# Where would you take a paid vacation?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 20, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812 "2010-02-20T22:15:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@heavybuhbuh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavybuhbuh)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/1 "2010-02-20T22:15:58Z")
If you won a sweepstakes that provided an all expense paid trip to anyplace in the world for 2 weeks also covering any salary you maybe losing during this time off - where would you go and why there??? Do you choose comfort? Do you choose adventure? Do you choose educational? Do you go someplace within your own country?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/2 "2010-02-20T22:20:56Z")
If I had to choose, I’d say Australia. I don’t know where, specifically, but I’ve always wanted to go to Coober Pedy. Yes, I know it’s hot. And of course, I’d like to go to the beaches. Might need more than two weeks.
But I’d _really_ like it if I was sent on an adventure without knowing where it would be. Tell me to pack for hot or cold, put me on a plane, wake me when I get there.
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### Author:  [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/3 "2010-02-20T22:23:10Z")
I’d choose the Maldive Islands and go swimming, snorkelling and sailing and relax. I’ve always wanted to go and one day hope to.
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### Author:  [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/4 "2010-02-20T22:34:11Z")
Tokyo, staying in a spacious apartment with a breathtaking view of the city. It’s an all expenses paid trip, so I’m not going to sleep in a hostel with six other people in my room. I have no idea what I’d do, but it will include walking around the city and exploring the urban environment. I plan on doing this someday, except I’ll probably be staying in a hostel with six other people in my room.
A close runner up would be renting a car and driving from Barcelona to Rome along the Mediterranean. I’ll probably do this trip as well, but by train/bus since I expect international car rentals are probably quite expensive.
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### Author:  [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/5 "2010-02-20T22:45:02Z")
They’re paying everything? Salary too? OK, let me think . . .hmmm . . .
Ah! I know. [The Galapagos Islands](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands)! That’s somewhere I’ve always wanted to go (but doubt I’ll ever be able to afford).
We’re not limited to one destination during our two week adventure, are we? So, having spent, say, three or four days in the Galapagos, I’d go from there to Tahiti or Somoa for another three or four days. I’d finish off by going to N.E. Australia ([Great Barrier Reef](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_barrier_reef), [Daintree Rain Forest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daintree_Rainforest) and much, much more - or so I’ve been told).
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/6 "2010-02-20T23:12:42Z")
New Zealand. Learn about Maori culture and go wine-tasting. 2 weeks might not be enough.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/7 "2010-02-20T23:22:00Z")
Perth Australia … one of my bestest friends married and moved there and I really miss she and her son =(
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/8 "2010-02-20T23:32:24Z")
I’d summit Kilimanjaro. No, wait. Everest Base Camp. I don’t think I’m up for the whole thing, so the base camp will do.
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### Author:  [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/9 "2010-02-20T23:35:58Z")
Erm, why go beyond “all expenses paid” to cover salary paid? I mean, “all expenses paid” is attractive enough and so it’s not as if “2 weeks paid vacation” is something to get excited over because we already get 4 weeks paid in Australia and plenty of other countries.
There’s lots of places I’d want to go, but 2 weeks isn’t enough to get a real sense of a place… because it’s such a short time I’d go back to Italy for the 2nd time, specifically Cinque Terre.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/10 "2010-02-20T23:45:07Z")
> [@mecaenas](#):
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> it’s not as if “2 weeks paid vacation” is something to get excited over because we already get 4 weeks paid in Australia and plenty of other countries.
¡Bastardo grande! :mad:
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### Author:  [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/11 "2010-02-20T23:50:02Z")
Anywhere in the world? Lots of choices. I’d have to make a list, but would start with:
Socotra
Tristan da Cunha
Mauritius
Nauru
The South Pole
Sala y Gomez
Clipperton Island
Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso
Madagascar
Bhutan
Lord Howe Island
Pitcairn Island
Kerguelen Islands
Marion Island
Crozet Islands
Trouble is, 2 weeks wouldn’t be enough time to get to (and back from) most of these places.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/12 "2010-02-20T23:54:32Z")
Botswana and / or Namibia. I don’t think I’d be doing anything too luxurious once I got there (I want to see lots and lots of wild animals, and camping is just fine with me), but just getting there is prohibitively expensive on my current salary.
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### Author:  [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/13 "2010-02-21T00:22:59Z")
Too many choices:
Algeria
Tajikistan
Yemen (though I’ve been there before)
Iran (same)
Cameroon
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/14 "2010-02-21T00:37:30Z")
Is it a trip for two? If so, I’m taking Mr. S to the British Isles. He’s always wanted to go.
Just me? Hell, I don’t know how fabulous a trip it would be if I’m by myself. ☹
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/15 "2010-02-21T00:39:04Z")
Anywhere in the world? Assuming magic can overcome the political problems with such a trip, I’d say North Korea. I have no doubt that such a trip would be depressing at best, extremely dangerous at worst, but what can I say? The lure of the forbidden, and the opportunity to see into a closed society so absolutely different from what I can imagine, intrigues me.
Assuming I’d have to go someplace legal… hm. I’d love to do Scotland or Ireland but I could conceivably do those on my own; they’re not the most expensive locations. It’d be better to go someplace where an interpreter and guide would be needed. But two weeks is awfully short. I’d have to do some research but I think trekking around someplace remote and obscure would be fascinating. Say, the steppe in Mongolia.
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/16 "2010-02-21T01:28:49Z")
Two weeks in Serengeti National Park.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/17 "2010-02-21T01:44:12Z")
Middle-Earth. Or New Zealand, as the next best thing.
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### Author:  [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/18 "2010-02-21T02:10:59Z")
Vegas baby!
Wait, . . . gambling money is an expense, right?
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/19 "2010-02-21T02:31:58Z")
Iran.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-take-a-paid-vacation/529812/20 "2010-02-21T02:40:30Z")
Antarctica. It’s one of the most expensive places to get to.
After that, maybe the Chernobyl area as [this website](http://www.kiddofspeed.com/) has always intrigued me (though some have said bits of it are not quite up to snuff).
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