Best holiday destinations

[astoria67]

18th Century pub Bucket of Blood,Hayle not far from St Ives.Did decent meals but that was a few years ago.

 

[leedswolf]

In the whole of Cornwall? Dull week that will be

I'm guessing that you haven't tried Verdant yet?

 

[Kenny]

I have not

 

[leedswolf]

Then trust me. Verdant is all you need. Forget Sharps or Skinners.

 

[Langers]

The Blue Anchor is Helston is good. The home of Spingoes.

 

[lemonjelly]

I loved lands End. There's a lovely little cove near there called Sennen Cove.
I've always meant to visit Tintagel, but never quite made it.

 

[Paul]

Has anyone ever been to Japan, that's my latest thing, but my only knowledge is from Youtube videos ?

 

[PPB]

Has anyone ever been to Japan, that's my latest thing, but my only knowledge is from Youtube videos ?

Paul that is my dream. You can keep your usual/norm destinations, for me Japan is my all time holiday
destination. I will get there one day. One day

 

[Freddeno]

i would like to go to japan too..one of my destinations in life

 

[Keef]

Don't know if it'll help but have a look at crazyguyonabike.com type in Japan in the search box,the site is touring cyclists blogs/journals/photos,you'll possibly end up spending hours on there but might help with what Japan is like,as seen through foreigners eyes spending a lot of time going slowly through the country

 

[Paul]

Cool, ta mate

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

We went to Butlins Minehead a couple of weeks ago and the kids enjoyed it so much we've just booked the Skegness one for May. Belle's school have helpfully lumped all the teacher training days into w/c 21/05 giving us the chance to book a week at term time prices which was nice. A few years ago I'd have never even thought about a holiday like Butlins and now I'll have gone twice in less than a year!

The mother in law has come up trumps again too and is taking us on a cruise to Spain & Portugal in August which I am VERY excited about. Cruises are ace. I manage to fit a whole months worth of eating into one week One of the stops is Porto, so I'll have to make sure I have some sort of Wolves top on that day!

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

The mother in law has come up trumps again too and is taking us on a cruise to Spain & Portugal in August which I am VERY excited about. Cruises are ace. I manage to fit a whole months worth of eating into one week One of the stops is Porto, so I'll have to make sure I have some sort of Wolves top on that day!

Myself and my missus are going on our first Cruise ever in 2 weeks, 5 nights around the Bahamas. Cannot wait! I've just spent this morning checking out all the different menu's in all the different restaurants, its a Royal Caribbean cruise so theres 3 restaurants, a Johnny Rockets diner, a self service buffet and a pizza place. Plus Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's outlets.

I'm glad we did our research, as we looked at the prices of drinks ($10 for a glass of wine, $7 for a beer, $13 for a cocktail) and decided to get an Unlimited drinks voucher for $250 each, which should save us a fortune overall.

An one of the islands we stop off at is owned by Royal Caribbean, so drinks on the island are covered too!

Might upgrade our room though, as it's an inward facing cabin on the lower decks, would prefer a room with a view. Not sure about cost though.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Myself and my missus are going on our first Cruise ever in 2 weeks, 5 nights around the Bahamas. Cannot wait! I've just spent this morning checking out all the different menu's in all the different restaurants, its a Royal Caribbean cruise so theres 3 restaurants, a Johnny Rockets diner, a self service buffet and a pizza place. Plus Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's outlets.

I'm glad we did our research, as we looked at the prices of drinks ($10 for a glass of wine, $7 for a beer, $13 for a cocktail) and decided to get an Unlimited drinks voucher for $250 each, which should save us a fortune overall.

An one of the islands we stop off at is owned by Royal Caribbean, so drinks on the island are covered too!

Might upgrade our room though, as it's an inward facing cabin on the lower decks, would prefer a room with a view. Not sure about cost though.

Wouldn't worry about the room personally.

We went on a cruise last year and paid a bit extra for an outside cabin but it was pointless in hindsight, the only time there was really much of a view was when you were in port somewhere so we weren't on the boat then anyway, it's just a place to sleep and it's not even like there's anywhere to sit in the cabin and enjoy the view.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Wouldn't worry about the room personally.

We went on a cruise last year and paid a bit extra for an outside cabin but it was pointless in hindsight, the only time there was really much of a view was when you were in port somewhere so we weren't on the boat then anyway, it's just a place to sleep and it's not even like there's anywhere to sit in the cabin and enjoy the view.

