2026 travel plans

[Flashback]

Well, I have nothing planned for after May.

I'm struggling to find any decent J airfares from Asia to Europe, but hopefully something will come up in the next few months.

Things aint what they used to be, that's for sure.

Define decent? MNL to MXP has J fares for around $3k return for most of the year...

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm struggling to find any decent J airfares from Asia to Europe, but hopefully something will come up in the next few months.

I had a quick look at TK ex Australia to Europe for next year, and they were, from bad memory c $4,000 or so. May have screwed it upo, but I'm getting my TA to look closely when she comes back from hols.

 

[Forg]

I didn’t think my musings were worthy of their own thread, so I’ll plonk them (and associated questions) here.

My wife & I a’re in the planning stages of getting a house built, so haven’t wanted to go away for extended periods as the builder’s really tardy & we can’t afford the chance of stretching things out by not getting back to them immediately with answers to any query. So it’s been a while even since considering it.
We were probably going to do a US trip next, but now I think we’ll wait ‘til they open their borders up to tourism again.

Now we have quite a few places we’d like to go in Europe, but they’re relatively separated from each other. We’ve already had a couple of Europe & a couple of UK trips, and on those I did what I’d do for a road-trip heading out from Sydney, and planned to check-out as many things as possible along the way … basically chose a few things we really wanted to do & found things to look-at & places to stay etc while traveling in between those “keystone” places.

But this next one is looking like maybe I’ll plan a bit differently. Maybe arrive in a place & spend 4-5 days there just looking around locally there, then probably use a train to head straight to the next place where we’ll spend 4-5 days. Not even really trying to find things to look at in between, obviously not a rule set in stone but a bit different to previous trips which were mostly planned around moving most of the time - and which probably means more surprise locations BUT also means lost time in prepping to leave & finding your way to accommodation & that initial sussing-out of the local transport yadda yadda. Effectively going to maybe 5-6 places for 4-5 days apiece, rather than passing-through a bunch of places but not necessarily having time to check ‘em out (but sometimes you do).

Kinda thought it’d be interesting to ask what youze frequent travellers thought on the difference - going to “a few places” but for “a longer time”, as opposed to yelling Road Trip (albeit needing to pre-book accommodation along the way)?

 

[markis10]

so haven’t wanted to go away for extended periods as the builder’s really tardy

Problem solved


Works with family members being tardy packing their bags for that trip as well

 

[Forg]

I suspect the scale of required jolts might bring the grid down …