@2many2no@heartny But you still have to do laundry, cook, dishes and go to the grocery store. Right? Or do vacations save you from that too?
My last vacation was in 2008 - yellowstone camping with a friend and kids - hers and mine. The kids learned some valuable lessons:
1)You don’t roast marshmallows with plastic forks
2) bears can, in fact, climb trees (people were banging on things to make it leave and it jumped our tent guyline, climbed the tree right next to us as we were in the tent - saw the shadow of it - and then sat there for about 5 min in the tree
3) large animals (what kind we don’t know as we didn’t look), in fact, pee on tents at night
4) Buffalo are huge and when they decide to rub against the side view mirror it can break
5) deer skeleton are serious cool
6) tiny, tiny hot springs (like 3-4" in diameter - found some on a hike) are still hot even if they are tiny
7) The natural world has some really, really cool things in it and old faithful isn’t even the most cool of them.
@heartny I believe vacation is the two weeks a year employees are given to clean their homes and do maintenance they can’t do usually because they spend the rest of their lives working.
@OnionSoup And usually it takes a week to prepare for vacation at home and work and then at least a week or two when you get back to work to clean up the mess others left behind trying to cover your work, or not. So basically it’s a wash.
@communist@Dweezle If the assumption is that people usually take vacation in other countries, then that says a lot about the question writer and how much meh pays its staff.
It really depends on where I’m going. I’ve used all of those methods except riding a bike. Screw tha, I’m on vacation. Big cities use mass transit. Countries with shady mass transit, use taxis. Mix the other in depending on the place.
Really depends on where I go. Europe is usually on the metro, Asia is usually a taxi, and US Cities is usually renting a car except in New York City & San Fran where it is Uber.
@CaptAmehrican Yes. When I lived in the Boston harbor it was faster to take the tender than walk, drive (I finally stashed my car at a marine lab my cousin’s husband directed) or take public transportation (gridlock).
Why is there a need to use local transit in the US? You just drive there. How is this not an option? Meh is US only and I bet the vast majority do not travel outside the US for vacation. Drive needs to be an option
@unksol not everyone has a car, or can afford to rent one, or is old enough to rent one. in some cities in the US driving is particularly confusing/miserable for non-locals. moreover, the driving might be doable but there won’t be anywhere to park your car when you arrive at your destination and/or it may cost an arm and a leg. so, those are all reasons why people use public transit on vacation.
(i prefer to drive or drive & then take an uber though, but i’ve gotten lazy(er) and cranky(er) in my old age and just hate the additional walking and being crammed near other people that usually comes with public transit.)
I know someone who travels for business very frequently. Recently, she was in China. The staff of the hotel at which she was staying suggested a taxi in order to get to a meeting. They told her she could use her credit card and were even kind enough to hail one for her; she got in, and went on her way.
Upon arrival at her destination, she handed her credit card to the Taxi driver. He looked at her with a very confused look on his face. Eventually, after a flurry of hand gestures and comments in the driver’s limited English, she figured out that Taxis in Beijing, despite the instructions of the hotel, do not take credit cards! She knew from previous encounters, that most everything in Beijing (and perhaps all of China) is purchased by using an app. Unfortunately that app was NOT Apple Pay!
She was not to be in Beijing for very long. Only one of the meetings took place in a hotel other than hers. It was in an internationally known one in which she most certainly could use a credit card! So, she had not thought it necessary to get any Chinese currency. Of course, sitting in the taxi, she became increasingly anxious. She had run out of options, she stuffed a handful of US currency in the driver’s hand and made a break for it!
She still wonders if she’ll be allowed to return to China; is she on an international Wanted poster for Theft of Services? Or, was the wad of Greenbacks, given the current exchange rate, enough for the taxi driver to retire on?!?
So, to answer the question: when she travels for business, it is always in a taxi. But perhaps it is the next question that is more important. Is “Wad of bills in unknown denominations” an acceptable entry on an expense report?
@jelliott04 Always works in Cambodia (but the dollar is the unofficial currency and EVERYONE takes dollars) and it doesn’t even take a wad. And of course you get your change in Cambodian money, that’s where the math gets tricky.
@jelliott04 The hotel that we stayed at in Shanghai gave us a card with the hotel information in English on one side and in Chinese on the other. They told us that if we were to get lost to just hail any taxi and give them the card and they would bring us back. They said that even if we were to run out of money, we could still take the taxi back and the hotel would cover it. They said the taxis are government operated and it was important to the government for the tourists to be properly taken care of so we shouldn’t worry about being able to get back to the hotel.
@f00l Nope. Jeans and sneakers, all of the way. This is a vacation I am on, I can afford my own carriage, and all of the good Princes are taken already.