True. I was thinking of a room with a bit of balcony outside with chairs. But thats probably gonna cost another $1000

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Myself and my missus are going on our first Cruise ever in 2 weeks, 5 nights around the Bahamas. Cannot wait! I've just spent this morning checking out all the different menu's in all the different restaurants, its a Royal Caribbean cruise so theres 3 restaurants, a Johnny Rockets diner, a self service buffet and a pizza place. Plus Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's outlets.

I'm glad we did our research, as we looked at the prices of drinks ($10 for a glass of wine, $7 for a beer, $13 for a cocktail) and decided to get an Unlimited drinks voucher for $250 each, which should save us a fortune overall.

An one of the islands we stop off at is owned by Royal Caribbean, so drinks on the island are covered too!

Might upgrade our room though, as it's an inward facing cabin on the lower decks, would prefer a room with a view. Not sure about cost though.

I'm the opposite to Mark - if you can afford to upgrade to an outside view, I'd recommend it. I really enjoyed watching the boat sail into the port in the mornings, especially as we were in the fjords on the last cruise. We were always up early though (as we have kids) so I guess if you don't get up until after the ship has docked then it's a bit different. Plus, I've never actually had to pay for the room myself so have no idea in the difference in price.

The food on cruises is amazing btw. Some mornings I went for a 2nd go at the breakfast buffet at around 11am just because I could!

 

[MARKakaJIM]

True. I was thinking of a room with a bit of balcony outside with chairs. But thats probably gonna cost another $1000

It depends what you're likely to be doing, there were plenty of people on ours that never left the boat so having your own private space would be useful if that's your approach, got pretty cramped up on the top deck around the pool with people sunbathing. We got off at every destination though so barely spent anytime time on board in the day, usually got back not long before setting sail and could have a peak out the window as we left port then we'd be getting ready to go to dinner and spend the rest of the night around the ship.

I'm the opposite to Mark - if you can afford to upgrade to an outside view, I'd recommend it. I really enjoyed watching the boat sail into the port in the mornings, especially as we were in the fjords on the last cruise. We were always up early though (as we have kids) so I guess if you don't get up until after the ship has docked then it's a bit different. Plus, I've never actually had to pay for the room myself so have no idea in the difference in price.

The food on cruises is amazing btw. Some mornings I went for a 2nd go at the breakfast buffet at around 11am just because I could!

We didn't get up early enough to see us dock once, most of the sailing was through fairly open water too so wasn't really anything to see apart from two shades of blue separated by a straight line, think when we left Mahon was the only interesting view we had, seemed like quite a long channel coming out of port back to open water.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

We didn't get up early enough to see us dock once, most of the sailing was through fairly open water too so wasn't really anything to see apart from two shades of blue separated by a straight line, think when we left Mahon was the only interesting view we had, seemed like quite a long channel coming out of port back to open water.

Yeah, if you're not spending much time in your room and won't make much use of the view then it's probably not worth the extra cost. It's nice to watch the boat sail away from port too but you can watch that from anywhere on the ship.

The kids enjoyed watching the boat sail in to port too:

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

It depends what you're likely to be doing, there were plenty of people on ours that never left the boat so having your own private space would be useful if that's your approach, got pretty cramped up on the top deck around the pool with people sunbathing. We got off at every destination though so barely spent anytime time on board in the day, usually got back not long before setting sail and could have a peak out the window as we left port then we'd be getting ready to go to dinner and spend the rest of the night around the ship.



We didn't get up early enough to see us dock once, most of the sailing was through fairly open water too so wasn't really anything to see apart from two shades of blue separated by a straight line, think when we left Mahon was the only interesting view we had, seemed like quite a long channel coming out of port back to open water.

We will be visiting a few island and doing the excursions on them so won't be on the boat if we are docked, so Im kind of agreeing with you about the upgrade. I plan on being pissed mostly anyway, so will only be sleeping in the cabin.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

The caribbean. Unbelievable place. First time here, definitely won't be the last.

Great weather, 34 degrees with lovely cool winds, amazing food and cocktails, reggae music everywhere and very chilled people. Love it.

Oh yeah, and the beaches...... white sands and warm water that is crystal clear.