Holidays after retirement

Ally · 04-03-2006, 04:22 AM

Do you go with specialised groups?

Are you as adventurous as you were before retirement?

Where are your favourite destinations?

What sort of advice would you give retired people who are thinking about going away on a holiday for the first time?

judytata11 · 04-29-2006, 06:57 AM

I can retire any time but will probably work a year or two more. The trip I'd love to do when I retire is a world cruise and I just might do it. Other trips that appeal to me are the extended stays...maybe Spain or Portugal.

**Captain Larry** · 04-29-2006, 11:18 AM

I have travelled much more since I retired than before. Well, I did a lot of "business" travel before, especially with the US Navy. Since retirement, we have generally gone on cruises or escorted land tours, although we have done a couple of purely independent tours. The only recurring theme is the annual week or two at a US East Coast beach venue. That is usually somewhere between Delaware and South Carolina, and usually in September, the better to experience uncrowded conditions. Flexibility of time is the biggest asset, although, in our case, we really have more money to spend now than we ever had when I was working. God is good and He makes my life good, too.

FlRic · 04-30-2006, 03:55 PM

Ditto Capt. Larry's sentiments. Although we have travelled all over the world for 30 years we have travelled far more often since retirement. In fact, I am going to have to slow down for health reasons but we have been almost everywhere we want to go so God is REAL GOOD!!!

Ally · 05-01-2006, 03:06 AM

I retired at 26 on health grounds, but put my spare cash into cars and motorbikes til around a year or so ago when I thought it time to try and act my age...a little bit.

So the finances are now going back to travelling. I did alot of travelling with family when they were still around and when I was younger and I also did a great deal of travel in Europe when driving for a living too.

So as of last year, I decided that travel was important, while I can still do it, so I am squirrelling as much money as I can from my very small disability benefits each week, so that I can treat myself a little bit.

amoroso · 07-24-2006, 02:34 AM

I entend to go on travelling (once i'm retired taht is and that isn't for tomorrow). I think that retirement is realy the occasion to do all those things you kept pushing back saying 'one day'....

floflegs · 07-24-2006, 05:09 AM

The main beefit we have found from being retired is that we do not have to take holidays in the high season. As we were both school teachers all our holidays when working were in the peak period. Now we go when we want, more often and at about half the cost! We like to try new places but also like to revisit our favourites.

FlRic · 07-24-2006, 08:54 AM

The saddest thing in the world is that person who puts off doin' stuff until retirement only to find that A. Their partner ( travelling companion) did not live long enough or B. their health no longer allows them to travel.Many years ago we were in Athens at the Acropolis and saw many buses full of senior citizens parked around the bottom because the passengers could no longer make the arduous climb to the top where all the temples (and the Parthenon) are located. We resolved right then and there to never wait to travel for fear we would have to sit on the bus!!

sully10 · 07-24-2006, 10:09 AM

yes i agree, that can be very sad and it's what happened to my mum in law. She kept planning on them doing this and that once they would of retired but my farther in law died 5 years ago, she will be retired net year but now whe's all alone and doesn't feel like doing all the stuff she had planned that way. her dream was to do it with her husband

SeanR · 09-01-2006, 05:47 AM

I'm not retired yet but my wife and I have already planned to travel a lot and have made up a long list of destinations during the past years. We hope that life will let us go through the whole list..