Comments on: Rest planning

By: Jean | Holy Smithereens

Jean | Holy Smithereens — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:26:42 +0000

haha I know what you mean about trying to fit as much in as little time. For me, part of travel being a good experience , you need to feel good while you’re travelling. if my memory of a place or city will just be running around going train ride after train ride, then its not going to make for a pleasant memory. As I’ve aged my “rest planning” has become more and more frequent 😉

By: Alex-Wanderlust Marriage

Alex-Wanderlust Marriage — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:04:22 +0000

“Back at the travel agency I worked with many young adults visiting Europe for the first time. Because they had limited time and wanted to maximize their trip, their schedules were very go – go – go. City after city, train ride after train ride.”

Haha, I was one of those young adults you helped back in the day that was planning some go go trips! Though I did mix that up when I could and spent awhile in some places. It costs a lot more to travel so fast but when you’re young you have the energy and it was exciting to constantly be in new countries. We prefer to travel slow these days ourselves, even without kids, but we’ve already seen a lot too, as you have.

By: Rhonda Albom

Rhonda Albom — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:34:50 +0000

Hubby and I just tried something new – a few overseas days purely for rest. Great advice here.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:51:29 +0000

Funny you should mention that. I was going to go on a tangent about our trip to London and how we didn’t get too much rest time and we had a busy, mostly preplanned itinerary. But, I decided to keep it out. I loved our preplanned itinerary because we saw what we want to saw and, other than that first day, I didn’t feel too rushed the rest of the time.

By: Farrah

Farrah — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:22:02 +0000

We know all too well how important rest is to the family on a trip 🙂 Unfortunately (as you know too well) when Mom gets away it’s usually for a short period of time and not ‘restful’ at all 🙂

By: jenny@atasteoftravel

jenny@atasteoftravel — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:52:29 +0000

I know exactly what you mean Ann. I used to tell my clients that they would be coming home for a holiday! These days we only ever book 3 day stays as a minimum but we prefer to plan for 5 days which more than often extends by a day or two if we are loving a place!

By: Calli

Calli — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:59:08 +0000

Good point Ann, even as 20 somethings that want to see it all we’ve quickly realized the importance of rest. Without it you just hit a wall.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:57:51 +0000

I think rest days are extremely important for kids of all ages. In fact, the younger ones seem more able to go with the flow than some of the older ones!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:06:27 +0000

We’re in our 30s and I’ve started really eliminating the 2-nighters. The 1-nighters are very, very rare (a stop along the way, or a day trip that we want to spend more time at) We will only do that if we’re close enough to the place that it feels ok. Whereas there was a time when I picked the fewer nights because it automatically made it cheaper.

By: Anabel

Anabel — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:51:10 +0000

All very true, and not just with kids. As we get older (both nearer 60 than 50 these days, sigh) we try to stay longer in each place on a road-trip. First the one night stops went, now we’ve eliminated two-nighters. And there is ALWAYS enough to do.