If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?
If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?
If money was no object, where would you be booking your next holiday?
Earth.
Like, the whole fucking thing more or less.
Might take me the rest of my life and I still won't see it all, but if money is no object...
Amtrak does the train equivalent of a cruise liner, where you spend about half a month on a sleeper car travelling all over America. It's cheaper than an actual cruise line, and more importantly I think trains are cool.
Edit: forgot about the unlimited money. I guess I would pay to replace all the rails in north america first so I have a smooth ride the whole time.
If money is no object you can buy your own custom-built private car and pay Amtrak to pull it on their lines.
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I'm assuming you're talking about the All American, as that's the main one I could find. About fifteen days, and $2400. Which is about as much as a three to five day cruise, depending on cruiseline.
That sounds awesome, and isn't that terribly expensive, honestly. My wife and I went on a similar route road trip for our honeymoon a few years ago and it was in that same ballpark of cost, between car rental, hotels, and other expenses.
Yep. That one.
Looks like you're staying at pretty nice hotels in places like SF, NYC and LA. It looks like it's all included, which isn't bad at all.
Switzerland. Having grown up in the coastal plains, I just have this fascination with mountains. I don't t have the physical condition to climb one, but just seeing them up close already makes me feel things. Being on top of one, even more so.
Maybe I can do even better and do a train journey from France, and then Switzerland, then across Austria, all the way to Hungary and Romania, making sure that I cross as many mountains as I possibly can.
I saw the Alps from Germany. That would be such a fun trip!
I bet the views of the Alps are majestic from there!
And yeah! I imagine the trip would be so much fun (though a bit exhausting). It'd be combining two of the things that fascinate me: mountains and trains.
I sometimes fantasize going from the northern tip of Scotland all the way to Singapore on a train. Not non-stop, of course, but maybe going from one city to another, spending some time on a city until I get my fill, and then hop on the train to the next one. All the way until I run out of land. Maybe from there (Singapore), I can do island-hopping across Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Then road trip in Australia. But that's really stretching it, not just in terms of logistics and planning. At the pace I do things, do I really want to spend like five years crawling through Europe, Asia, and Australia? Even if money's no object, I don't think I can do that.
Sorry for the ramble. Given the scope of the question, yeah, a cross-Europe mountain train trip is perhaps my limit (that'd be like, two weeks? maybe a month if I take my time to really enjoy each place I visit?)
I would love to visit New Zealand. I'm a canuk and I hear they are like a better weather version of my country...I've also never met a kiwi that wasn't a stand up person.
If money were no object, I'd book a permanent vacation to New Zealand. But a vacation into the Sun has a certain appeal too.
e: love your username btw
Money is no object?
Alpha Centauri. Build a spacious and comfortable Orion Drive ship for me and a few thousand of my best friends to go on a nice long trip.
I was going to say Mars, just to get there before fElon, but Alpha Centauri sounds nice!
Antarctica. It's possible, there are regular tours to the South Pole. In reality I can't afford €60k+ for such a tour, but if money is no object I'd go
I did a tour to Antarctica. Overrated in my opinion. But if you really want to go for yourself, the cheapest way is to head down to Ushuaia and sign up for a standby cruise. It's easily €5k or less.
Fiji seems pretty cool
It's not where, if money was no object, I would be on holiday semi-permanent.
If pollution were not an issue, I would visit my sister in New Zealand. I live in the Netherlands.
Since money wouldn't be an issue, I guess you could charter a sailboat round-trip. Hope you don't get seasick.
I like that thought.
Vienna. The opera season this year couldn't be better, I'd stay the year and go every night.
Fly to Frankfurt for fairly cheap. Take the train to Munich and the train to Vienna from there and attend at least a few. Get a cheaper “stay” in the outer districts that are still connected via train. Check if there is offers on “Groupon” for it potentially. Could probably make it with 2k/2.5k
My gaming PC, my backlog is epic
Tokyo. Splurge in Akihabara and eat some authentic ramen.
Probably Amsterdam or Copenhagen for a few weeks,
properly experience a walkable city with good transit and cycling infrastructure
Having visited both and now living in Copenhagen, it could change your life to visit! Great places to be a tourist
It's amazing. I recommend sitting outside the central train station in Amsterdam and people watching, as thousands of tourists attempt to bicycle or walk somewhere, and they're just in everybody's way. It's hilarious. If you're going to cycle (which, yes, you should) stay to the right and signal where you want to go. There are bike lanes there for you to take, don't just be off in the middle of the street. Also, they want you to pay for an extra ticket to bring your bike on the train with you, I found that this can be ignored if you're not a jerk about it.
lol… it’s what you say but as tourist you not wanna cycle there. You’ll be happy on weekends yo barely have the space to walk. It’s a beautiful city though. Visited it like 3-4 times
Monte Carlo, during the F1 championchip race, at that one Hotel there with the best view.
