2014 Travel Plans

[Deleted]

What are your travel plans for 2014?


Personal:
June/July: Washington D.C. and Boston
September: Yellowstone
November: Austin

I want to also try and get to New Mexico and South Dakota during the year.  

Work:
At least 5 trips to Seattle
January: Paris & London, San Jose
June: Santa Clara
November: San Antonio
I'm sure there will be others but these are definite.  

[heyrebekah]

My SIL works at an airline and is adding me on as her travel companion so i can fly anywhere for just the price of tax. I foresee a lot of traveling in my future.

Also, my mom and I are finally taking our European river cruise at the end of March. We were supposed to go last Spring, but had to cancel the trip when I had a godawful eye infection.

[Deleted]

All personal

January: New Orleans
Late January or early February: DC, to visit a friend who is moving to Europe in February
May: Spain (Madrid/Granada/Seville)
Fourth of July (or maybe Labor Day): London, to visit my best friend and godson
Some time in the fall: Atlanta, to visit my grandpa

Also need to figure out a Labor Day (or another fall weekend, if I go to London over July 4) destination.

[rikki]

January- Going to Israel for 10 days and Vegas and the Grand Canyon for 6. NYC for a weekend. It's going to be a crazy month.

February- Chicago

That's it so far. Hoping to go to Thailand of Africa later in the year. I want to be pregnant again next summer, so it'll depend on that.

[heyrebekah]

Dec 16, 2013 11:29:14 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Dec 16, 2013 11:26:28 GMT -5 heyrebekah said:

My SIL works at an airline and is adding me on as her travel companion so i can fly anywhere for just the price of tax. I foresee a lot of traveling in my future.

This is awesome! So jealous!

She originally had put DH as her travel companion. He was making me jealous talking about all the great places he wanted to go. I told him he wasn't allowed to go anywhere awesome without me. And now i totally want to go to all the awesome places with or without him, LOL.

[emilyinchile]

For work I'll go to each of these several times:
Argentina
Uruguay
Colombia

Probably go to Paraguay, Brazil, Idaho and NY as well

NO clue on personal travel beyond CA in May. This year has taught me that with my job and H's sports commitments, we really can't plan in advance. I'd love to finally make it to Easter Island, but we'll see how things shape up.

[ssmjlm]

The only planned thing is the beach in August, which is our annual family trip (although we pushed to August instead of our normal July week).

My dad really wants to do a trip for E's 1st bday, so I'm thinking an AI somewhere b/c that will be easiest with a 1yo.

[Susie]

I think it's going to be a quiet year, due to a $-intensive wedding, and $-intensive races.

Jan:  Miami for friend's bachelorette party #1
June:  Massachusetts (not quite Boston or the Cape) for a half ironman
June-ish:  Long Island for friend's shower
Summer sometime:  NYC for friend's bachelorette party #2
August:  New Hampshire for another half ironman
Sept:  Long Island for friend's wedding
Sept:  Ragnar Relay Adirondacks

The destinations aren't exciting, but I don't think it'll leave tons of room in the travel budget for fun destinations.  Alas.  I was really hoping to do either Kauai or Utah backpacking this year.

[Deleted]

rikki -- seeing your plans made me think of this -- what ever happened with that crazy airfare deal thing where you bought a ton of flights through that Scandinavian site? Will they honor the tickets?

[arch01]

Cruise in January, Palm Springs and Vegas in March, beach in September.

Maybe to the mountains in June for a family trip.

[cransplash]

March- Puerto Rico
June- Chicago (hoping to run the Ragnar Relay with friends)
August- TX (DH's brother is graduating college)
Oct- Hoping to squeeze in a mini-vacay with DH

I only have 10 days off for work (though I do get 12/25-1/1 off as a company-wide policy), so that eats up all my days

[wanderlustfoodie]

We had a relatively slow year this year but will be making up for it next year, due in large part to the fact that this year we had very few weddings to attend and they were all in NYC but next year we have several to attend and none of them are in the city.

A lot of potential leisure travel is still up in the air at this point, though.

January: will be starting out the year in Morocco

February: possible trip for President's weekend

April: possible work trip to Seattle which would be great because several good friends live there

April: long weekend in Amsterdam to see tulips

May: likely will be planning a trip for Memorial Day

June: weekend in Princeton for friends' wedding
June: weekend in NH with friends

July: safari in Rwanda and Tanzania

August: weekend in Orange County, CA for friends' wedding
August: weekend in Vermont for friends' wedding
August: we were invited to a wedding in Lake Balaton, Hungary but it is the same weekend as a good friend's wedding here in NY ( )so we haven't decided what we're going to do about that. On the one hand, a wedding in Hungary would be awesome; on the other, we're going to be taking a lot of vacation that summer so we might opt for the local wedding. If only the Hungary wedding was over Labor Day, it would've been a no-brainer.

