Good place to take a short vacation?
 

Since my wife is getting laid off (yay auto industry) I'm sorta considering taking my tax refund and going on a week long vacation next month. Never gone anywhere. The only time I've left the tri-state area was when I went to west virginia on a school field trip.

I was kinda thinking Vegas might be fun. I could get a week stay in a decent hotel along with flight for $1200 for the two of us.

Amsterdam.
See you there.......

3-4 day cruise... great all you can eat food, warm beach or two...and you can gamble.

Now you're speaking my language.

Amsterdam just has weed and women. I'm married, and I'm not into drugs. But food... now there's something I can enjoy. I should have been looking into that instead of hotel vacations. I'd rather do something all inclusive. With everything going on the goal is to go there and just forget about everything for a while.

Our anniversary is on the 29th.. err well.. yeah.. married on leap year. :P So maybe it could be the honeymoon we never went on.

Just make sure that, after spending all this money, you are the one that gets laid off on this trip.

Doctor put her on Prozac. It's side effect is... ... ... it makes her horny.

Cruises are a lot cheaper than I thought. If you're willing to take a small inside cabin you can get them for $1200 for 2 people. Sounds good to me. Balconies scare the living crap out of me (fear of high unsafe places, like things with railing) and the only thing you do in your room is sleep.

The only problem is that I live in Ohio, and all the departure points are in Florida or California. I wonder if they have a place to stick your car if you drive.

Nahh, there are more departure points than that... I have a friend who is leaving on a carribean cruise from galveston, tx next week. Seems any state with a deep water port should have some departures, fewer for sure than from florida, but some.

Afaik, there will be a parking lot similar to long stay parkinglots at an airport.

Oh, and as long as you choose a major line, the food will not only be good, but exceptionally good... And all u can eat of whatever, steak, lobster, crab et.al.

a cruise ship on the Caribbean...

I looked into the parking thing, and drive time. Driving from Ohio to anywhere they make port is going to be expensive in gas, and consume large amounts of time. It would be cheaper to buy round trip tickets to Florida. I've got family in Indianapolis, and tickets are like $192 after taxes/fees per person round trip from there to Florida for a non-stop flight.

Estimated Time: 20 hours 1 minute Estimated Distance: 1284.75 miles

Yeah.. I don't think I want to drive. The fuel cost for that is $275 in my car round trip.

I'm thinking Royal Caribbean or Princess. They seem to be the best for 7 night cruises. Carnival seems to do more of the 3-4 night cruises.

You only live once.. so I might as well see the ocean before I die. And die, in a fiery plane crash, because I'm afraid of flying. I think I'd rather take that risk than ride Amtrak again. That sucked. My friend rode Amtrak recently, and on his way to NY he texted me saying "Now I know why you hate Amtrak. We've been broken down for 6 hours."

Yeah, in the EU I highly reccommend the railpass, as their trainsystem is great, but here in the states it is rubbish.

If you have health insurance I or know someone who has anxiety problems you should look to get a travel RX of xanex... A dr will happily prescribe it for the flight, and if you take it an hour before the flight, all will be well.