2025 travel plans

[Forg]

Hang on... shouldn't that be in the 2024 Travel Plans thread?

Jokes aside, hope it wasn't/isn't for anything serious.

Nope, but thanks for the well-wishing!
Jeez you're right though! My thought-process was that we're moving into somewhere with almost zero garden-maintenance, and once that's settles I'm hoping to be able to arrange Travel Plans for 2025, I had 2025 in mind and hence blurted the above ... totally forgetting how irrelevant it was.

 

[dinhoecotour]

I have a day free while I'm in Can Tho so that may be an option?

If having one day free only, you should stay in Can Tho or take a day trip to its neighboring province.

 

[KitKat]

DSC is bad for the pocket..
From only one Ski trip in Japan to..
- another ski trip in Japan
- another hiking trip in Japan
- trip to Cairns
- trip to AKL
- trip to Scotland

 

[serfty]

Currently booked and/or in Progress:

• Late January trip to Japan.
• Mid February DSC run between MEL/BNE/SYD & AKL
• Early March, Auckland Dinner, returning via CNS.
• Early May, Cairns again
• Late May, OzFest Adelaide
• June, Japan via Fiji, Tokyo Lounge Crawl
• Early November, Budapest/Warsaw/Doha via London, return via USA.

Will be booking:

• Several weeks in Asia for Hotel Matteress runs.
• Various other trips, utilizing the benifits of status along with re-earning status.

 

[elanshin]

Honestly, Fukushima and Aomori are great for snow. Aomori has the highest snowfall of anywhere in the world. It’s crazy fun. There’s also a cool winter festival called the Towada Winters Tale held near Lake Towada. Worth checking out.

I've been to Tohoku twice, loved Sendai but honestly I need to go again (I'm thinking Akita in snow)...but I'll never do the kind of travel you prefer, clearly. And that's a good thing! We are all different.

I missed it in 22-23 season. They decided not to run it that year =(

But being in Tohoku during heavy snow season I'll just say it's both really cool to see but also a bit of a walking hazard. My partner on the first day in Aomori decided shes going to walk in the footsteps of a local. Then watched him trip and fall 30s later.

Also when blizzard kicks up, thats your day gone you're camping up somewhere nice and cozy.

 

[elanshin]

Current Plans.,

NYE - Japan (unepexted HND - SYD release meant a random unplanned trip to start OWA).
Mid March - Tokyo (work)
May?/July? Either Queenstown or Bali, deciding with partner now (OWA)
October - EU (OWA)
Nov - SIN (Work)

I'm sure i'll have a couple more Mainland China, Japan and Singapore trips in there for work throughout the year.

 

[AisleSeat]

So far I have a week in Algarve for my parents 50th anniversary, with a day in Frankfurt on the way there. We’re talking about a week in Vietnam though.

 

[RooFlyer]

I think Japan wins as the most popular destination for next year.

Just don't be going and getting arrested y'hear?

 

[Forg]

I think Japan wins as the most popular destination for next year.

Just don't be going and getting arrested y'hear?

Is there a way to find out how high each city's or region's OMFG -we're-so-sick-of-tourists-ometer is reading?

 

[DejaBrew]

Is there a way to find out how high each city's or region's OMFG -we're-so-sick-of-tourists-ometer is reading?

Something like this?

Tourist tax: These are the destinations you’ll have to pay to enter

Beware of these hidden costs – these are all of the destinations due to impose tourist tax

www.cntraveller.com

 

[dinhoecotour]

So far I have a week in Algarve for my parents 50th anniversary, with a day in Frankfurt on the way there. We’re talking about a week in Vietnam though.

What is your plan in Vietnam?

 

[Hunter4vr]

• January - Japan for 8 days (Osaka, Kyoto and surrounds)
• May - Singapore
• June - Europe for 7 weeks (Belgium Trappist beer tour, Champagne region, Alsace, Luxembourg, Poland, Granada, Corfu, Dublin, Edinburgh and St Andrews).
• October - Queensland
• December - Potentially a trip to the Maldives but that depends if I can snag some reward flights

 

[rbjhan]

I missed it in 22-23 season. They decided not to run it that year =(

But being in Tohoku during heavy snow season I'll just say it's both really cool to see but also a bit of a walking hazard. My partner on the first day in Aomori decided shes going to walk in the footsteps of a local. Then watched him trip and fall 30s later.

Also when blizzard kicks up, thats your day gone you're camping up somewhere nice and cozy.

I mainly want to go to a ryokan and soak in onsen surrounded by snow!
But yes you need ice cleats to walk, at least I do!
Pair the cleats with something like this:

Columbia Minx Mid III Insulated Winter Boots Black / Ti Grey Steel

We made a classic lace-up even better. Step out in style and protection with this seam-sealed, waterproof boot with faux fur. Featuring 200 grams of insulation, thermal reflective lining, and a non-marking traction rubber outsole for sure-footed comfort.

www.columbiasportswear.com.au

And yes I have one pair of those even though 0% chance of wearing it here