Holiday help needed
11 January 2006, 07:38 PM
#1
Scooby Senior
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Next door to the WiFi connection
Posts: 16,293
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Holiday help needed
OK guys/gals, Not showing off here, well OK I am 
lol but to alot of you its not much money anyhow but my boss approached me today and said that this year I shall be completing 10 years with the company (not sure if thats a good thing or not) and as a thank you I shall be awarded a holiday of my choice to the value of £2500.... Its a fair lot to me thats for sure Now Im not exactly flush this year so cant be saying £2500 alone on flights and I'll pay for hotels etc as I'll only have about £1000 myself to chuck about and thats going to be needed in spending money.
My main headache though is I cant work out where to go, any suggestions. Dont want the usual boring Spain/Portugal/Greece etc as I can do last minute holidays for £300 each anytime I wanted. so 14 nights away. nothing much more than £1250pp (yes I have to take the misses, what a shame
) Mexico is a no no I presume as theyre rebuilding after all the damn hurricanes this year.
Id love to do Fiji but struggling to find anything, for example go on Expedia.co.uk and I have to look for a date that I can fly on rather than just say dont care when but want to go from here to here.
Anytime after April too as the missses doesnt get this years holidays til then.
Cheers scoobynetters. Canne' wait
lol but to alot of you its not much money anyhow but my boss approached me today and said that this year I shall be completing 10 years with the company (not sure if thats a good thing or not) and as a thank you I shall be awarded a holiday of my choice to the value of £2500.... Its a fair lot to me thats for sure Now Im not exactly flush this year so cant be saying £2500 alone on flights and I'll pay for hotels etc as I'll only have about £1000 myself to chuck about and thats going to be needed in spending money. My main headache though is I cant work out where to go, any suggestions. Dont want the usual boring Spain/Portugal/Greece etc as I can do last minute holidays for £300 each anytime I wanted. so 14 nights away. nothing much more than £1250pp (yes I have to take the misses, what a shame
) Mexico is a no no I presume as theyre rebuilding after all the damn hurricanes this year. Id love to do Fiji but struggling to find anything, for example go on Expedia.co.uk and I have to look for a date that I can fly on rather than just say dont care when but want to go from here to here.
Anytime after April too as the missses doesnt get this years holidays til then.
Cheers scoobynetters. Canne' wait
11 January 2006, 08:27 PM
#3
Scooby Senior
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Next door to the WiFi connection
Posts: 16,293
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
lol. well I wouldnt mind more pay but who wouldnt, I get paid enough I suppose. cant complain too much but in all seriousness I just cant make my mind up where to go.
Anyone been to Rio? Im put off but what I hear about too much crime etc.
Anyone been to Rio? Im put off but what I hear about too much crime etc.
11 January 2006, 08:46 PM
#6
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Texas - It's BIG!
Posts: 2,105
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Dubai would be my tip, depending on what you are after.
For 1250 each, you'd get flights and some of the best accomadation in the world. Very hot, very sunny, great beaches.
Otherwise, try the Maldives, you'll struggle to spend money whilst you are there, and heard it's still cheap after the tsunami. Same for Bali. Thailand would be a good idea as again, it's very, very cheap once you're there.
For 1250 each, you'd get flights and some of the best accomadation in the world. Very hot, very sunny, great beaches.
Otherwise, try the Maldives, you'll struggle to spend money whilst you are there, and heard it's still cheap after the tsunami. Same for Bali. Thailand would be a good idea as again, it's very, very cheap once you're there.
11 January 2006, 08:57 PM
#7
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Jun 1998
Posts: 1,198
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If you've not been before then California fly-drive. Fly into LA, a couple of days in Santa Monica or Santa Barbara to relax by the sea. Then drive through the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas, stay a few days, enjoy some night-life, see the Hoover Dam and maybe the Grand Canyon. Then enjoy a superb drive through the bleak and beautiful Death Valley before seeing the lovely Yosemite National Park, arranging some accomodation to the west and east of the Sierra Nevada to break your journey. Then cut west and pick up the Pacific Coast Highway, perhaps spending a couple of days in Monterey as you drive north. Conclude your holiday with a few days in San Fransisco before flying home.
Gary.
Gary.
Trending Topics
11 January 2006, 10:11 PM
#9
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Deepest Darkest Dorset!!
Posts: 10,011
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like
on
1 Post
Originally Posted by GCollier
If you've not been before then California fly-drive. Fly into LA, a couple of days in Santa Monica or Santa Barbara to relax by the sea. Then drive through the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas, stay a few days, enjoy some night-life, see the Hoover Dam and maybe the Grand Canyon. Then enjoy a superb drive through the bleak and beautiful Death Valley before seeing the lovely Yosemite National Park, arranging some accomodation to the west and east of the Sierra Nevada to break your journey. Then cut west and pick up the Pacific Coast Highway, perhaps spending a couple of days in Monterey as you drive north. Conclude your holiday with a few days in San Fransisco before flying home.
Gary.
Gary.
This is the Hoover damn from the plane that took us to the Canyon, that little bit of concrete is 1/4 mile wide!!!!
Last edited by RON; 11 January 2006 at 10:20 PM.
