Tours are great if you have the money and like a structured travel experience. If I travel with Hubby, that just will not happen. He likes to go with no preparation and freewheel it, preferably on a bicycle.
I have to do some planning due to my health. My planning consists of brainstorming all the options, running them by everyone going, getting their opinions, devising one thing to do every day (so Hubby has his freewheeling time while I nap), finding and booking transportation and accommodations, and any tickets necessary. In short I act as a travel agent/tour guide.
I have had 1 1/2 years lifespan on my pacemaker for 3 years now. I am not willing to pay the travel medical insurance to go do something that exhausts me and might put me in a precarious medical situation in a foreign country. Itâs great some people can travel well into their 70s or 80s, but that is more unusual than usual in my experience. I donât know about other places, but in Canada travel medical insurance goes through the roof after you turn eighty.
No wonder you donât want to travel anymore. From what you described I wouldnât want to either. I used to plan everything when I was married but divorced 2 years ago and now do what I want. I didnât think I would like tours but at 68 I do. They are more expensive so I wonât take as many vacations which is a trade off that I am fine with. Thanks for explanation.
I think what I took away from the above discussion was hit your bucket list while you can because there is no guarantee that tomorrow youâll be able to. Health being a big possible limitation, but also, unfortunately, politics (war), natural disasters, or other circumstances (thinking of the Notre Dame fire) . The world changes.
With regards to travel, Human and I travel well together, but this year took some separate trips for purely logistical reasons (I visited my sis after an east coast trip for work, he did a weekend with friends while I had to work, etc) I want to endorse this as a way of not holding each other back, even if there is a lot of âwish you were hereâ. And traveling together is more fun after. But sometimes CA hard to line up schedules, and this way you get solo time with fam and friends which is also valuableâŚ
Thanks everyone. I used to travel alone within Canada to visit relatives. But those relatives are in Ireland and Portugal for the winter. So we moved near my other relatives. Thereâs less travel time!
I never understood the appeal of all inclusives because if I wanted to sit around and relax I could do that at home. When I go on vacation I want to see the sights.
Cruising is great as you get older because you can get off at the ports but itâs less work since you only pack and unpack once. Plus no decisions to be made as all your restaurants and entertainment are on the ship. Age is very unforgiving and people get struck down physically sometimes young even if they did all the âright â things.
Thatâs why I am going to Europe in April and again the next year to finish my bucket list. 8 of my friends died in their 60âs with none abusing their bodies so really no guarantees when it comes to your health. People are under the illusion that they can control these things.
Before having kids I wasnât sure about all inclusives, but I dis my first beach vacation (not all inclusive) a few years before and decided I completely could do a beach all inclusive.
Last year we did cuba. It was amazing! No cooking, no cleaning, fresh towels. Unlimited mainly non alcoholic drinks (in Italy the tap water was brackish so every five minutes was another several euros on beverages).
@pinktutu I think a resort with lots of sporty amenities (bikes, catamarans etc) could work for travelling with your husband. Or better yet take a daughter or sister. And way cheaper than in Canada.
At home I am always doing laundry, dishes, cooking etc. at an all inclusive I just walked to the restaurant and the pool and beach
There is a time and a place for every type of travel. I love that at this point in history we have nearly unlimited options for how much or little support we can pay for while seeing exciting places.
I donât do beach vacations either. I want to see the sights on vacation. Even when I cruised the Caribbean I didnât ever go to a beach. I can do that at home in the summer. Even when I had kids at home paying to sit around doing nothing was never my thing.
Luckily no one in my family likes it either so never any conflict when traveling. As my son said once âwe arenât beach people.â Now I have a good friend from high school that loves to travel with me and we are the same luckily. Her husband no longer likes to travel. If we were all the same it would be boring:)).
Well thatâs interesting because the people I have known to go to all inclusives didnât do anything. I didnât know there were tours, etc. See what happens when I assume . Actually when I was married I did all the research and planning and we didnât take tours. It was much cheaper to do it that way.
Now I do because I am not going to trek around with just my friend as neither of us have any sense of direction, etc and I think itâs safer with a man. My husband had a great sense of direction so that was his role.
I spent every summer at my parentâs resort and have been swimming since I was 4đ. I know plenty of people that love beach vacations.
Seriously itâs so important for travel partners to be compatible or itâs an exercise in misery. My friend had a great marriage but she didnât travel well with her husband. I actually took a trip with my best friend and we didnât travel well together either.
But sometimes CA hard to line up schedules, and this way you get solo time with fam and friends which is also valuableâŚ
. Actually when I was married I did all the research and planning and we didnât take tours. It was much cheaper to do it that way.