September: may plan a trip for Labor Day but may be too exhausted from all the August travel

November: weekend in Minneapolis for friends' wedding
November: weekend trip for our 5 year anniversary (leaning towards a Caribbean island)

December: end of year trip to Italy (my third time but my husband's first). And to end the post in MM-style, we have so many Starwood points, I'm pretty sure we'll be staying every night for free with points.

[Deleted]

Febuary - Lousiana
May - Lousiana for sister's graduation
September'ish - NYC with mom and sister
December - Vegas for the NFR since they are moving it to Orlando of all places in 2014. So mad about that!

[mbcdefg]

We usually do a summer trip every year since MH is a teacher ... in 2014 we want to fly out to Seattle, rent a car, and drive south through Portland, along the coast, and end up in San Francisco and fly home from there.

We go to Boston every year after Christmas so I assume we'll do that again in 2014.

Nothing else is planned. Occasionally we do a spur-of-the-monent overnight in Philadelphia or Boston, or we go to Atlantic City with friends. And my grandma moved to Maine a few months ago so it'd be nice if we could go visit her and make it into a little vacation. We were invited to a destination wedding in the Caribbean but we don't plan on going.

Sometimes I travel for work, but those plans are never made too far in advance. I will almost definitely be going to a conference in Massachusetts; I think I could possibly be going to some in DC and Texas; and a while back someone mentioned the possibility of me going to one in Berlin. We'll see.

[Deleted]

All personal, I don't travel for work:

We are possibly doing a cruise to Turks and Caicos in February
We are going to Italy at the end of March and NYC sometime in the fall. We may also do a weekend getaway for our anniversary in May but it will likely be instate.

[rikki]

Dec 16, 2013 11:36:30 GMT -5 v said:

rikki -- seeing your plans made me think of this -- what ever happened with that crazy airfare deal thing where you bought a ton of flights through that Scandinavian site? Will they honor the tickets?

We are going to Israel for $500 for all 3 of us! We also have tickets to Milan. I'm just not sure if we will use them. They were $134 per person, so if we don't, no big deal. I want to go, but my husband is dragging his feet. We're in Hawaii now and he is sick of traveling.

There was zero issue with the tickets being ticketed.

[rikki]

I forgot. We're taking a 5 year old and 11 year old to Disney in March. I might have selective memory about the trip. I'm a little nervous!

[keweenawlove]

So far I've got:

January - Weekend trip to Detroit for a Wings game
March - Conference in New Orleans
May - Kauai and Maui
September - Wedding in Whitefish, Montana

I'm most likely graduating this spring or summer which could mean a move is coming so most of this year feels very up in the air.

[rikki]

Dec 16, 2013 11:52:32 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

Dec 16, 2013 11:50:21 GMT -5 rikki said:

I forgot. We're taking a 5 year old and 11 year old to Disney in March. I might have selective memory about the trip. I'm a little nervous!

It's a big splurge but have you looked into Disney's VIP program?  It gives you a private guide and you get to skip all the lines on rides, go behind the scenes, get special reserved seats for parades and whatnot, and just generally avoid all the headaches of crowds.  I have several friends who have done it and all rave. 

I hadn't heard of this. I am totally going to look into it. That sounds heavenly! If only I could just drop the girls off with them in the morning and pick them up at night.

[Deleted]

The baby arriving in February pretty much kills a good bit of the year as far as travel goes.
This summer we will either go with DH's family if they rent a beach house or just rent one ourselves if they don't go. That will be a week in early August.
Travelling to Napa to see family 2-3 times throughout the year.
That will probably be the end of it. Our travel plans are much less exciting than the rest of what I am seeing here.

[wanderlustfoodie]

Dec 16, 2013 11:49:30 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

Dec 16, 2013 11:44:39 GMT -5 wanderlustfoodie said:

We had a relatively slow year this year but will be making up for it next year, due in large part to the fact that this year we had very few weddings to attend and they were all in NYC but next year we have several to attend and none of them are in the city.

A lot of potential leisure travel is still up in the air at this point, though.

