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Original poster

To ask, what the longest length of time you have been away on a holiday?

113 replies

NextToTheRadio · 05/03/2023 00:14

I'm going away soon for 14 days. I've never been away for this length of time before. It's usually been between 2 and 10 days.

What's the longest time you have been on holiday for ?

OP posts:
Pointlessuser · 05/03/2023 00:18

About 3 weeks for our honeymoon, would love to do that again but no way could we afford it

youngestisapsycho · 05/03/2023 00:19

4 weeks to NZ…

youngestisapsycho · 05/03/2023 00:20

But regularly do a fortnight each year to Spain or somewhere not too far

thaegumathteth · 05/03/2023 00:22

3.5 weeks last year to Orlando , before that 3 weeks in Canada for our honeymoon many years ago pre children.

MyBloodyMaryneedsmoreTabasco · 05/03/2023 00:23

A month - I went interrailing.

ScreamingTree · 05/03/2023 00:24

16 days, twice, both long haul. But never more than a week in Europe for the last 12 or so years (cos house and kids). Hoping we'll manage a big one again next year.

scoobydoo1971 · 05/03/2023 00:25

Three months. I had booked one week with kids in Majorca. Weather was amazing so did a deal with hotel, and stayed all summer. It was quite amazing. I could work off laptop, they could play and it was bliss.

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NextToTheRadio · 05/03/2023 00:25

Gah! I had a child very young and wasn't able to afford going away for so long !

Feel I've missed out.

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trickyfriendsone · 05/03/2023 00:25

4weeks to Australia.

Im usually 14 day For main summer hols

Imnotdrinkingmerlot · 05/03/2023 00:25

3 months in Southern africa. Would love that sort of time again!

cadburyegg · 05/03/2023 00:26

2 weeks, Cornwall as a young adult and France as a child, I think

StillMedusa · 05/03/2023 00:27

8 weeks.
5 years ago, me and my DD2 (aged 23 at the time) took off round the USA and Canada, staying with internet friends and in Air Bnbs and hotels.. visiting people I had been chatting to for 20 years, and seeing the places we wanted to see.

It was my 50th birthday treat and recovery from a breakdown for DD2.

It was wonderful and we came home refreshed, renewed and I recommend that everyone should 'escape' once in their lives Grin (DD2 now has a toddler and I'm Granny care so no chance ever again!!!)

User6761 · 05/03/2023 00:28

In my late teens/early 20s I spent 12 weeks in Oz and 7 weeks backpacking in Asia (separate trips). Naively at the time I thought I'd have loads of holidays like that. But 20 years on, I haven't been away again for more than 10 days!

emituofo · 05/03/2023 00:31

2 months, my 1st trip to Europe and I thought it would be the last because I lived in NZ at the time, it was just too far and too expensive to come back.

Nevermind31 · 05/03/2023 01:39

6 weeks backpacking in Malaysia (Student/ no Kids).
now (working/ kids) 18 days Spain in the summer

My2pence2day · 05/03/2023 02:01

6 months. Best thing I ever did 🤗

LadyJ2023 · 05/03/2023 02:01

2 weeks twice a year woth kids eaxh time and odd days in between

XenoBitch · 05/03/2023 02:02

7 nights

My2pence2day · 05/03/2023 02:07

NextToTheRadio · 05/03/2023 00:25

Gah! I had a child very young and wasn't able to afford going away for so long !

Feel I've missed out.

Well if you had them very young, that will mean they will be adults when you're still relatively young so you haven't missed out yet!

fairtrauchled · 05/03/2023 02:16

4 weeks to the Canadian Rockies and West coast USA

MarshaMelrose · 05/03/2023 02:17

3½ months. World cruise

MintJulia · 05/03/2023 02:19

three weeks in the Caribbean when in my 30s. It seems a very long time ago.

elodiesmith · 05/03/2023 02:44

3 months to Bali. It was okay. After a while it was just the same thing day after day. Explore. Relax. We felt bored and ...lazy. It started getting us down a bit actually.
DH and I are very... driven? We missed routine and just working towards something.

Don't get me wrong we'd love to retire now, but at 36 I still need to be doing something.

WandaWonder · 05/03/2023 03:06

3 months

RotundBeagle · 05/03/2023 03:09

Three weeks in Crete most years (three out of last four).