If money were no object where would you take your kids on holiday?

[TheMaskedAvenger]

Imagine you have an unlimited budget and you want to take a family of 4 on holiday, where would you go and where would you stay?

That is where we are off to on Sunday sailing around the Ionian islands in Greece on a yacht. It isn’t as expensive as people would think.

Japan

I'm planning a trip for the future

Not exactly what you're asking for but when I got a redundancy payout I took my sister and toddler nephew to Mexico (she'd had a pretty hard time of it with her fiancé dying early on in her pregnancy). Went to an all inclusive for the first time in my life and it was honestly amazing.

My nephew loved swimming with sea turtles and also (maybe surprisingly!) loved Tulum. Plus the food was great! All round just a nice, easy holiday! Especially as I'd only ever done backpacking style holidays previously

I only have one child at the moment who is a baby so who knows whether she’ll prefer Disney or backpacking in Borneo. Paris isn’t a patch on Florida, it’s like comparing a town shopping centre to Westfields as I’m sure any Disneyworld fans would agree. It’s great you’ve given your kids cultural experiences, we are planning to do the same but there’s no need to be snide and superior about Disney which is great and a dream for a lot of people.

@YaWeeFurryBastard We had no intention of going to Disney Florida. If you don’t rate that sort of holiday, why fly long haul to it? In Paris it was mixed with the joys of actual Paris. The great city. Also why give dc the choice when they know very little about the world? Also why assume dc are not capable of going on a holiday with quieter delights? Ours happily watched wildlife. Backpacking - no. Seeing the world, yes.

Can’t believe how many people have said Disney…

Ecuador + Galapagos Islands
California + Hawaii
Australia long trip + Cook’s Islands

We are also going to DisneyWorld in Florida for the 5th time this summer and I agree that comparing Disneyland Paris to Florida is like comparing a visit to Butlins with a stay at Ikos resort.

My DS would love something like a Safari, animal mad. We would all love Disney Florida. Hawaii most definitely.

But Disney Florida can be mixed with the joys of actual Florida, or do you think Florida is limited to Disney/universal? It’s not, there’s loads of other stuff to do such as the Everglades, Florida keys etc. Why not give kids the choice? It’s perfectly possible to do both.

Each to their own and all that but it does make me roll my eyes when people act so superior about Disney world, especially if they’ve never even been!

@YaWeeFurryBastard
precisely. People can be so ignorant.
We swam with manatees in the wild in Florida, visited the Everglades, did water safaris , saw Alligators in the wild, visited the Space Centre, cycled through citrus plantations, explored the Keys. Snorkels with sting rays. All as add -ons to our multiple Disney holidays.
my kids are well traveled and did all sorts of educational stuff that would fit the snob’s criteria - believe me as a family we all prefer Florida holidays to anything else. That’s why we return nearly every year. We also do a new destination every year, we have Japan and Norway booked in the next 10 months.
I’ll be honest nothing makes me as excited as our return to WDW in Florida though.

Does anyone think I care about which theme park is better? So comparing Disney Paris and Disney Florida is besides the point. Both are pretty boring if you don’t like Disney or don’t like theme parks! We would still not bother to go.

Its reasonable that such parks are not places everyone wants but they are always the dream destination on these threads even when the whole world is your oyster!

Of course I know Florida has more to offer but other activities have appealed more to us and the question was about what you could do with a lot of money. Florida is mostly not what the very rich do! I think if you have no sense of curiosity about the rest of the world, so be it, but theme parks limit curiosity and the ability to find out more about people, wildlife and cultures the world over. If you had money in abundance, why limit yourself to a known resort and just more of the same?

I think she’d really like the maldives or florida

This is amusing that this thread has just turned into a Disney is Awesome vs Disney is Terrible argument yet no one has commented that my dream is to pootle around the UK in a campervan.
I was expecting a few comments like "is that it?" or "really....that's your dream?"
I'm disappointed in the lot of you 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

For what it’s worth, if we suddenly came into money and did a month in Japan, we would pop into Disney Tokyo or universal depending on Ds age when we travel. It would make sense to do on route as it were. Probably 2 days, so plenty of time the other 28 days for culture

Ps for those looking at safari, we have found Sri Lanka much better value than say South Africa to combine a safari into trip

With DD - Italy from top to bottom and 8 weeks Australia and New Zealand. Hotels and Villas

Without her - safari in lodges and multi-country SE Asia tour - hotels only

Can’t mock it - holidaying in the UK is so expensive that yours is probably the most realistic and likely use of a windfall 🤣

Australia and New Zealand

Safaris in Sri Lanka aren’t the same as in Southern Africa though. If the animals you want to see are in SA, that’s where you go. No rhinos in Sri Lanka as far as I know. This is a no expense spared thread so value isn’t the point.

Absolutely agree! Campervanning is quite the aspirational middle class lifestyle these days it seems! Perhaps it’s been gentrified….

I'm not rich enough to be middle class - which is why my campervan dream will never happen 🙁

Sitting entirely in the middle of the argument, I would love to take DD to the disney hotel in Hawaii!

I think a trip around Italy sampling all the food would suit us all pretty well. My DCs love food and to explore cities and countryside. And a helicopter ride around Mount Etna so they can see an active volcano (when safe to do so!) I've been to Italy a few times but to be able to do something without any worries over the budget would be amazing.

Maybe do the Rocky Mountaineer and travel around Canada but only staying in Fairmont Hotels now that would be lovely. Failing that a suite with a Butler at any Sandals or somewhere near Table Mountain. But as money is no object I will just do all the trips!

We'd do multi destination trip to the USA if money were no object, 5 nights in New York to start with, then down to Orlando for a few days, a couple of nights in Las Vegas, then a few nights in Califonia to visit the original Disneyland and some of the other sights.