Cruises, fair. Huge resorts, fair. But i’ve been on vacations with people that want to go to places like DC or London just relax in the hotel. Why travel somewhere else? Just to set in the hotel? You could literally just get a hotel and the next town over and get the exact same experience.
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Cruise? Boring.
Resort? Also boring.
You can’t explore a city all day straight and enjoy it you need to rest. I’m sure you’re being facetious no one is seriously traveling to just relax in the hotel.
I would agree that going to a different city, and never leaving the hotel, would be dumb.
But do people do that? I’m don’t know anyone that does that.
Interesting. I have never in my life experienced people who want to travel and then just sit at the hotel.
How many times are you going to post some variation of this?
Adventure is outside a lot of people’s comfort zone.
My wife and older kid love hotels. I don’t quite get it.
We have a house at home but what if I told you that we could all cram into one studio apartment, usually without a kitchen, with sometimes a busy, noisy hallway? But you don’t have to make your bed or clean the bathroom. So that’s nice. Sometimes there’s a pool.
In related news, we’re about 20 minutes away from an airbnb that has 3 bedrooms and is right on a river with a lovely looking screened in porch, also overlooking the (Allegheny) river.
I do the vacation research and bookings, so we probably spend less time in hotels than most people. But yeah, if I’m going to a place, I want to see the place! Not see a room.
In yet more related news, we’re staying at a hotel during our return trip because they like hotels and I like them. But I bet the airbnb will be cooler (and, yes, I know airbnbs have turned into a bit of a racket).
>You could literally just get a hotel and the next town over and get the exact same experience.
Maybe the next town over doesn’t have hotels that are that nice.
Maybe the next town over doesn’t have hotels with an ocean view, etc.
Maybe the next town over doesn’t have the variety of restaurants that this other place has.
Maybe the person wants to do a specific thing or two, but then relax in the hotel for the rest of the time.
I’m with you on this. Hotels are for the 4 S’s of travel: Sleep, shower, cuddle, and potty. Get cheap hotels in nice areas as a place to get back to at the end of a 9 AM to 2 AM day.
Are you just copy/pasting your opinions and changing hte details? You just made a post exactly like this about bar hopping. Same words, same structure. Feels like a bot.
Sometimes a change of setting and separating yourself from home life is nice. I don’t do it, but I could see why one would.
Lots of people do that at big all inclusive hotels in Mexico. Maybe do a few day and night outings and the rest of time spent at Hotel restaurants and bars. Sitting on beach and by the pool. Doing activities. Go to one of those next time maybe.
Because a lot of people, like myself, don’t enjoy sight seeing. Being in your town or somewhere close feels like being home. Getting out of town and staying in the room is relaxing, not walking around looking at buildings or whatever. To be fair, I do both on trips because my wife likes sightseeing so we make sure to do both. My ex would get mad on vacations because I don’t enjoy seeing the sights, but my wife just makes sure to plan a day or two of actual relaxation.
I went to Boston on the red eye and landed at like 10ish and was planning on doing Fenway that night before flying back home early morning ( 7am flight ) and got to my hotel and into my room at like 11 took a quick shower and was exhausted because I barley slept on the flight so I took a 4 hour nap and started exploring Boston around 3 which wasn’t very long. Still regret taking that four hour nap even though it was needed and regretted taking the first flight out the following day to save money. I couldn’t imagine spending the money to go somewhere especially out of the country and only staying in the hotel.
I actually agree, but holidays are an escape and you can’t judge people for how they want to escape.
I mean, I’m a lazy traveler. I’ll go on a several day vacation, do one touristy thing, and spend the rest of my time at the hotel.
I would get a regular hotel three towns over and that would be a vacation. Can’t do same town, you can still find me. I’m escaping. Obviously doing this in a tourist trap is dumb.
I personally wouldn’t pay the money to go someplace unless there’s something or someone I’m there to see. Most of my trips are for family as such. I would like to do a cross country road trip, but that’s way more active than that. Maybe fly to California and buy a cheap car and drive it back to Maryland. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, get something there that would’ve rotted away here on the east coast.
I know of people who do very little exploration. They’re overwhelmed and overworked in their normal lives, so they end up just reading a book by the pool or whatever, and going out to a chain restaurant. To me all inclusive resorts are pretty boring, since there is little incentive to leave the resort(all basic needs like food met and included in the price.) All of this seems like a boring waste of money to me, since I love to hike and explore the local area and cities and go to museums and see sights and try unique restaurants and all of that stuff. I guess to each their own though, some people just want to take it easy and relax, hopefully those people at least have the self awareness that others aren’t going to be particularily interested in hearing all about their lame vacation.
I agree. Going to a different country just to never leave a resort is kinda dumb. Plenty of domestic resorts that are much cheaper and less hassle. Not my money or time though. People can vacation how they want no matter how dumb it is.
It sounds like you just need a friend group with an outlook on vacations similar to yours.
They could save tons of money and time by relaxing in a hotel down the block, but then would have nothing to brag about.