People who can’t do simple holidays

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How would you describe someone who only really seems to go on hard to organise holidays? Like we like going to Dubai or Mallorca, nice and easy, one flight and done. Or if we go further afield then we do a package with Tui to Cancun or Dominican, usually AI.

But I have colleagues who seem to go on really whacky or trips that sound like a pain. They’d go to Greece and then get a ferry to some place no one has ever heard of. Or if they went to the Caribbean then they’d pick somewhere that needs two flights and a ferry to get to. Never do AI or something easy and relaxing but self cater and drive around.

I do hear the relaxing comments as we did 3 weeks in our camper travelling around Denmark mainly but bit of Sweden, Netherlands etc. However we moved on daily and it gave little time to just chill. Came back shattered.
Since then we try to scale it back a little.

I can understand if you can only take 1 week off work basing yourselves in one place and easy to get to.

What do you call people who like both?

This year we are doing Thailand and staying in 4/5 different places, all booked myself separately (including international flights, internal flights, hotels, transfers etc), then in the summer we are doing a cruise (mix of flop and sun with seeing different places, but zero planning involved) and the a few months ago we did a weeks AI where we didn't leave the village we stayed in!

We have different requirements for different trips, they all have pros and cons.

yes. But I was bored at work!

But even in the main restaurant there’s usually a massive selection. We’ve only done AI once and the food was amazing. We wanted a total switch off holiday. Last summer we did half board and every night there was a different selection of options. Maybe you were just unlucky with the hotel choice. I’m not saying it’s for everyone but puzzled by the boredom and your belief you need to stay on site and not explore at all. We did two boat trips and went snorkelling, visited a market, explored an archeological dig of an ancient village etc plus swam in the sea and pools.

Dubai is shit. Mallorca is lovely (in the main). Happy to tell you without any further discussion these truths as there is only one valid opinion on holiday choices and I’m definitely right.

If they're going to a Greek Island that no one has ever heard of then they're obviously wanting to escape mass tourism - have you seen what Santorini is like in August? It looks like absolute hell!
We went to Mykonos in early October thinking it would be dead - nope absolutely rammed with older Americans on Cruises. Went on a ferry to a much less well known island and it was hugely cheaper and still beautiful, just a much nicer place to be.

Dubai and Cancun sound like my idea of hell - as does all inclusive. I don't want to be shut in the equivalent of a gated community or trapse around shopping malls. I like to explore local eateries, historic/archaeological sites, art galleries and the like. I actively enjoy getting boats and trains, it's a great way to meet people and see more of the country you're visiting. Different strokes for different folks.

Perfect answer.

Better a 'whacky' holiday than one to a place built with save labour and with appalling human rights

Ah you’re going to have an amazing time! We did a similar trip about 5 years ago but Mexico instead of El Salvador and it was all fantastic. In fact Belize is probably the most beautiful country I’ve ever been to! You absolutely have to go snorkelling, it’s incredible there - the second biggest barrier reef in the world, still in quite good health, and amazing fish and turtles too!

They like different holidays to the op. As do I.

I cannot think of anything worse than an all inclusive package holiday. I would not find it relaxing. Too many people.

Relaxing is a house tucked away, where we can eat good local food sometimes in restaurants and sometimes at the house and if the latter, in our scruffs.

The fact that you've posted this here and seemed bothered by it suggests this is less about them, and more about how their 'wacky' travel /holiday choices make you feel insecure for some reason.

Do they make you feel inferior? Uncultured? Boring?

If so, there's no need to feel that way. You savour the place you go to, whereas people like that tend to crave a different type of stimulation or challenge.

She ain't coming back

On the package holidays?
I went to Kos in 1997, somewhere in Turkey in 1998 and Tunisia in 1999.

Its a long time ago!

I call them people I would actually be interested in hearing about their holiday from. As opposed to your AI package vanilla holiday.
Which I suspect is the origin of your question OP.

This is one of the most bizarre threads I've ever seen.
I love to go to Greece and get a ferry over to a gorgeous quiet spot that isn't crawling with tourists!
Hate all inclusive. I don't want to gorge myself on the same shit every day I like to experience the local supermarkets and restaurants.
I don't want to fly somewhere where you can't leave the "compound" i want to explore.
Dubai is my idea of hell.
Your holiday's sound dull to me sorry.
Each to their own though.

Open minded?

Adventurous?

Exploratory?

Inquisitive?

Generally, I can't think of a single negative adjective to use for such people

For me, it’s budget. I tend to start my holiday planning with where the cheapest flights go to, and see where that takes us.

What do you call people who’ve done all those things? AI in 5* resorts because your fussy eater need access to lots of activities if you’ve a hope in hell of relaxing, through to walking/back/packing or tours and/or city breaks?

People like different things, usually at different stages of their lives, in response to whether they fancy an adventure, relaxation or as little stress as possible - or have a limited budget. There is no superior way to holiday, only what suits a person/their family at any particular stage.

I’d rather decorate the bathroom, twice, than visit Dubai though.

a lot of people have a word for those who like to holiday in Dubai...

Oh come on OP, you must have known the snooty replies you were going to get to your post!
PPs falling over themselves to say they hate AI, hate package holidays - you knew that was coming.

I do holidays like this... frankly I get bored sitting by a pool all day, I want to see and do things not waste my life away.

Also we don't do 'AI' because we can't afford it, believe it or not the coolest options are also amazingly usually the cheapest just because they require effort.

We have drove hours up scenic mountains in beautiful landscapes to get to the most stunning remote hotels set in acres of fruit groves with nature and wild native animals playing amongst us in the past, that honestly you could believe should cost thousands. Yet despite it being paradise we have been the only people there other than staff (so exclusive use basically) AND saved so much money (even with car hire and petrol, plus we could leave each day and travel to see different towns thanks to having a car). Simply because most people are just to lazy to travel and will often pay extortionate prices to stay in the tiny, packed, smelly, rough (from some we saw cockroach infested) city hotels closest to the airport. Its really bizarre to me.

I visit all over. Last year I did Italy as saw at least 9 different places. I get limited time off and want to see the world not just a resort.

I enjoy planning and finding hidden gems and amazing experiences in other countries. I don't want to spend it going on a organised holiday where all other tourists are.

I would also never go to Dubai. That to me is "whacky".

Because they like it and it is their holiday to do what they want to do. Everyone has different preferences.

I assumed all inclusive was for people with picky children who wanted to same safe foods to eat.

No judgement, we’ve all had to deal with that at some point as parents and the path of least resistance is a smart one on a holiday. I had a DC who only at a particular brand of cereal and had to pack boxes of it whenever we travelled.

I would rather never holiday than go to a hellscape like Dubai. Oodles of judgement for that. Human rights abuses and rampant capitalism put a damper on any advantages of sunny weather.