeks seems to be my limit. That's how long I went to Ireland and was really ready to go home by the end. Same with Kenya.
We planned our honeymoon for 3 weeks. Anything shorter than a week (if it's out of the country) is too short. If family is involved, 2-3 days!
We were away for a month in October with our daughter and it was great.
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we don't have a limit, it more depends on where and time off from work and school. i spent a month traveling out west with my son when he was 7 months old. we also did 3 weeks in hawaii with him when he was about 1 1/2. they are probably the two most. on average, we usually do a week, 7 nights i would say. He is a good traveler and adapts really well even with time changes. Or at least so far. I say go for it, you can always take a couple of days for down time if it's getting to be too much for them.
have fun!
Time off is really our biggest factor. I only get two weeks of vacation from work, and we usually prefer to go on a week long vacation twice a year rather than a two week long vacation once a year.
For example, last year, we went to Hawaii for a week in March, then Roatan for a week in September. This year, however, we are going to Italy for two weeks since it would be difficult to travel that far for any less amount of time.