Hubby will only go to Martha’s Vineyard. One day we were driving back to where we were staying when we saw Morgan Freeman walking down the path near the Jaws beach. Hubby said, that was Morgan Freeman. I didn’t see him, so we turned around to pass him again. He saw us and pointed our car out to the person he was walking with. Caught. Damn. Now we couldn’t pass him again, so we had to go back the other way. An extra 5 miles on a 4 mile ride!
Although I usually use the local transit, bikeshare in some cities is absolutely wonderful. Santander Cycles in London is 2 pounds for 24 hours of all the rides you can stand, and it’s a lot of fun biking along the London streets. Velib in Paris is 5 euro, and likewise great.
Most places in the US, it’s strangely expensive – the day pass for my local bikeshare is 10 dollars, and there aren’t enough bikes or stations to make it attractive.
@lifftchi Bike share in Fort Worth is $8 per day, $15 for 3 days. Especially convenient for travel around downtown area & some nearby neighborhoods.
Not necessarily recommended this time of year.
Vacation? What’s that?
@heartny What he/she asked.
@heartny It’s when you leave the house but yet you don’t go to work…
or so I’ve heard.
@heartny EXACTLY…
@2many2no @heartny But you still have to do laundry, cook, dishes and go to the grocery store. Right? Or do vacations save you from that too?
My last vacation was in 2008 - yellowstone camping with a friend and kids - hers and mine. The kids learned some valuable lessons:
1)You don’t roast marshmallows with plastic forks
2) bears can, in fact, climb trees (people were banging on things to make it leave and it jumped our tent guyline, climbed the tree right next to us as we were in the tent - saw the shadow of it - and then sat there for about 5 min in the tree
3) large animals (what kind we don’t know as we didn’t look), in fact, pee on tents at night
4) Buffalo are huge and when they decide to rub against the side view mirror it can break
5) deer skeleton are serious cool
6) tiny, tiny hot springs (like 3-4" in diameter - found some on a hike) are still hot even if they are tiny
7) The natural world has some really, really cool things in it and old faithful isn’t even the most cool of them.
@2many2no @heartny @Kidsandliz
I count out of town trips to visit friends/relatives as being vacations.
@heartny I believe vacation is the two weeks a year employees are given to clean their homes and do maintenance they can’t do usually because they spend the rest of their lives working.
@OnionSoup And usually it takes a week to prepare for vacation at home and work and then at least a week or two when you get back to work to clean up the mess others left behind trying to cover your work, or not. So basically it’s a wash.
None of the above. We drive our own vehicle.
@jst1ofknd same. we don’t vacation often and when we do we don’t go very far. (the latter by choice.)
@jst1ofknd Same here
@jst1ofknd agreed…don’t know why that wasn’t an option listed
The RV is attached to our truck. When we get there, we unhook and drive the truck where we need to go.
Well… in Vegas, I drove around in my power wheelchair while cross eyed drunk. I woke up with some pretty impressive bruises.
uhhh…Drive my own car? How is that not an option?
@Dweezle this question is probs for people who travel to other countries
@communist @Dweezle
My Dad would still drive his own car because it’s cheaper than airplane tickets.
@communist @Dweezle If the assumption is that people usually take vacation in other countries, then that says a lot about the question writer and how much meh pays its staff.
Vacation, haha good joke
It really depends on where I’m going. I’ve used all of those methods except riding a bike. Screw tha, I’m on vacation. Big cities use mass transit. Countries with shady mass transit, use taxis. Mix the other in depending on the place.
Really depends on where I go. Europe is usually on the metro, Asia is usually a taxi, and US Cities is usually renting a car except in New York City & San Fran where it is Uber.
All of the above, plus personal vehicle, walking and hotel courtesy shuttle.
@moondrake I used to hitch hike in Holland, German, England and Scotland (of course I lived in those countries at the time).
Bird scooters
I walk to other countries.
@meshneiarin I’ve walked to Mexico many times.
Boat and dingy.
@CaptAmehrican Yes. When I lived in the Boston harbor it was faster to take the tender than walk, drive (I finally stashed my car at a marine lab my cousin’s husband directed) or take public transportation (gridlock).
With my imagination
We rarely go anywhere for more than one night and we always take our own automobile.
Why is there a need to use local transit in the US? You just drive there. How is this not an option? Meh is US only and I bet the vast majority do not travel outside the US for vacation. Drive needs to be an option
@unksol not everyone has a car, or can afford to rent one, or is old enough to rent one. in some cities in the US driving is particularly confusing/miserable for non-locals. moreover, the driving might be doable but there won’t be anywhere to park your car when you arrive at your destination and/or it may cost an arm and a leg. so, those are all reasons why people use public transit on vacation.
