Favorite Vacations

[Cinnamon115]

What is everyone's favorite vacation they have gone on or somewhere they want to go? One of my all time favorites is the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. It's pretty much a giant sandbox. I had so much fun there!

 

[toothless]

centreparcs in penrith;england, to be fair ive never been on any other holiday apart from when i was a toddler but centreparcs is amazing, you live in the middle of the woods in a wooden lodge and it has a barbecue out the back which we gladly used,you get all sorts of wild life coming up to the patio doors and you dont see many people even though there were over 5000 people staying at the time we went.
i went with two support staff and my mum who had broken her collar bone just 5 days earlier.
it has many things onsite including a huge tropical place with a tropical swimming pool/slides etc which is free to use and you can rent out bikes of all kinds including special needs bikes and there is a minibus for people like me who are very disabled in terms of getting around [for me it is both because of my autism and my physical disability].

i bought an awesome teddy bear from there which i like to hug,it reminds me of a very happy time:

 

[xudo]

Disneyland Paris

centreparcs

I've always wanted to go to centerparcs!

 

[Mia]

My favourite vacation was two months by myself in Italy, where I rented a flat and spent my time in museums. Took trains to Rome and Venice, to go to museums and the vatican museum, walk the roman built roads.

In an area near the vatican there were stoneworkers repairing the cobblestone roads that I watched for hours, using hand made tools similar to the ones used by the romans. There were sculptors in open shops cleaning and repairing statues by hand. Gilders putting gold leaf on ancient picture frames and repairing them. Marble workers, cleaning and repairing statues, it was facinating to see and experience.

Another favourite was two weeks of hiking, canoeing and portaging into the interior of algonquin park.

 

[toothless]

Disneyland Paris



I've always wanted to go to centerparcs!

save up for it xudo,i strongly recommend it.
i also particulary recommend the one in penrith,its a great area you can drive to the big sainsburys which isnt that far and get all your food there instead of going to the store onsite which is a ripoff,theres a place nearby the site called the llama karma cafe,they have llamas and other animals out the back and they sell lots of llama products or hippyish products,i bought a llama ornament made out of llama fur and my mum got me a canvas shopping bag that says 'i love llamas' on with a picture silluhette of a llama,oh and the coffee is great to

centreparcs is a great experience and i think everyone should try it once,especially autistics as its very accomodating towards special needs,i saw many of us there.
the only downside is you cant keep your car onsite,its got to be in a car park around two mile away,not good if you cant do much walking for whatever reason,we had to wait over an hour sometimes for the minibus to take us from the car park to the lodge,but i found out if you book the disability adapted lodge you get your own parking spot outside your lodge,we tried parking outside the lodge and the next thing we knew a moaning security guy complained to my support staff to move it.

its very safe onsite,and theres even a tv channel where you can watch the badgers sets,the foxes etc onsite,its a wonderful holiday.its expensive though.i think i brough something like 300 pound for spending money and it all went quite quickly.
if you want to rent the bikes it cost something like 200 for a returnable deposit type thing if i remember correctly,i couldnt afford it had already spent loads in the onsite shops.

 

[toothless]

also,what was your experience of disneyland paris @xudo ?
are you a disney fan to,did it live up to expectations?

my mum and dad took the entire family last year in march [except they never told me they were going until near the time as they 'assumed' id not be able to afford it which was BS and im still angry with them now for organising a family and family in law holiday at the place id wanted to go to since a child but enough about my grudges].
anyway,they all got sick for their entire stay,my mother even got sick in the restaurant over her food. :O
my first thoughts upon hearing they hardly got to see much of disneyland were 'thats because you buggered off without me' but i really felt bad for thinking that.

my parents said it was rubbish and my mum never wanted to go anyway but i kind of expect that coming from two old fashioned 60 odd year olds who think cartoons are for children.

i am planning on going to disney world in florida with my mother and support staff who can drive so we can rent a car,not sure if ill be able to afford it by next year if i save £40 a week but its on the plan anyway.

 

[xudo]

also,what was your experience of disneyland paris @xudo ?
are you a disney fan to,did it live up to expectations?

my parents said it was rubbish and my mum never wanted to go anyway but i kind of expect that coming from two old fashioned 60 odd year olds who think cartoons are for children.

i am planning on going to disney world in florida with my mother and support staff who can drive so we can rent a car,not sure if ill be able to afford it by next year if i save £40 a week but its on the plan anyway.