January: will be starting out the year in Morocco

February: possible trip for President's weekend

April: possible work trip to Seattle which would be great because several good friends live there

April: long weekend in Amsterdam to see tulips

May: likely will be planning a trip for Memorial Day

June: weekend in Princeton for friends' wedding
June: weekend in NH with friends

July: safari in Rwanda and Tanzania

August: weekend in Orange County, CA for friends' wedding
August: weekend in Vermont for friends' wedding
August: we were invited to a wedding in Lake Balaton, Hungary but it is the same weekend as a good friend's wedding here in NY ( )so we haven't decided what we're going to do about that. On the one hand, a wedding in Hungary would be awesome; on the other, we're going to be taking a lot of vacation that summer so we might opt for the local wedding. If only the Hungary wedding was over Labor Day, it would've been a no-brainer.

September: may plan a trip for Labor Day but may be too exhausted from all the August travel

November: weekend in Minneapolis for friends' wedding
November: weekend trip for our 5 year anniversary (leaning towards a Caribbean island)

December: end of year trip to Italy (my third time but my husband's first). And to end the post in MM-style, we have so many Starwood points, I'm pretty sure we'll be staying every night for free with points.

If you go let me know as I may be up there and would love to grab a drink (if you have time)!

Would love that! ETA: just saw you'll be in NYC, too, so hopefully that won't be one of the weekends when I'm not here since if you have time we could do a NY get-together

[definitelyO]

this post is making me jealous!!! We don't have any trips planned except some long weekend ski trips.

The annual conference I go to that has been in Vancouver, Boston, etc.. is in my home town in 2014 - so that's no fun.. LOL

I hope to get a beach vacation in - maybe convince DH that DS needs to go to DisneyWorld

[Deleted]

I am going to Cancun with my family (parents, sisters, BIL and baby) in May for a week. We're going to an AI and it's really more about family time than seeing the world, since we've all already been there.

I'm hoping to attend a conference in June in Orlando. If I do I'll probably extend the trip and do some Disney stuff, though that will partly depend on if I can find someone else to go with me since I'm not sure Disney will be as much fun alone and I've been there before anyway so it's not like this is my one chance to see it. As of right now I'm hoping my BF will be that person since he's not been to Florida yet but we'll see about that one.

Beyond that... I don't have any. I would love to take a vacation later in the year and see a new place but that's entirely dependent on my getting my finances in order. I am a long way from paying off my last vacation so until that's done I can't really plan anything else big.

[M]

I'm jealous of all of you. H and I gave up trying to make travel plans in advance because they've all fallen through the last 2 years. Now all we can do is last minute stuff.

All we have is in March, one of my cousins is getting married in Los Angeles. Hopefully we can make that, but we'll see.

[flygirl22]

Next year is a low key travel year for us.

January- weekend trip to Oregon with friends. Have zero details about this pure than it involves a cabin..

May- trip to my brothers graduation plus one week house rental on Lake of the Ozarks. Will be trying to squeeze in a visit to my BFF since she is due in late May. Otherwise I'll be adding another trip in here to visit her and baby.

December- Christmas trip home.

2015 we are planning a big pre-TTC trip.

[preppy]

January- St Croix for 10 days, leave one month from today!!

April- headed to Florida (Siesta Key) with my mom and sisters.

October- nothing official yet but we are hoping to go to Nicaragua? Not 100% sure.

[sometimesrunner]

Right now all we have on the calendar is Kauai in Sept (flying first class and staying at the St. Regis all w/ using points ) and DC in November.

[cajunmom]

The only personal trip we have planned is a surprise trip to Disney World in January. I'm hoping to get a quick 3-4 day beach trip sometime in the summer, but we'll have to wait and see about that.

I don't take trips for work, alas.

H will have work trips but the locations aren't certain. Baltimore is pretty much a guarantee, and he'll probably have 1-2 trips to Wyoming, plus anywhere from 3-12 other trips over the U.S. and Canada.

I am depressed by the lack of travel in my life.

[cajunmom]

Dec 16, 2013 11:50:21 GMT -5 rikki said:

I forgot. We're taking a 5 year old and 11 year old to Disney in March. I might have selective memory about the trip. I'm a little nervous!

When in March are you going? We had our trip booked in March but moved it up to January but we've been to Disney several times so if you want any tips or anything just let me know! There are some really great sites that give you tons of info about predicted crowd levels, which parks are the best to visit each day, etc., and they make planning our days much easier.

Also, 5 and 11 are great ages for Disney. Don't be nervous!

[HoneySpider]

We don't have anything concrete on the agenda yet mainly because we don't know if/when we're moving.

We'll be going to AZ for a wedding but my friend hasn't set the date yet so it could be late 2014, could be early 2015.

We're tired of struggling with TTC and we're going to treat ourselves to a nice vacation. We're hopefully going to make it to Italy if we can afford it (again depends on if/when we move)