Need help find destination/travel site for inexpensive summer family vacation.?
Question by missjerseygirl9: Need help find destination/travel site for inexpensive summer family vacation.?
My family would love to go on an exotic, exciting vacation, but we are on a very tight budget. We would very much like to go somewhere outside the US, but that may not be possible. We are a family of five and have enough frequent stays at Hilton for one/two nights (depending on things, maybe up to three) and frequent flyer miles, although scattered over several airlines. The children are 6, 10, and 14, so they have varied interests. We have had some “museum” vacations ad they’re really not for us. Camping is also not an option. Theme parks are good, although we live right by Busch Gardens so we tend to be a little theme-parked out. We would love to have a great vacation this year (or possibly next, in which case our budget would at least double, so more expensive ideas are okay), and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time!
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Answer by george omalley
try perx.com, travelzoo.com, travel2earth.org, and dargal.com, my family is big on travel because our mom works for continental arilines. have fun!
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If you have never been to Colorado Springs, Co., it is a great vacation spot. You can drive or ride a rail train to the top of Pikes Peak. You can visit the zoo, go to Seven Falls, Garden of the Gods. All of these things are just about in a ten mile radius from each other. Denver is only a few miles away as well as the Royal Gorge. AND… it is relatively inexpensive. My family and I have been to several vacation sites. We been back to Colorado Springs twice. Have a great time no matter where you go…and enjoy your family while their young.
Well, how about Europe? More specifially Turkey?
You live in Florida, so you got access to the charter carrier LTU. They are the cheapest way to get to Europe from southeastern USA, especially if you book the flight last minute.
http://www.ltu.com
From Germany it is very cheap to get to Turkey. Booked about 4-5 months in advance, flights start from 19 EUR one-way.
See http://www.skyscanner.net.
Turkey is definetely someting away from the U.S. Get the Lonely Planet guide book for Turkey to get you an idea on what to watch out for and on how to organise a trip.
Turkey in itself is a very inexpensive country, a single person can travel on 40 USD per day there easily. As a family, I expect you to need about 100-120 USD per day in Turkey. Your main expense would be hotel costs and food.
Alternatively I could recommend going to Egypt. If you book Egypt as a travel package, it is very expensive. But with a decent guidebook like Lonely Planet, Rough Guide or Let’s Go, Egypt is very easy and very cheap to do on your own. If you go for two weeks, you can snorkle and swim in the Red Sea, see Abu Simbel and Luxor, sail down the Nile from Aswan to Luxor on a Felucca, see the Pyramids and have the muezzin wake you up on to a Cairo morning of shopping at Hussayn Square. You wrote that “museum holidays” are not for you – well, in Egypt all “museums” are outdoors and require climbing up a mountain or crawling down into a cave.
Why go to a Egytian styled theme park when you can have the real thing?
For Egypt, you’ll need about 100-150 USD for your whole family per day. For 14 days, that is about 2000 USD plus costs of flight tickets to Egypt. Main cost will be entry fees to sights.
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Wow. That is gorgeous. I really kind of like the blurry people.
beautiful capture indeed..love the light, great snap
Wonderful shot Trey!
Nice colours and lighting.
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I love the colors!
sehr schön!!!
Sick shot!!!!! Love the angle on the castle.
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Great view, love the perspective! I ate lunch inside that castle 3 weeks ago today!
Very beautiful!!
I was about to say that it looked very Disneyesue and then I saw the tags. Great tonal range as usual.
This really should be a promo photo for Disneyworld. Amazing.
fucking sweet, as usual
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superb shot, stunning processing
nice shot, but for me the blurry people kinda ruin it. too distracting.
wow – that’s enchanting
So beautifully captured ….
Nicely done. Never seen this angle before. Excellent processing, as usual.
Wonderful angle.
amazing shot
That is amazing! Great shot!
Neat!
Good POV.
so nice
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ITA – Bello Scatto, Complimenti !
ENG – Very Nice Shot !
FRA – La Photo est très belle !
GER – Das Foto ist Sehr Schön !
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