# What's a dream holiday for someone who lives on an idyllic Pacific or Carribbean island? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463 "2011-11-10T02:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/21 "2011-11-10T16:20:57Z")
One of my college was from Hawaii. She hated, hated, hated beaches, hot temperature and anything tropical. She liked ski resorts and shopping malls. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/22 "2011-11-10T16:22:32Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Vegas Baby!! Truer than you might imagine! We went to Hawaii five years ago, and whenever we would mention we were from Las Vegas, the locals would look at us amazed and say, “And you came here?!” Apparently Las Vegas is the number one destination tourist attraction for Hawaiians and they found it odd that we would want to leave Las Vegas to come to Hawaii. And it is quite true - there are lots and lots of Hawaiians who live here, and far more who visit regularly. There are daily non-stop flights from Hawaii to Las Vegas, and if you ever want to have that Hawaiian feel in Vegas, just go the the old California Hotel/Casino in the downtown area - that seems to be the hotel of choice for most visitors from the islands. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/23 "2011-11-10T16:35:14Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > She liked ski resorts and shopping malls. I often joke that when my former boss goes on vacation, he goes to places that are 10,000 feet above sea level, while I like to go places that are 1 foot above sea level. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/24 "2011-11-10T17:16:17Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I often joke that when my former boss goes on vacation, he goes to places that are 10,000 feet above sea level, while I like to go places that are 1 foot above sea level. I fancy places 40 feet under sea level myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/25 "2011-11-10T17:30:46Z")
Here in sunny Florida my dream holiday is somewhere in the hills from the low, pastoral hills of England through the rolling hills of Upstate New York all the way to the mountains of the Rockies. Anywhere but flat, hot, muggy Florida. I don’t have any interest in the Caribbean at all. Although I guess with the right girl and enough alcohol I wouldn’t mind a cruise. (In fact, forget the cruise!) ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/26 "2011-11-10T19:19:00Z")
My second favourite advert ever. A man is sitting in a pub, watching the barman pour a pint of [advertised beer]. The camera switches between the man (young, handsome, well-groomed and neatly turned out in smart casuals), the pub (dark wood, low beams) and the beer. The only discordant note in all this is the soundtrack. Instead of pub noises, we have birdcalls and the occasional swishing sound. As the pint is served, cut to a tropical beach scene; semicircular cove, pristine white sand verging clear blue water, with jungle inland. In the middle of the cove is a yacht. Cut again to the deck of the yacht, where a tanned woman in a brief bikini carries a tall iced drink to a man sleeping on a hammock in the shade. He rouses, and we see it is the man in the pub. The man sits up and takes the drink. “Thanks love,” he said. “I’ve just had the most _marvellous_ dream. There I was, in the pub, and the barman was pouring me a pint of beer…” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/27 "2011-11-10T20:38:12Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What a great question, really. > > I mean when you’re livin’ on sponge cake and watchin’ the sun bake all of them tourists covered in oil, what do you do to get away from it all? > [@Sunspace](#): > > Antarctica. 🙂 You can still get a sun burn there! 🙂 > **[Antarctica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica)** > > Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ⓘ)\[note 1\] is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).... > [@](#): > > Sunburn is often a health issue as the snow surface reflects almost all of the ultraviolet light falling on it. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/28 "2011-11-10T21:13:20Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I can’t answer for the Caribbean or Pacific, but “island syndrome” is a well-known phenomenon, a sort of claustrophobia suffered by people who have recently moved to an island and who occasionally get overwhelmed by this feeling of “OMG, the farthest I can drive from my house without taking a ferry is about 100km, aaaaargh!” I imagine it’s more likely to strike someone in Hierro than in Tenerife, simply on account of their relative sizes. > > People from the Balearic and Canary Islands take short vacations going shopping to the mainland, and their dream vacations usually don’t include any beaches (well, the ones at home). I understand those from Ibiza don’t normally bother much with going clubbing in Parts Abroad, either… Last summer I spent a month on the island of Menorca. Met many locals… some of them called it Alcatraz… complaining they can’t ever leave. After awhile I began to understand. If I were to live in Europe I’d rather live in Barcelona or Paris and go to the island only for a getaway. Living on it would get boring. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/29 "2011-11-10T21:52:31Z")
I lived in Aceh, Indonesia for a little over 2 years. It’s not exactly tropical paradise, but there was a small island about an hour away that came close. Most weekends, we’d go there and sit on the beach with a beer and a book. For vacations we would usually go to the city, either Singapore or Kuala Lumpur for shopping, eating out, movies, and museums. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/30 "2011-11-10T22:07:04Z")
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Rock fever, as it is called, hit in my 20s and I promptly moved to the Pacific Northwest. I wanted to live somewhere cooler, less hot and sunny, but still near the ocean. Never a landlocked state. When you’re from a “paradise” or popular tourist location, you do not see it that way. You go to work, school, home, the bank, or shopping just like anyone else anywhere does. You know where the touristy places are and you generally stay away from them. (I never went to a Waikiki beach with the purpose of sunbathing and swimming until I was 32.) Moreover, it’s not idyllic to you, because, well, it’s objectively not. Crime happens anywhere and everywhere. Hawaii feels the effects of shit weather and bad economies and high costs of living and most every bad thing everyone else sees. What **DMark** said about Vegas for Hawaiians is accurate, though I’m not a huge fan of the place myself. I do notice that a lot of us who’ve moved away will happily return to Hawaii to get married, but will honeymoon elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/31 "2011-11-10T22:24:55Z")
I live in Antigua, West Indies. I don’t get rock fever. Like many people here we really enjoy where we live so why go anywhere else on holiday. It’s safe, it’s warm, it’s friendly, we’re \*\*glad \*\*when it rains, not much happens. A friend just got back from holiday in Denmark, his family stayed for six weeks, he was back after a week - wanted to spend his holiday at home diving and fishing and generally “liming” which is hanging out or having the craic \*\*An Gadaí \*\* Caribbean people do go to New York, there are generally relatives there and England too or shopping in Puerto Rico. A Martinique friend once said to me, in Martinique I am a king - in France I am some black guy. Ideal holiday for me would be a transatlantic crossing, or any long distance blue water sailing - an even smaller space! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/32 "2011-11-10T22:53:21Z")
\*Takes note to arrange a houseswap holiday with \*\*Bam Boo Gut \*\*at some stage. \*🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463/33 "2011-11-10T22:55:51Z")
My Timeshare in Key west has people who live in Hawaii coming over regularly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-dream-holiday-for-someone-who-lives-on-an-idyllic-pacific-or-carribbean-island/602463.md?page=1)