11 January 2006, 11:02 PM
#10
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 774
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by davegtt
lol. well I wouldnt mind more pay but who wouldnt, I get paid enough I suppose. cant complain too much but in all seriousness I just cant make my mind up where to go.
Anyone been to Rio? Im put off but what I hear about too much crime etc.
Anyone been to Rio? Im put off but what I hear about too much crime etc.
I've been there not as bad as you think
jusy dont wear flash watch, have bulging wallet, camera round neck etc..
and it's nearly carnival time!!!!!!!!!!!
12 January 2006, 09:20 AM
#11
Scooby Senior
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Next door to the WiFi connection
Posts: 16,293
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Cheers for the suggestions so far, I was thinking of doing a fly drive, not sure if the misses will agree to that though, her idea is get on a beach and sit there all day. She needs a tan before shes happy to do much else on the holiday...lol
New Zealand, whats that like?
New Zealand, whats that like?
12 January 2006, 09:24 AM
#13
£30 worth of tanning salon time = fly drive holiday of your dreams 
Better yet, pay for her to go to bournemouth for a couple of weeks on the beach, then go do whatever holiday you want with the rest
Dont forget to send her a postcard.
Better yet, pay for her to go to bournemouth for a couple of weeks on the beach, then go do whatever holiday you want with the rest
Dont forget to send her a postcard.
12 January 2006, 09:32 AM
#14
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Some country and western
Posts: 13,488
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Dunk
Hope you've put a bit away for when your P11D comes in
D
D
Cool.
12 January 2006, 10:35 AM
#19
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: same time, different place
Posts: 11,313
Likes: 0
Received 4 Likes
on
2 Posts
Originally Posted by davegtt
New Zealand, whats that like?
12 January 2006, 10:37 AM
#20
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Swindon
Posts: 69
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Can defo agree with vegas / hoover dam / grand canyon etc - fantastic place. You can base in vegas (hotels are cheap as chips) and alot of tourist things within an hours distance etc
12 January 2006, 10:39 AM
#21
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: essex, then chongqing, china and now essex again
Posts: 2,568
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Dunk
Hope you've put a bit away for when your P11D comes in
D
D
how about cuba?
12 January 2006, 10:56 AM
#23
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: There is only one God - Elvis!
Posts: 8,328
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by davegtt
p.s. Oldham is my favorite place on earth. The mighty latics are there and its my original and only home
As well as great nightlife
Been here for 10 years now! -love the place
12 January 2006, 11:05 AM
#24
Scooby Senior
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Next door to the WiFi connection
Posts: 16,293
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
And thats not even mentioning the friendly northerners eh Chief
OK Flights do seem to be the main problem with getting anywhere too far away I suppose, might be possible in a package holiday from a brochure I suppose.
Just been having a gander at the Maldives but need to have something to do apart from Scuba Diving. Couldnt bare being stranded on a "paradise beach" for 2 weeks bored out of my head.
Not many helpful web sites about, Just want to be able to say fly from London on this day, dont care where find me something and price it up. Anyone with any decent links like to share?
OK Flights do seem to be the main problem with getting anywhere too far away I suppose, might be possible in a package holiday from a brochure I suppose.
Just been having a gander at the Maldives but need to have something to do apart from Scuba Diving. Couldnt bare being stranded on a "paradise beach" for 2 weeks bored out of my head.
Not many helpful web sites about, Just want to be able to say fly from London on this day, dont care where find me something and price it up. Anyone with any decent links like to share?
12 January 2006, 11:10 AM
#25
BANNED
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Jasey@Work
Posts: 2,507
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
12 January 2006, 11:14 AM
#26
http://www.lastminute.com/site/trave.../homepage.html
Pop more than £1000 in the price box and I'm sure there will be some innovative suggestions.
New Zealand, Australia and South Africa are on my "To Visit" list
Pop more than £1000 in the price box and I'm sure there will be some innovative suggestions.
New Zealand, Australia and South Africa are on my "To Visit" list
Last edited by SJ_Skyline; 12 January 2006 at 11:15 AM. Reason: FFS Jase, that's twice in two days! :razz:
12 January 2006, 11:20 AM
#27
BANNED
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Jasey@Work
Posts: 2,507
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by SJ_Skyline
Last edited by SJ_Skyline : Today at 11:15. Reason: FFS Jase, that's twice in two days! 
12 January 2006, 11:22 AM
#28
Scooby Regular
Hi Dave
My dad has just gone to the Bahamas for 12 weeks working on a film, he has never been before and said the place is lovely, he's in Nassal (spelt wrong probably)
He doesnt want to come back lol
Good luck in finding your Dream Holiday
Kaz
My dad has just gone to the Bahamas for 12 weeks working on a film, he has never been before and said the place is lovely, he's in Nassal (spelt wrong probably)
He doesnt want to come back lol
Good luck in finding your Dream Holiday
Kaz
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Uncle Creepy
Other Marques
43
27 December 2015 04:02 PM
robbie1988
Wanted
2
13 September 2015 09:25 AM
Scooby-Doo 2
Wheels And Tyres For Sale
1
09 September 2015 06:51 PM