Where to go in March?

[Cazeesh]

I’m planning a trip with my partner who’ll be turning 40 in March but we’re incredibly indecisive people and we’ve been discussing this for months now and we’ve gotten absolutely nowhere.

We’re think long-haul, warm/hot weather, 7 nights max, price-wise we’re quite flexible - we haven’t got on a proper trip since before Covid and it’s a milestone birthday so happy to pay a little more.

I think my main concern is that we end up choosing somewhere without knowing much about the place and especially the climate, then we’re stuck in a week-long monsoon.

Open to suggestions!

Dubai?

Florida Keys or Mexican Riviera

Caribbean
South Africa (good for jet lag)

We ve spent 2 amazing weeks in Morocco last September for our wedding anniversary. We had a blast, romantic city and very nice activities horse riding by the beach, quad , nice restaurants and very good weather !
can share with you the host number we stayed at 🙂was the best trip ever ✈️

I personally wouldn't do long haul for only 7 days, but I'd definitely go to Egypt or Cyprus, Egypt being my favourite

Thailand?

ESSAOUIRA, direct flights from stansted all week

If you only have 7 days, LONG haul will eat into your time away. I was initially going to suggest Thailand, but with jetlag/flight times, you'd barely get 5 days. I'd look somewhere more mid haul TBH or even outer parts of Europe.

Cyprus, Turkey, Canaries, Cape Verde, North Africa, a med cruise or river cruise ? Potentially not all hot, hot though.

I personally wouldn't do long haul for only 7 days, but I'd definitely go to Egypt or Cyprus, Egypt being my favourite

I went to Cyprus last month, I was fairly lucky with the weather compared to March historically but it definitely wasn’t hot hot. I could just about lay around the pool and swimming in the outside pool was impossible as it was so cold. It was good for exploring, think three quarter trousers and a denim jacket weather and doing activities. The flight was actually quite long, for a couple of extra hours you can get to the Middle East or Caribbean and you get the TVs and choice to upgrade flights.

I went to Egypt one April and that was a good temperature as was the sea. Plus it wasn’t too hot for sightseeing.

Do you want a sightseeing type holiday or a lazing by a pool type holiday?

we ideally were looking to do a more relaxing, lay on the beach all day kind of thing.

I think I’ve convinced by these responses that 7 nights just wouldn’t be worth it for long haul.

I'm not the worlds biggest fan of Dubai for all kinds of reasons but if you just want guaranteed good temperatures, lying around and a flash hotel - it does fit that criteria and is the best time if the year to go . Depends on your views on Dubai etc

Maybe look at Jordan ( great history) and Oman too - longish flights but less than far east and perfectly doable

Madeira also nice if you pick a high end hotel - not quite as guaranteed weather , as is Playa Blanca in lanzarote.

I also really enjoyed Marrakech although I know others hate it. Weather late March was a lovely 26 degrees every day , you do get some 'hassle' but we learnt to just ignore it

I personally won't go to Egypt as had terrible amoebic dysentry - as did all 3 of us - never had anything from Marrakech and the food was some of the best I've had anywhere (French/Morrocan)

I also really enjoyed Istanbul OP - fabulous food and great sightseeing - but it's not ' beachy '

OP don’t dismiss long haul for a week, I’ve had about 25 really good long haul one week holidays. I find you end up having one extra long day traveling there or back depending on what way you are travelling. Or an overnight flight example to Mauritius or Cape Town. You end up with the same amount of holiday hours there and as you have no travelling without DC it’s easy to have a nap/snooze on the beach the first day if you need one.