3 weeks bouncing around Europe a couple years ago and 3 weeks in the Pacific NW last year.
My normal vacations are about usually about 10 days. I work for a proprietary trading firm and essentially eat what I kill. I can take as much time off as I want, but I won’t get paid.
Ten days away from home, which spanned two weekends.
I generally like to take the last two weeks of the year off depending on how the holidays and weekends fall this has been as long as 17 days. I got shit the first year with one of those if you can be gone that long maybe we don’t need you but once it became standard for me to do I was left alone.
I delayed starting a job once for a month so I could enjoy a bit of a vacation but I didn’t count that or the time I got laid off and used the severance to take a three-month vacation before I started the next job I had lined up the day I was left off.
Aaarrggh. I didn’t RTFD, so I answered with the length of the vacations I used to take with my parents.
I have not had a paid vacation in nearly thirty years, so my correct answer should be zero.
Yeah, plus if you are gone too long, getting adjusted to being back at work is harder. But yes, the longer a vacation is the less meaningful the time off becomes.
Also, if you do two separate one week vacations then that is two 9 day vacations, 18 days total, vs one 16 day vacation for two consecutive weeks since you are including weekends.
I do wish I had more vacation though. I asked my employer if I could buy extra and they said they didn’t offer it. I’d even take unpaid, I don’t care.
For me I’d love to have a week off every two months. But I don’t have enough pto for that.
We try to do a long vacation at the beginning of the summer and then a shorter one at the end of the summer. What’s nice is we can use the one at the beginning of the summer to go to our “place” that we know we will enjoy and then the one at the end of the summer to try something new. One thing that works in my favor is that I accrue comp days related to all the travel I do, so I’m away from home a lot, but when I’m home I can get away from the office.
Took 3 weeks off back in 2013 and spent 17 days traveling around New Zealand. Longest vacation I ever took. Messed me up the rest of the year, ran short of vacation days a few months before I reloaded. Worked 10 consecutive weeks without a day off.
In the past 5 years, I have taken 3 two-week vacation trips, two to Israel and one to Germany (where our daughter did study abroad). There were a few one-week trips as well, but those mostly coincided with holidays and involved visiting family out-of-town.
Next year brings another two-week trip to Israel and probably a one-week trip to visit our son wherever he studies abroad (Italy, most likely).
I am on the “Executive” PTO plan at work, though I am no executive. I can take as much time off as is consistent with getting my work done, as long as my manager approves. Fortunately, I have a very easygoing boss. The downside for me and upside for the company is that there is no accumulated vacation time that the company has to pay me for if I leave.
ETA: Almost forgot 2 (!) ten-day Alaska cruises, paid for by my in-laws and my parents for their respective 50th anniversaries. I live a very fortunate life.
Until recently I would have said “7 days,” but a few months ago I realized that I’d become seriously burned out and I wound up taking 20 days off in June. At first it was going to be just two weeks, but my proposal wound up being due mid-week so I took the rest of that week off plus the following two weeks. I did a combo staycation/actual vacation (a few days in Cape Cod). I didn’t have that much paid time off so I wound up using 5 days of leave without pay, but it was totally worth it! 
That was an anomaly for me: generally I nickle-and-dime my leave, and prefer taking a day here or a few hours there to big chunks of time off. I have another exception coming up next month, though, when I go to Paris for a week.
I once traveled for 6 weeks, but I don’t think that counts in this poll, because I quit my job to do that, so I was not technically employed (altho, they hired me back when I returned to the States).
Longest vacation while still employed is 2 weeks. Typically, tho, one week at a time, sadly.
I just got back from my second-longest one - 21 days. My longest one was 28 days, when I went to Australia and New Zealand in early 1992. Usually, they’re two weeks or less, and yes, I am already planning next year’s (11 days).