Been to a couple gran prix, it is not as fun as it seems attending in person. You can only see a small part of the track, so TV coverage is waaaay better to watch. Also noisy (though not as much as it used to be before they introduced noise limits, no earplugs were helpful). For that MC hotel, only the vanity factor is strong, but given that you already have unlimited money by design of the question - there may be better ways to show off.
I mean, if money's no object I'm sure some travel agent could put together a package deal to go to every race. That way you could experience the glitz of Monaco but also get to see some decent races.
A tour through the Nordic countries.
I've only ever seen Sweden from the highway from Malmö to Stockholm to get to a boat to Estonia in time, and only saw bits of the harbor in Helsinki during that trip. I'd love to take more time to explore Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Yup, if the Arctic is fully booked, why not to go to Norway 😁
If money really was no object, I’d build the first lunar inn and live there permanently.
“Oooh TeamAssimilation, that’s the Apollo Lander, it’s a valuable relic, please stop licking it!”
Maybe build a submarine and visit the Titanic ;)
Finding the time is more of an obstacle, but definitely New Zealand or Australia! Love flying but just thinking about the flight time is making my butt hurt haha
Can recommend the Air New Zealand sky couch - you book a slightly more expensive economy seat and get a whole row with a special footrest that folds all the way up flat turning it into a bed 👌
Aw heck yeah! Thanks for telling me this, I'll definitely be booking it when I go there! 😃
There's a place out in Washington State called Dirtfish. They call it a "rally school". For a bunch of money they'll give you a kickass Subaru and let you tear around a dirt track for a few days. Looks awesome.
I'd buy a small private ship and sail around the globe. I'd occasionally port to pickup a friend or family member or drop someone off.
My friend’s uncle lived this life but swap globe to “Lake Travis in Austin, TX” and swap friend or family member to “random babe”
One time, she (my friend), invited us out for a full day on her uncle’s boat and whenever we stopped to gas up, one babe would depart and another would hop on. He also had some kinda magical ice chest that never ran out of beer. Good times.
The moon, or just into space where I can float around and see Earth from a good distance.
Do you remember being a very young kid, of maybe 4 or 5-years-old, and riding your bike without stabilisers for the first time? Riding around your neighbourhood with that feeling of limitless time and seemingly bottomless reservoirs of pure joy? Or the first time you played a video game? Or the first time you went to the cinema? Basically any fun and novel experience. You could almost physically feel the birthing neurons branching through your brain in real-time like orgasmic, electrified roots. The joy of simply having your consciousness come 'online' more and more.
Well, I'm in my early 40s now, and I haven't felt that way since I was that very young child. But I don't think it's because I'm too jaded to enjoy things anymore, it's that I've experienced almost everything there is to experience in a normal everyday life, and there's not much left that is so new and shocking to my consciousness that it will trigger that magical experience again. And so there is no further branching of neurons and no further giddy joy at simply doing something hitherto completely foreign to my brain.
I think visiting space, and especially landing on the moon, would give me that feeling again. It would be the last truly novel experience I definitely have not felt before, and it's not one that I can sorta kinda experience vicariously. I mean, I've never killed anyone, but I know what an abyss of unquenchable guilt feels like, I know what the terror of being caught after doing something bad feels like, I know what it feels like to be so haunted by trauma that I have nightmares about it for years after. So I can just extrapolate from that and get a general idea of what it must be like to have done something that awful. My imagination can conjure up those sorts of ideas if I want it to, and while I won't get 100% of the way there, I can create a ballpark estimation of it. But going into space - leaving everything and everyone who has ever existed behind - and being somewhere so literally alien to my evolved senses, that's not something I can get a handle on just using my imagination.
I could be wrong of course, and going into space might simply be like visiting another country in the shittiest, most cramped Ryanair flight imaginable, but it's the only thing I think has the most chance of giving me one last brain-bukkake before I clock out.
Shame it'll never happen 🤷 Maybe I'll start a twitter account sucking Elon's fetid little dick and he'll invite me to use one of his rockets one day. Then while I'm in space, I'll take out a trans flag and play a shitty cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off à la Chris Hadfield 🫡
Never really thought about it. Have always wanted to visit either the French countryside or some picturesque forest in Europe. But someone mentioned trains and unlimited money.
A nice indulgence then would be a luxury train line that navigates throughout most regions of the planet. Probably the most expensive ever done but should be possible. Could probably take years to travel the whole planet in maximum comfort. Wonderful.
Advantages of a vacation train would also be having other people around. One cart per person/family. Not everyone would be in it for the whole ride, so probably lots of passengers changing too. Could have wonderful parties or just group entertainment like movie nights.
Europa, Jupiter's moon.
Not Titan? I think the rings would be worth seeing.
