What is your #1 place in the world to vacation?

[TommyBoy]

Okinawa

[soreloser]

ARUBA is my wife and I's favorite place in the world. We have been there 4 times. Everyone speaks English, no time change, no money exchange, perfect weather year round with a easy breeze all day long. Crystal clear blue water and not overpriced like a St. Martin or Virgin Islands.
There philosophy is ONE HAPPY ISLAND and it is!
I have done France, England, all over Mexico, Canada & Bahamas.
Price wise it is the same as any Mexico resort vacation.
I own tanning salons and a personal training business, so I see where everyone travels. NEVER A COMPLAINT FROM THOSE COMING BACK FROM ARUBA.

[Sam]

Just out of interest: how many Americans on here own passports?

[SuperTed]

I went to Dubai last year which was pretty awesome. Very hot though.
I'd like to go to Vegas and Tokyo soon.
Love busy cities with lots of lights and colour.

[hrspwr1]

It does not matter to me so much the location, I really enjoy a nice high class resort with great on-site amenities.

 A good gym, good food, nice pool and sauna, comfortable clean room, good coffee and breakfast etc..

 If the resort is nice I don`t find the need to go out and deal with the proletariat.

[Tapeworm]

I went to Dubai last year which was pretty awesome. Very hot though.
I'd like to go to Vegas and Tokyo soon.
Love busy cities with lots of lights and colour.

Don't expect English outside Roppongi.  Study hard or you will not communicate.  

A physique that will get you laughed off Getbig makes you a giant in Japan.  You'll want to be able to communicate.

[Voice of Doom]

depends on the type of vacation.  Is it a  travel and see shit vacation or a lay back and decompress vacation?  If it's travel, I go see archeological sites around the world...if its booze, food, massage and sleep Cabo is pretty nice.  But just stay at the hotel and be pampered, the surrounding culture sucks.

[DroppingPlates]

I hope to visit Coach Huang some day for a good workout, to eat his homemade noodles, perform some funky karaoke stuff as a duo (no homo) and to share some Getbig jokes with the public.

[michael arvilla]

Tortola

Went there a long time ago........went with my girlfriend (her parents had a boat there) stayed at a place right on the beach (rented a jeep to go to town and a top of the mountain restaurant) was an amazing place....paradise

[Mr Nobody]

Went there a long time ago........went with my girlfriend (her parents had a boat there) stayed at a place right on the beach (rented a jeep to go to town and a top of the mountain restaurant) was an amazing place....paradise

Tell us more big Mike.

[_aj_]

Alaska.

With my dogs. Family optional.

Would actually love to live there.

[Rami]

[LurkerNoMore]

I am lucky enough to be in a position where I get paid to go on what most people consider "dream vacations".  I have been all over the world and it is hard to narrow it down to one specific spot.  Would mostly depend on the time of the year for me to make a decision.

I was just in the Galapagos last November for my 30th birthday.  I leave on the 15th for a week of a Yachtsman Caribbean cruise.  If I had to pick one place for a vacation to do over again it would be :

Spring - Paris
Summer - Italian coastline - Amalfi/Capri/etc..
Fall - Viking Wine cruise on either Rhine or Danube
Winter - well I live in Ft Lauderdale so that is a vacation in itself.

There are tons of beautiful places but I have been to so many before that I am in no rush to go back unless I am being paid.  (Even then there are some places that I will not go back to again and pass the assignment up.)  I don't consider Vegas a vacation spot because I go there 2-4 times a year anyway and the novelty has worn off.  I would rather spend 4 days in DC among the monuments and museums than in Vegas at this point.  

Despite all these beautiful places to visit and fall in love with, I really can't see actually living there.  If I were going to move outside the country it would most likely be London.  I have spent entire summers there a few times and love the city.  It is very historical, cultural, and has fantastic food (but only from other cultures because the British can't originate taste or cook for shit.)

[LurkerNoMore]

One thing I have found to be 100% accurate about other countries and cultures :

Heaven and Hell

Heaven Is Where:

The French are the chefs
The Latins are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time

Hell is Where:

The British are the chefs
The Swiss are the lovers
The French are the mechanics
The Italians make everything run on time
And the Germans are the police

[tom joad]

Summer - Italian coastline - Amalfi/Capri/etc..

we spent some days on the Amalfi Coast last summer.  wouldn't return.  thought it was a bit overrated.
preferred hiking the Cinque Terre.

[Roger Bacon]

Hopefully we can bring that kind of cultural enrichment to the United States, vote liberal.

[nzmusclemonster]

Greek Islands

[Teutonic Knight]

Traveled 5 X around this watery planet, always like to re-visit places like:
-Paris (19 July) , military parade & Foreign Legion's march
-London , Millwall vs Chelsea football match
-Pamplona (Spain ), go bulls go
-Pula (Croatia) ancient gladiators arena
-Papeete (Tahiti) , Heiva e Tahiti festival (+ local strongman contest)
-Melbourne , Melbourne Cup, mega pussy event 
-Volgograd (Stalingrad)
-Etc,...........

[SamoanIrishman]

Spain, Tahiti, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil..... may retire in Argentina. Beautiful, good gov't, cheap. If the Gov't was in charge Columbia.

[RJ DRIVER]

Tortola

Ill match your Tortola and raise you Jost Van Dyke.

[Emmortal]

Just out of interest: how many Americans on here own passports?

I've been an avid traveler for a while now, lived in Australia for a year, New Zealand for a year, spent a year in Thailand and visited Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, China, Taiwan, Japan, and spent a few holidays in Fiji, Cook Islands, Tahiti.

I moved around a lot growing up, from the mid-west, south, east coast and now west coast so I think it was just natural for me to want to see other parts of the world.

[The Showstoppa]

Your moms house.

[Emmortal]

Spain, Tahiti, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil..... may retire in Argentina. Beautiful, good gov't, cheap. If the Gov't was in charge Columbia.

Good government in Argentina?  Have you lived there?  Do you enjoy wealth confiscation? Just getting paychecks in US dollars is a hassle when you go deposit them into a bank, the banks want proof of where you received your income.

It's a really beautiful place though, might be good if you can get your money into the country under the radar and live relatively out of the eye of the government.

[The Showstoppa]

Been to 32 countries.

[tom joad]

-Pamplona (Spain ), go bulls go

I was at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona the last Saturday of the festival this past July.  And the bulls won! (as a number of runners were trampled/injured.) Those Friday & Saturday nights in Pamplona were, by far, the biggest street parties i've ever seen. Everybody wearing the same festival attire and mostly everybody hammered.