Every year, I try to go on a “long” vacation (at least 2 weeks), a “short” vacation (about 1 week), a few visits to Disneyland Paris (DLP, 2-5 days) and maybe a city trip (Or two. Or three.)
Our long vacation this year was a trip to NYC-Miami-Cruise in the Caribbean-WDW. We went to DLP in July, August and probably again in December, to Champagne in August, to Paris in October, so the only thing missing in the list is the “short” vacation.
Our first idea was to go back to the US again. With the dollar being so cheap, it’s a very affordable destination, as long as you can avoid costly items as rental cars (because of all the insurances that are added, it’s a very costly affair) and expensive theme park tickets. We wanted nice weather, shopping close by, … At some point, I found an American destination that covered all of that: Las Vegas. If you don’t want some fancy-schmancy huge suite in a specific hotel, there are a lot of good deals to be found around for deluxe hotels there. It seemed like a great plan. And then the plan started to grow. Let’s go visit the Grand Canyon while we are there! It’s close enough to California, let’s add a few days at Disneyland! Not only the plans started to grow, also the price tag started to grow. Until it reached the point of me saying “OK, I really want to go on this trip, but I can’t justify the price tag anymore, because it’s only a “short” vacation that is not supposed to cost a fortune.
Bye bye Venetian, bye bye Jungle cruise.
So, I started browsing the net again, to find a nice one-week vacation around the Med. Maybe back to Morocco like last year? Nope, haven’t forgotten yet us being sick the whole week. Or maybe back to Tunesia? Been there twice, but it were both great vacations, and not expensive. Or maybe Turkey? But which place to chose? I don’t want the only “entertainment” being night clubs. And I want nice weather. Malta, Cyprus, … all a little too expensive.
OK, I am bored at work, nothing to do, let’s see how much cheaper that 10-day Baltic cruise at the end of August is. Hey, wait a minute! They have Med cruises too! And holy cow, they are not expensive at all!!!!!!! So, some text messages to my mom later, the decision has been made: we’re going on a Med cruise! And that evening, the decision is made which one: a Royal Caribbean one leaving from Venice going to the Croatia and the Greek islands (nevermind I hate Greece, lol, but I loved the price!)
It took a while for my vacation request to be approved, but once I got the approval, 15 minutes later, everything was booked lol!
We were going to leave on October 2 to Venice from Charleroi (don’t be fooled, Brussels South airport is nowhere near Brussels) flying Ryanair. We would stay one night at the Hilton Stucky Molino in Venice, and on October 3 we were going to board the Splendour of the Seas to go to Split (Croatia), Cyprus, Athens, Mykonos and Katakolon (port for Olympia). On October 10, we’d fly back to Charleroi with Ryanair.
It’s a good thing I knew I was going to sleep/ eat on board, because otherwise, I might not have agreed going to Greece again, lol!
So, no Venetian and Jungle Cruise for us in October, but Venice and a Med cruise!!!!!
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