Titan is a terrible place to view Saturn's rings from; first of all the moon's orbit is pretty much coplanar with the ring disc so you're looking at something hilariously thin end-on. Second, thick opaque clouds. On the upside, Titan's gravity is so low and the air is so thick given an Icarus suit you could fly like a bird. Or pedal power a Cessna Skyhawk.
You'd probably get a good look at the rings on your way in though.
My son asked me this yesterday. Japan.
To the moon! If money's no object NASAs budget just went up 100 fold.
I was thinking way too small with my answer. I didn't even consider the idea of telling NASA that I could fund any and every project they want done, if they just send me to the Moon
Italian wine tour for a couple of months
Lancaster Pennsylvania, lots of folk punk stuff going on over there and LNL is throwing another folk punk flea market in late June.
Lancaster surprised the hell out of me. I went there for work expecting another Podunk pa town and was pleasantly surprised.
New Zealand
Space
If money doesnt matter, why not go for the most expensive?
I would go visit every single temple and tea house in Japan. As well as try every single unique flavor of KitKat in the country.
Somewhere tropical, that won't mind if we smoke some weed on the beach. Jamaica comes to mind, but I'd research options because I'd like to see the other side of the Atlantic.
Japan. Several European countries.
Dont go to Berlin. Trust me.
There was a knitting cruise I looked at before. Took you around Europe and had events to spin your own yarn and there would be workshops with masters. I think I would do that.
This sounds amazing!
Probably Polynesia.
There are places where you can go and slum it and still have a great time, just visiting free attractions and going everywhere on foot and by pubic transit.
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But then there are places where the luxury itself is the attraction, so cheaping out doesn't really make sense.
I can afford to get to Japan and then just stay in cheap hotels and explore local attractions in Kyoto and Tokyo.
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I can afford to get to Bora Bora or Tahiti, but I can't afford the luxury stay, which would be the point of the trip.
Under Vladimir's bed
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Lake Meade, Pennsylvania
it's already booked, though, family reunion.
I'd book a trip on a tall ship. I found one a while back called the Bark Europa. It's one of the few ships that goes to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote civilization in the world.
Its already expensive ($10,000+) and even more expensive if you want to go to the arctic. Unfortunately, I have celiacs, so the only way I'd be able to do it, is if I paid a stupid amount of money.
Somewhere remote that already has a well-established bartering system. Most of the usual tourist places would be a disaster if there was no such thing as money.
The Moon.
Failing that, Low Earth Orbit.
Iceland
An all-inclusive resort, located somewhere warm with a beach.
Paradise 🙂 That's what I love.
Looking at the Bahamas sometime this year, but my wife needs to secure the time off first. :(
Sailboat, Caribbean, and all the food and sunsets in between as long as I can make it last. Maybe I'll end it by heading straight at a hurricane, or maybe I'll just try my luck at getting to Europe. It would be amazing to get to Gibraltar under sail from the Caribbean.
I'd like to go back to Fuzhou, but geopolitical tensions are making international travel less viable by the day.
If money is NO object then I’d buy the US government and make the US visitor friendly. I mean I’d really like to see the pained desert, New Orleans, New York, New England in the fall, hell there’s heaps of the US I’d like to visit and it seams to me that you can buy the US government for a couple of hundred billions.
Your moms house
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Vietnam looks nice.
Iceland. My kid took a geology class and was excited about Iceland. This is actually college: he never got his passport so I said, “sure I’ll take you if you apply for your passport”
Money and time no object? I would do a tour of the Pacific islands on a 110 Wally sailboat complete with crew so I get to do the fun stuff like helming and none of the boring stuff I don't feel like doing that day. Would hit at a minimum Galapagos, Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia and on down to the Sundays in Australia. Would take about 6 months although I could spend a lifetime there.
If I was time limited to two weeks? Sailing in the Bahamas in a Outreamer cat, these are as large as I can safely handle with my partner and its a lot lot shallower than the Wally so I get to explore far more of the Bahamas. Shorter holidays I want less flight time, so direct like this is perfect.
The fuckin moon, and it's not even close. Get me off this rock
Definitely take a boat ride to visit Taiwan at least once before any shit potentially goes down in Asia and war breaks out.
Hell, if it broke out while I was over there, it'd make things easier for me in a way, since I'd be more than willing to help Taiwan in the event of a war by doing whatever the hell they need me to as a civilian who couldn't join the army due to my health. Wouldn't have to be working on helping them from far away, but rather on ground.
Royal Caribbean cruise on an Icon, Quantum, or Oasis class ship (to the Caribbean, of course).
I don't care how much Lemmy hates cruise ships, nothing beats waking up to a different view out of your balcony every morning. Not to mention the unlimited gourmet food. You could eat a dozen lobster tails in a single sitting if you wanted to.
Italy, Japan, or some place with beautiful mountains.
But money is a thing, so i'm not going anywhere.
No where lol. I like my home area.
Canada. Somewhere.