Your go to vacation spots

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

Fort Myers Beach Florida is our special spot.
And we just love this hotel. You cant beat a Tiki bar right on the beach.

Fort Myers Beach Waterfront Resort Hotel with Beach Front Rooms in Southwest Florida - The Outrigger

That looks like a go in laughing come out scratching hotel. No thanks.

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by mredskins

That looks like a go in laughing come out scratching hotel. No thanks.

Uh, no its not.
Its a very nice place.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

My wife and I are getting ready to book some vacations for the upcoming year. What are some of your go to vacation spots? You know... those places you love to go back to over and over.

Ours are Clearwater Fl., planning a trip there in April... nothing like relaxing on the beach with a drink in hand and it's a quick 2 1/2 hour non-stop flight for us.

New Orleans, planning to go again in May... for anyone who loves food, drink and music, hard to beat the Big Easy.

Chicago, big city but it has a small city feel. Great food and lot's to do.

NYC, what can I say, 2 hour train ride from where we live, always a great time in the big apple.

Let's hear some of yours.

Oh to not have kids, I LOVE my kids but at times I get jealous of the freedom some folks have without them.

I will live through you!

We generally go to DE Beach's but thsi year we are doing Nag's head. The drive could be killer with a 5 year old and 2 year old. Vacations with small kids though fun is a LOT of work.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Key West and Vegas. My favorite places to go where you can get into absolutely anything you want to. Fun drinking and fun eating.

New Orleans is tops on our list of places to go next because I imagine it's very similar to Vegas and Key West.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Key West and Vegas. My favorite places to go where you can get into absolutely anything you want to. Fun drinking and fun eating.

New Orleans is tops on our list of places to go next because I imagine it's very similar to Vegas and Key West.

I love both places I'd take New Orleans over Vegas personally.

There's just something about being able to drink in the streets and walk around bar to bar hearing great music everywhere. Plus the food is just insane.

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I love both places I'd take New Orleans over Vegas personally.

There's just something about being able to drink in the streets and walk around bar to bar hearing great music everywhere. Plus the food is just insane.

The stickiest hand rail in the whole world is in the stairway at the Tropical Isle bar on Bourbon Street.

Another anecdote I have is that at some Bourbon street bar I dont remember I was sexually molested by a waitress because I would not buy a shot off her shot tray. I eventually did buy the shot so she would stop dry humping my hip.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Alvin Walton

The stickiest hand rail in the whole world is in the stairway at the Tropical Isle bar on Bourbon Street.

Another anecdote I have is that at some Bourbon street bar I dont remember I was sexually molested by a waitress because I would not buy a shot off her shot tray. I eventually did buy the shot so she would stop dry humping my hip.

Bourbon St is like a circus sideshow. Never seen anything quite like it.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Bourbon St is like a circus sideshow. Never seen anything quite like it.

I was there in September and it looked like a collection of people trying way too hard to be 'crazy'.

Some very nice restaurants off Bourbon St if you look for them. Stay away from the Hand Grenades and Hurricane carrying oiks and you're fine.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I love both places I'd take New Orleans over Vegas personally.

There's just something about being able to drink in the streets and walk around bar to bar hearing great music everywhere. Plus the food is just insane.

Exactly. I know that we've talked about this in the past (and maybe I forgot) but if you haven't, YOU need to go to Key West. :headbange

Again, I haven't been to New Orleans, but I can't imagine a place like Key West where you walk into CVS on Duval Street, buy a six pack and crack it open walking down the sidewalk. You can walk anywhere in that town at any hour of night and feel safe too.

[Lotus]

Leh, India. Incredible laid-back beauty among 20,000 ft. Himalayan peaks.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Exactly. I know that we've talked about this in the past (and maybe I forgot) but if you haven't, YOU need to go to Key West. :headbange

Again, I haven't been to New Orleans, but I can't imagine a place like Key West where you walk into CVS on Duval Street, buy a six pack and crack it open walking down the sidewalk. You can walk anywhere in that town at any hour of night and feel safe too.

yeah, Key West is actually my number one destination spot right now with Yellowstone National park close behind. Colorado is close as well. Like to do New Orleans as well. I need to get to work

[MTK]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

Exactly. I know that we've talked about this in the past (and maybe I forgot) but if you haven't, YOU need to go to Key West. :headbange

Again, I haven't been to New Orleans, but I can't imagine a place like Key West where you walk into CVS on Duval Street, buy a six pack and crack it open walking down the sidewalk. You can walk anywhere in that town at any hour of night and feel safe too.

Yeah Key West is on our list, someday we'll get there no doubt

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Yeah Key West is on our list, someday we'll get there no doubt

Make sure to go snorkeling. Actually fly in to Miami and drive down, Drive is beautiful and you should stop and check out some of the other keys along the way.
Snorkeling is great in Key Largo Welcome to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park - Key Largo, Florida Keys
Dry Tortugas trip is awesome.
Key West really does not feel like the USA

Dry Tortugas National Park - Dry Tortugas National Park

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Yeah Key West is on our list, someday we'll get there no doubt

Funny, I'm going there for the first time this year. Only problem is that I'll be missing a Redskins game. Anyone know any good bar spots that show all NFL games in Key West/Florida Keys area?

As far as great Vacation spots that I've been to:

If you want the beach, family wise (North) Myrtle Beach is great.

If you want to leave the mainland, Hawaii is nice, I go fairly frequently, but maybe its just me but for as nice as it is, people tend to over hype it. If you all go to Hawaii A) don't go to just one Island (or don't just go to Oahu) B) go for more than 1 week. Maui is the best island and is most like Hawaii in terms of what the mainland tourists think of it as.

Also if you want to go to the Bahamas or Virgin islands, Nassau is good, but St. Martin/Marteen is the best. Very quiet, very beautiful, very peaceful, lots to do. A week is just enough to tour/do everything on the island. The most beautiful beach in the world that I've ever been is there, called Prickly Pear. It looks like that beach from your computer desktop background. I would easily go back to St. Martin over a trip to Hawaii any day of the week.

If you don't want to go to a beach, somewhere local and beautiful are the local Shenandoah mountains. We have a cabin up there thats 20 minutes from the Shenandoah river and is in the forest, great for hunting in the winter, fishing in the summer. The wildlife you can see in Virginia is amazing.

Skiing wise, I'm still trying to go to Vale CO and Jackson Hole WY. Which is better of the two?

I agree that Florida has some of the best beaches. Been to Miami's beach. Hear great things about Key West from people, especially from people who have been and have been to the same places I have.

I've been to Cancun and the western beaches of Mexico. I wasn't impressed and it was way to crowded.

Thailand is beautiful and very tourist friendly. But obviously a LOT of money to travel to.

Been to Toronto. There was a trash strike there so I didn't get to see the ''good side'' of the city.

NYC is still the best city in the world. If you can't find something to do there, theres something wrong with you. I still need to get up there to see the new WTC memorial.

I still want to go to Australia and Bora Bora.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I love both places I'd take New Orleans over Vegas personally.

There's just something about being able to drink in the streets and walk around bar to bar hearing great music everywhere. Plus the food is just insane.

Do they harass you with strip club flyers in N.O. as they do in Vegas? That got a bit old in Las Vegas when I went there two months ago.