Your help is needed!
As you know A. is in grad school studying elementary education. She also works full time and volunteers one afternoon a week at an after school program. Her grad program is designed for working adults, which means the classes are Thursday nights and Saturdays. This means she can’t ever do anything! No weekend trips, no tagging along with me to conferences…zip nada, zilch, zero travel for a whole year.
Her classes end in December and since she started, I’ve been telling her we’ll take a trip when she’s done. She needs something to look forward to when she feels discouraged or left out through out this year. Plus our last real vacation, by this I mean, true vacation, not a couple days tagged onto a work-related trip, was a two week trip to Alaska in summer 2005. We saved up for a year and paid for it in cash (a first for us). We started buying sperm shortly after we got home and have not stopped…have not gone on another vacation. Do ya think there’s a correlation? (Just to be clear, the trip I am taking to Florida next week is a work trip that I extended, and A. can not join me…school, but I do realize it is a mini vaca for me.)
In visualizing our trip we’ve tried to keep our finances very much at the forefront of the planning, our baby making and house down payment saving plans pretty much leave nothing left over for a vacation fund. But we are determined to make this work. Our ideal would be a Caribbean beach vacation, and we also though a week at our favorite retreat spot would be wonderful, and less expensive (but the opposite of a beach vaca). After looking at our favorite Aruba destination (where we exchanges rings, the first time) I started wondering if I could find any of what we’re looking for domestically (read: cheaper)? So I started looking here, which made me dream here, only to realize we’d be going at the wrong time of year. Then last night we tossed in the idea of Belize. And I think I am in love! Per usual, our taste is quite expensive, so this is where you come in. I am appealing to my internet friends for suggestions of where you would go if you were taking a beach vacation sometime between late December and mid February? Please share beach destinations you’ve enjoyed…have dreamt about…places you’ve heard about…any place warm and worth a visit, won’t you please?
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March 25, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Jennifer
For a beach vacay on the cheap I like Dominican Republic. The beaches at Punta Cana are lovely.
March 25, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Jennie
E. I have been looking into homeexchange and it is a great way to get a great vacation for a little price. There are many different ones but have used this one http://www.HomeExchange.com it helps to do some reasearch on home exchange in general. Good Luck.
March 25, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Lo
Co and I had a wonderful honeymoon in the Virgin Islands — http://www.sandcastleonthebeach.com — it’s lesbian-owned, beautiful, comfortable, and if you’re into outdoor activities (which I recall you are) there are many opportunities. Email us if you have questions. The resort is quite affordable, the airfare is the killer but you can look for deals.
March 26, 2007 at 4:57 am
Jude
I wish I had suggestions but I haven’t really been anywhere! I too long for a beach vacation but we are never able to come up with the money - we’d probably only be able to afford it in the middle of August.
That said, we did have a lot of fun for a couple of days in Key West, and there is a women-owned resort there that is actually pretty affordable as far as Key West goes. And there are a lot of beaches, although most of them are owned by hotels which is incredibly annoying.
Other than that, I have no experience with beach destinations… but I would like to!!
March 26, 2007 at 6:33 pm
e.
thanks everyone!
Jennifer- the DR looks great and affordable! Do you recommend any hotel in particular?
Lo- I would LOVE to go to St. Croix….have wanted to for soooooo long, thanks for reminding me about Sand Castle and letting me know that it is worth it! I have looked at their web site in the past. If we go that is were we’d stay.
Jennie- The homexchange thing is a cool idea, but our current “home” may be a hard sell. A really good thing to keep in mind for the future!
Jude- We did look into Key West a little. I’d love to chat more about what you thought. I got the impression that there wasn’t much of a beach.
Anyone else want to weigh in?
March 26, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Jennifer
Email me and we can chat vacation spots.