(i prefer to drive or drive & then take an uber though, but i’ve gotten lazy(er) and cranky(er) in my old age and just hate the additional walking and being crammed near other people that usually comes with public transit.)
My vacations are road trips, so I either drive my own car from home or fly to a start point and rent a car.
Either way I’m driving, because that’s what I do on vacation.
All the above.
Well, done all the above.
Car I guess but I prefer picking a place specifically so I don’t have to go farther than a walk.
Drive my own car.
/giphy self-balancing scooter
take a ride
on the flyin’ spoon
doo, doo-doo
I know someone who travels for business very frequently. Recently, she was in China. The staff of the hotel at which she was staying suggested a taxi in order to get to a meeting. They told her she could use her credit card and were even kind enough to hail one for her; she got in, and went on her way.
Upon arrival at her destination, she handed her credit card to the Taxi driver. He looked at her with a very confused look on his face. Eventually, after a flurry of hand gestures and comments in the driver’s limited English, she figured out that Taxis in Beijing, despite the instructions of the hotel, do not take credit cards! She knew from previous encounters, that most everything in Beijing (and perhaps all of China) is purchased by using an app. Unfortunately that app was NOT Apple Pay!
She was not to be in Beijing for very long. Only one of the meetings took place in a hotel other than hers. It was in an internationally known one in which she most certainly could use a credit card! So, she had not thought it necessary to get any Chinese currency. Of course, sitting in the taxi, she became increasingly anxious. She had run out of options, she stuffed a handful of US currency in the driver’s hand and made a break for it!
She still wonders if she’ll be allowed to return to China; is she on an international Wanted poster for Theft of Services? Or, was the wad of Greenbacks, given the current exchange rate, enough for the taxi driver to retire on?!?
So, to answer the question: when she travels for business, it is always in a taxi. But perhaps it is the next question that is more important. Is “Wad of bills in unknown denominations” an acceptable entry on an expense report?
@jelliott04 Always works in Cambodia (but the dollar is the unofficial currency and EVERYONE takes dollars) and it doesn’t even take a wad. And of course you get your change in Cambodian money, that’s where the math gets tricky.
@jelliott04 The hotel that we stayed at in Shanghai gave us a card with the hotel information in English on one side and in Chinese on the other. They told us that if we were to get lost to just hail any taxi and give them the card and they would bring us back. They said that even if we were to run out of money, we could still take the taxi back and the hotel would cover it. They said the taxis are government operated and it was important to the government for the tourists to be properly taken care of so we shouldn’t worry about being able to get back to the hotel.
/giphy “the agony of de feet”
@f00l
/giphy “the agony of defeat”
@f00l The Cleveland Browns just called that cat looking for a tryout for this season.
@rockblossom
We wanna see you in a ball gown and glass slippers.
@rockblossom this must be before midnight.
@f00l Nope. Jeans and sneakers, all of the way. This is a vacation I am on, I can afford my own carriage, and all of the good Princes are taken already.
@Kidsandliz Yes. I don’t like to stay up late, and riding in a pumpkin is just so déclassé.
@f00l @rockblossom You mean your glass New Balance 901s
I get around just fine, thanks for asking.
@cinoclav
Where’s the “All of the above” option?
Hubby will only go to Martha’s Vineyard. One day we were driving back to where we were staying when we saw Morgan Freeman walking down the path near the Jaws beach. Hubby said, that was Morgan Freeman. I didn’t see him, so we turned around to pass him again. He saw us and pointed our car out to the person he was walking with. Caught. Damn. Now we couldn’t pass him again, so we had to go back the other way. An extra 5 miles on a 4 mile ride!
It varies… usually a car (mine, my girlfriend’s or a rental) and public transportation and feet.
Most vacations over past 15+ years have been in upstate NY State and I’ve driven my own car.
In Toronto, we used about half public transportation and half rental car (hotel was in Mississauga and we did a day trip to Niagara Falls).
Daughters and I drove to DC, parked car at hotel in Dupont Circle and used the Metro and our feet to get around.
Chicago was a rental car, though I was mostly there for training, with weekends and an extra week or two of vacation tacked on.
Although I usually use the local transit, bikeshare in some cities is absolutely wonderful. Santander Cycles in London is 2 pounds for 24 hours of all the rides you can stand, and it’s a lot of fun biking along the London streets. Velib in Paris is 5 euro, and likewise great.
Most places in the US, it’s strangely expensive – the day pass for my local bikeshare is 10 dollars, and there aren’t enough bikes or stations to make it attractive.
@lifftchi Bike share in Fort Worth is $8 per day, $15 for 3 days. Especially convenient for travel around downtown area & some nearby neighborhoods.
Not necessarily recommended this time of year.