Vacation locations

[tenni]

When you are planning a vacation what are some of the factors that you use to decide where to go? (cost, warm locations, interesting things to see etc.)

Does your sexuality influence your decision?

[darkeyes]

Paris in September for nice long holiday weekend... main hol this year 2 Languedoc in France prob tho as yet we havent booked. No...neither sex or sexuality influence destination much.. not nowadays... but 1ce. I like France and the French and the French way of life. Warm and dry helps me choose..

[Annika L]

I wish I could say that sexuality has no effect whatsoever on our vacation decisions...but I fear that would be ignoring some important considerations.

We'll not go to Russia (glad I went when I was 17...I'll not go back).
We'll not go to the Middle East.
We'll not go the Caribbean.
We'll not go to Mexico.
We'll not go to Texas.

Those are *some* places we *might like* to go, if it wasn't for the sexuality politics of the area...or politics of the area generally. Then there are other bigoted places that simply hold little appeal to us. Now there are bigoted areas of other regions that we have stayed in (we've stayed together in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and we both have family in some rather bigoted areas of Pennsylvania) that don't particularly stop us...but that we might prefer to avoid as destinations.

To answer the other aspects of the OP, cost is definitely a consideration. We'd love to get out to the West coast and over to Europe much more often than we do...but airfare is so bloody expensive that it really makes it difficult to prioritize (when you combine it with hotel and meal costs) over cheaper options. We actually don't go in much for warmer locations...we tend to prefer further North, if anything. Last summer, we went to Montreal (we enjoy Canada quite a bit). We also prioritize queer-friendly locations (which Montreal also is), since ours isn't all that much. We also enjoy going places where we have friends. And then, of course, there is physical beauty and interesting things to do.

Our favorite place to vacation for the past several years is Provincetown, MA. Beautiful, great shopping, great restaurants, fun to meet people, good bicycling, and you just about can't get more queer-friendly...to me, you can't beat a town where LGBT is the majority!

[pole_smoker]

I wish I could say that sexuality has no effect whatsoever on our vacation decisions...but I fear that would be ignoring some important considerations.

We'll not go to Russia (glad I went when I was 17...I'll not go back).
We'll not go to the Middle East.
We'll not go the Caribbean.
We'll not go to Mexico.
We'll not go to Texas.

Those are *some* places we *might like* to go, if it wasn't for the sexuality politics of the area...or politics of the area generally. Then there are other bigoted places that simply hold little appeal to us. Now there are bigoted areas of other regions that we have stayed in (we've stayed together in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and we both have family in some rather bigoted areas of Pennsylvania) that don't particularly stop us...but that we might prefer to avoid as destinations.

To answer the other aspects of the OP, cost is definitely a consideration. We'd love to get out to the West coast and over to Europe much more often than we do...but airfare is so bloody expensive that it really makes it difficult to prioritize (when you combine it with hotel and meal costs) over cheaper options. We actually don't go in much for warmer locations...we tend to prefer further North, if anything. Last summer, we went to Montreal (we enjoy Canada quite a bit). We also prioritize queer-friendly locations (which Montreal also is), since ours isn't all that much. We also enjoy going places where we have friends. And then, of course, there is physical beauty and interesting things to do.

Our favorite place to vacation for the past several years is Provincetown, MA. Beautiful, great shopping, great restaurants, fun to meet people, good bicycling, and you just about can't get more queer-friendly...to me, you can't beat a town where LGBT is the majority!
:rolleyes: Typical ultra-PC "lesbian" answer LMAO!!!!!!!!

Both myself and my partner travel and go on vacation or holiday to all sort of places and that does not include going to LGBT/gay ghettos like Provincetown, Key West/South beach, Palm Springs, WestHollywood/Silverlake, the Castro in SF, Toronto's Church street, Montreal's gay/LGBT village, etc. We live in NYC and don't even go to the gay/LGBT ghettos here that often at all.

[Annika L]

:rolleyes: Typical ultra-PC "lesbian" answer LMAO!!!!!!!!

Both myself and my partner travel and go on vacation or holiday to all sort of places and that does not include going to LGBT/gay ghettos like Provincetown, Key West/South beach, Palm Springs, WestHollywood/Silverlake, the Castro in SF, Toronto's Church street, Montreal's gay/LGBT village, etc. We live in NYC and don't even go to the gay/LGBT ghettos here that often at all.

I knew I could count on an enlightened ray of sunshine from you.

And Provincetown a ghetto? Ignorant too.

At least I answered genuinely.

[darkeyes]

I knew I could count on an enlightened ray of sunshine from you.

And Provincetown a ghetto? Ignorant too.

At least I answered genuinely.The guy is a bigoted dimwit... iggie him Annika... unfortunately he wont go away, but we can but hope.

I said sex and sexuality don't figure much wen we choose wer to holiday wich is true if we r talking getting laid.. by wichever gender.. depends wot peeps want from ther hols.. but if we r talking life and limb, we wud b insane if we didnt take account of our safety. Summat most peeps do wen looking for a hol, but being lessie, gay, bi or trans r always xtra considerations 2 take account of.. just common sense.. so if peeps wanna go off on hol 2 gay ghettos, villages, resorts or wotever they r... so wot? Dimwit is such a snobby nob at times...:impleased