Yeah I'm a Disney fan, and it's fantastic there. I first went on my 16th birthday, as we were on holiday as a family in Paris the same week as my birthday. The second time was again a family holiday when I was around 18, but we actually stayed at the park. The last time I went was 2015 with my sister, her boyfriend and one of our friends. We went with Ferris coaches, and it was around £270 each for the coach there and back, park tickets for the two days, ferry and hotel.

It's always been better than my expectations, and I've never had any problems with the food or anything. The other people there...that's a different issue. We literally didn't know what to do with ourselves at breakfast the first day, as it was a buffet like set out so you could walk around...but there were a lot of people from other countries there and none of them were queuing. Seems ok to most people...but we British just don't know what to do when there's not a nice, orderly queue We also found that there were quite a few foreigners who didn't seem to grasp that staring is rude. One teenage girl with her family were in front of me and my friend in a queue for one ride who genuinely turned around with her video camera (I think she thought she was being reaallllly surreptitious) and filmed us. With all my piercings, I'm used to the occasional look, but this was beyond. I think it was also because my friend is trans (mtf) and she was transitioning at the time but was only part way through laser hair removal so some of her skin you could see there was like a '5 O'clock shadow'. Yeah, other than that it was fab.

I'd love to go to the one in America, but it's partly the cost and obviously partly I'm afraid of flying I'd love to go back to the one in Paris, but I wouldn't go back if my sister's boyfriend would be there (he's an arse****) so it's not likely. Plus my anxiety is so much worse these days, and my husband hates themeparks and crowds so going with him is a no too

 

[Cinnamon115]

I've been to the Disneyland in California, and I didn't find it that great. Though that is mostly because I've been to Disney World a lot and Disneyland is very similar to the Magic Kingdom. There's also less walking space and I felt boxed in when walking around. But I did see an awesome light show called World of Color and that was the highlight of the trip.

 

[Butterfly88]

I like when my parents and I go on vacation in Roscoe, NY. It's a nice small little town. I may want to move there one day.

 

[puzzlingbill]

My most memorable vacations involve amazing scenery.

At Denali National Park in Alaska, saw the big mountain with no cloud cover. I believe it's the highest mountain in the world from base to top. My first reaction was that's too big to be a mountain.

At Monument Valley in Arizona, my wife and I watched a lightning storm move across the valley, lighting up the stone monuments from behind.

Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico is the most amazing cavern I've seen, and I'll never forget sitting at the cave entrance at dusk and watching two million bats exit the cave to go out for the night to hunt (took 45 minutes).

Yosemite National Park in California is awe-inspiring. Inspiration Point, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, Half Dome -- everywhere you turn there's another amazing view.

 

[Butterfly88]

My most memorable vacations involve amazing scenery.

At Denali National Park in Alaska, saw the big mountain with no cloud cover. I believe it's the highest mountain in the world from base to top. My first reaction was that's too big to be a mountain.

At Monument Valley in Arizona, my wife and I watched a lightning storm move across the valley, lighting up the stone monuments from behind.

Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico is the most amazing cavern I've seen, and I'll never forget sitting at the cave entrance at dusk and watching two million bats exit the cave to go out for the night to hunt (took 45 minutes).

Yosemite National Park in California is awe-inspiring. Inspiration Point, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, Half Dome -- everywhere you turn there's another amazing view.

Cool! I've seen some cool animals in zoos. Did you take that photo?

 

[puzzlingbill]

Cool! I've seen some cool animals in zoos. Did you take that photo?

I wish I'd taken it . I found the photo on a website. I have the impression that many people have seen pictures of Monument Valley in advertisements but didn't know the name of the place.

 

[Aeolienne]

My favourite holiday ever was in the Stuhbai Alps in Austria, aged 11. It was the first time I saw the Alps up close and the second time I'd been on a plane. Fond though I was (and still am) of my familiar hiking ground the English Lake District I had to admit that the Alps looked just like mountains are meant to be - jagged peaks, patches of snow on the summits even in summer and chalets surrounded by meadows of flowers. Best of all, I beat my brother at chess - the only time I've ever done that!

More recently I was rather chuffed to discover an Austrian coffeehouse in Islington, north London, where I was able to savour anew the nostalgic tastes of Gulaschsuppe and Kaiserschmarren: WELCOME

As for where I would like to go, see my contribution to the "Ten Places to Visit" thread in this forum:
Ten Places to Visit

 

[Danny 74]

A day trip to margate.....!