Discussion
TLDR; How far would you travel, for a two week holiday?
The UK is fairly well positioned for international air travel; the outer edges of Europe can be reached within 4 hours, East coast of America 8 – 12 hours. I think the limit for most holidaying Brits, is somewhere like Thailand 12 hours, beyond that they start to get a bit phased.
Compare that with NZ/Aus/SA or the likes of Argentina, there is some serious travel involved, to get to destination we commonly associate with tourism. However, they probably have access to destinations the Brits would never go to, because of distance, but due to location less crowded.
I have friends in Eastern Russia; anything administrative, involves a flight to Moscow 8 – 9 hours. Depending on where you live in Russia, may dictate where you holiday to some extent.
As an example, the Cook Islands, seems very popular with Kiwis and Aussies alike and looks a lovely destination. I doubt many Americans or Europeans would make the journey, I may be wrong with that assumption.
How far would you travel, for a two week holiday?
The UK is fairly well positioned for international air travel; the outer edges of Europe can be reached within 4 hours, East coast of America 8 – 12 hours. I think the limit for most holidaying Brits, is somewhere like Thailand 12 hours, beyond that they start to get a bit phased.
Compare that with NZ/Aus/SA or the likes of Argentina, there is some serious travel involved, to get to destination we commonly associate with tourism. However, they probably have access to destinations the Brits would never go to, because of distance, but due to location less crowded.
I have friends in Eastern Russia; anything administrative, involves a flight to Moscow 8 – 9 hours. Depending on where you live in Russia, may dictate where you holiday to some extent.
As an example, the Cook Islands, seems very popular with Kiwis and Aussies alike and looks a lovely destination. I doubt many Americans or Europeans would make the journey, I may be wrong with that assumption.
How far would you travel, for a two week holiday?
It’s not so much the distance, it’s the aggro caused by transfers. Coming from NE Scotland anything long haul is at least one if not two transfers. Going to Bali this year for 2 weeks, but it’s only an hour more than Thailand, and a single 2 hour transfer at Doha so fine. Went to Perth (Oz) from Glasgow a few years ago for 4 work days… won’t be repeating that!
The only major destinations I don’t think I’d consider are Oz and NZ. I did look at doing a 9 day trip to Oz in September but it just didn’t seem worth it as the first couple of days would likely be a write off, also quite expensive. A friend recently did 3 days in Sydney to burn some air miles. Madman.
I also think it depends on which direction you're travelling. North/South in roughly the same time zone is easiest to deal with. I find traveling west easier to deal with than travelling east where it takes me much longer to recover so would happily do a longer flight for a shorter duration.
RichFN2 said:
Generally 6 hours for 1 week, 12 hours for 2 weeks. Anything longer than 14 hours/connecting flight at Singapore etc would be 3 weeks as a minimum.
Yup pretty much this.Our first time to Tobago we did one week. From that point on the above criteria were derived.............
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