Have you been on one? The “Club Med” type where one price covers everything, air fare, hotel, food, drink, etc. It sounds like a good idea. The only thing that I have found is on agent’s web sites. I’d like to hear from folks who have been on such a vacation.
When a working person takes leave from their job, it’s is “vacation” indicating that one has vacated one’s job…what is it called when we retired folks travel?
Been on one to a dive resort. We went with a group put together by our local dive shop.
We really enjoyed it and it was reasonably price competitive. It was nice to have everything handled.
However, by booking our own and cooking in our bungalow, we can stay two weeks instead of one for about the same money.
Spent my honeymoon at one of those Sandales places in Jamaica. It was “all-inculsive” as long as you wanted to stay at the resort itself. But if you want to see the country, you have to book a tour, maybe rent a car, and tip, tip, tip. Spent way more than we planned but at least we had a ton of fun.
Chrisbar
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[sarcasm] I am on a six-month packaged vacation right now! Greece, Italy, Turkey and side trips to the lovely Former Yugoslavia and the Persian Gulf!! [/sarcasm]
You don’t necessarily have to be working to take a vacation. “Vacation” (its root is “to vacate”) can mean you are taking leave from your normal routine, whatever that may be.
You can always be like the Brits, and call it “holiday.” You can also use words like “journey,” “travels,” “trip,” “stress break” and even “sabbatical.”
If you are retired and you want to drive your RV down to Florida for the winter months, you can always call it “snow birding.”