Is 9 nights long haul enough?

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Recently did a 11 hour flight somewhere for a 7 night trip. Got home exhausted.

Can now do a 9 night trip somewhere that’s 12 hours flight and 5 hours time diff.

i want to come home energised not knackered from the journey/ trip. What do you think?

Which way is the time difference? Coming back from Asia / Middle East way- maybe yes. Coming back from West Coast America way, absolutely not.
Chose South from UK for no time difference? Most likely yes.

Is the nine nights include nights on the plane? Or nine nights there, plus travel?What is the time difference?

Really only you can make that judgement. As I've got older I've got better at handling jetlag, but for me the main issue is not so much being knackered when I get back as being knackered when I'm there, especially if the outward flight is going east.

We’ve done a week in south Africa and it’s fine as no time difference. We did 10 nights in Thailand and the jet lag hurt

I've been to Australia for ten days - two weeks holiday (all I could get off work), so four days spent in transit, and ten days actually there.

It was a visit to my DD, so I could chill while I was there, and I got over the jet lag quite quickly, so I think nine days is fine and doable.

Pay for as high class tickets on the way back that you can afford, fly home overnight and sleep at the 'right' time for the UK so you get back and can snap into uk time. That's the theory at least!!

Depends on the type of holiday and what you’ve got to do when you come back.

We’ve done 8/9 nights Mauritius and Maldives and worked fine. But obviously everything is easy once there and we time it so we don’t have much on once back home.

Not sure I’d do it for a more full on holiday with sightseeing or activities or moving about. Or if I was going to be really busy once back.

I’ve done west coast America for 7 nights. Fairly shattered on way back but it was worth it.

I’ve just done a 12 hour flight back from 7 days in Mauritius with no problems (4 hour time difference). Night flights both ways.

We do this often and it’s absolutely fine. I have a rule that you’re not allowed to say jet lag unless the flight’s well over 12 hours.

I find the trip home the hardest to be honest. Build in a day between arriving home and back to work if you can