Poll: What kind of vacation person are you?

posted by Laley23

Heading out there for work tomorrow. Of course they have us staying at the Marriott TPC Resort and not the strip. Hotel blockings were for the Cosmo (my favorite), but due to COVID NBC pushing us as far away from crowds as possible. 

Have fun! On weekdays the place is at like 10% of normal amount of people. It’s really easy to stay safe and distanced while doing the typical Vegas activities. On the weekends everyone from California comes in because they are shut down and it gets pretty busy. 

Also if you need a place for a dinner one night check out Esthers Kitchen. It’s in the art district and one of my top 3 restaurants I have ate at anywhere and it’s very reasonably priced. 

Top 5 Places I want to go:

I wanna do a London - Paris - Amsterdam trip

2 weeks all around Italy

Greece

Costa Rica

St Lucia 

When Covid is over we will probably check off one of the European trips and Costa Rica or St Lucia. 

I would love to go to Australia but I’m not sure I could endure that long of a flight. 

posted by sportchampps

Top 5 Places I want to go:

I wanna do a London - Paris - Amsterdam trip

2 weeks all around Italy

Greece

Costa Rica

St Lucia 

When Covid is over we will probably check off one of the European trips and Costa Rica or St Lucia. 

I would love to go to Australia but I’m not sure I could endure that long of a flight. 

Do you have miles? We used miles for upgrade to Sydney and  was well worth it. Business Class on flights like that is a vacation within the vacation.

posted by sportchampps

Also if you need a place for a dinner one night check out Esthers Kitchen. It’s in the art district and one of my top 3 restaurants I have ate at anywhere and it’s very reasonably priced. 

Awesome. If we have time, will check it out. I get in at 7 local tomorrow so no dinner. Should have time Friday though. Saturday we are onsite super late.

posted by Laley23

Heading out there for work tomorrow. Of course they have us staying at the Marriott TPC Resort and not the strip. Hotel blockings were for the Cosmo (my favorite), but due to COVID NBC pushing us as far away from crowds as possible. 

Thought you were getting out of the TV business?

posted by queencitybuckeye

Thought you were getting out of the TV business?

Attempting. Finished up classes in August and have had a few interviews since. Thought I had a job with Amazon but stalled after 2nd interview.

A few things keeping me in the industry at the moment:

1. No daycare with me home M-T. Wife works from home and can manage Fridays and the occasional odd trip where I’m gone earlier or home later than standard Thursday night flight Sunday am flight.
2. Not willing to take a significant payout right now. Maybe in future, when being home will matter more to me, but not right this second. And unfortunately while my skills match 99% for these jobs (maybe even overqualified on a lot), employers don’t see the experience they want, and I can’t even get an interview to explain

1. Things are shifting in my company due to COVID, and I may be in line for a bee position with 10% the travel of now. I’d be the client service rep for NBC Sports or CBS Sports, which would be a lot more work, but a decent pay increase and WFH plus travel only around 10-15x a year. 

We try to see new places as much as possible. Spain will probably be our repeat trip every few years, as we have close family friends near Barcelone who also have a shorefront home on the sea. Before COVID, we had a beach trip planned to Barbados and were thinking Japan and the Balkans in the near future. We also try to mix in U.S. travels to visit cities where friends have relocated.

Twenty so years we spent a week on Lake James in NW Indiana so i guess one could say finding a place and sticking to it for myself.

The good is you know the area well, have traditions on what to do and where to go and can picture yourself doing all those things all year long waiting to go back.

New place when you truly know how to get around and what to do you are ready to pack up and go home.

Prefer a place that i KNOW I wil have fun and look forward to each year and it takes away a lot of the questions of what to do, etc.