Comments on: Vacations are a necessity, not a luxury

By: villa spain

villa spain — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:29:00 +0000

Yes i am agree with this pots that vacations are necessity and not luxury. One take vacations to relax both physically and mentally. Ans if you are wasting money in your vacations and making it expensive its useless.Vacations or holidays are not just about getting away, that’s
the part that makes us smile. They are also useful to rejuvenate us with new energy.

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MJ’s Travel Favorites 1-16-10 | Traveling with MJ — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:03:33 +0000

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By: Laura Townsend Elion

Laura Townsend Elion — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:33:13 +0000

The trhere are those of us who write about travel for a living and for whom staying at home is a vacation.

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By: MIchael

MIchael — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:56:26 +0000

What about those who take a week off to go to the beach with their family, but take the laptop and Blackberry and spend a couple of hours each day (or more) answering emails, being on conference calls, etc. Is that really fair to the employee or the rest of their family? That is one reason I like cruises for vacation — cell phone gets turned off as soon as the last line leaves the pier, and I am incommunicado for the duration of the trip.

By: Marilyn Long

Marilyn Long — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:19:04 +0000

People’s ideas of what constitutes a vacation differ. Your interpretation of a vacation being lying around on a beach listening to the waves or watching the sunset would not be a vacation to me. I can feel my joints stiffening and my brain atrophying at the very thought. If I wanted to be bored to death, I could find less expensive and difficult ways of doing it than to travel some distance to a beach or spa. A vacation in my opinion should provide some excitement or diversion from ordinary life, something of interest that I would not usually get to see or do. I want a vacation with lots of activities and things to see. There is plenty of time to sit around when I am incapacitated by old age. So your conclusion that few people take vacations may not be valid at all since your idea of a vacation would not be a vacation to me and, no doubt, my vacation wouldn’t suit you either.

By: @Dr_Drea

@Dr_Drea — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:01:53 +0000

Can we address the fact that so many U.S. companies only give 2 weeks worth of vacation time? If others are like me, they would LOVE to take a full month off! However, taking two of those weeks off as unpaid time (especially now), leaving no vacation days for the rest of the year, is hard. The “time off” policies at companies must first change before the American people will collectively change their vacay habits.

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uberVU - social comments — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:01:25 +0000

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By: Paulette Baker

Paulette Baker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:59:51 +0000

It doesn’t take me “several days” to get my head away from home and office. As soon as I’m in my car (whether heading out on a driving trip or heading to the airport, I’m on vacation. And I definitely don’t think about work till my alarm goes off on my first day back! I do know people like the ones you describe, though. They have no clue as to how to relax. One has to wonder why they bother to leave home/work at all.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:34:15 +0000

I am a caregiver and haven’t had a vacation (besides, nor a single day off) in the last 12 years, because I have no respite care nor anyone to help me out. I know what it means being able to really relax and to really take “time off” everything – and everthing may means also catching a plane that for other people is annoying because it’s late or full, but to me means that I’m away. Or being in the London tube while lots of people go to work, but I’m going to the Kew Gardens………….To me, lots of simple things can be a vacation like being able to work a football match on tv or having twenty minutes to check the mail, but 12 years without a day off are really taking their toll on me, so I would encourage anyone to DO take time off. You never know what life can throw at you, and you always need to be at your best.