What is Your Favorite Holiday Destination?

[linnrd]

There's a really nice spot about 12' away from a couple of speakers that, when nicely furnished with a beverage and good company, can transport me to places where pretty much nothing else can.

[phobic]

Maldives hands down, best diving I've seen, wipes the floor with Mauritius! If you're a diver then I'd rather go to the Red Sea than Mauritius.

[stunta]

Great Barrier Reef off of Cairns. Stayed on a catamaran for 3 days. There is a whole different world down there and the beauty is impossible to put into words.

[grimreaper46]

Wythenshawe Park. No money left after Linn has taken it all.

But we are going to Egypt in May, Sheila's most want see.

Can I get Postcards to send back to the Linn...it will get lonely without me to push it's buttons.

[Warren]

Phobic, Red Sea > Maldives?

I've dived the GBR off both Cairns and Airlie Beach. Perhaps I'm not a connoisseur but for me the Reef is the Reef.

[phobic]

(2012-02-24 10:53)Warren Wrote:  Phobic, Red Sea > Maldives?

I've dived the GBR off both Cairns and Airlie Beach. Perhaps I'm not a connoisseur but for me the Reef is the Reef.

I learnt in the red sea and haven't been back yet but I found the Maldives better.

The red sea is better for wrecks without a doubt but the Maldives has much better dive boats and staff, just as much if not more wild life on the reef, loads of sharks and a massive amount of rays - I saw 5 juvenile Mantas cyclone feeding along with 3 massive adults when we dived a cleaning station - they were so close you could reach out and touch them as they glided past, it's a pretty common site as well. But if you hit the west side during the Manta migration months you can dive with hundreds at a time.

I would regularly snorkeled with reef sharks and turtles while listening to the dolphins swimming past. And because of the atoll formation you almost always get a different dive site due to currents - Vis is amazing too so a drift dive there is something special.

add to all that some fantastic hotels, peace, isolation and great food and I find it hard to beat.

one of the few holiday locations I'd go back to, I'd even stay at the same hotel again - Bandos Island, look it up it's just perfect.

If I were going back to Egypt I think I'd only do it on a liveaboard - you don't need to do that in the Maldives....

[salamonscream]

Every body is different, but here go's

Skiing Tignes links into Vald'isere but no hooray Henrys!!

Sun Sri Lanka for total wind down on beautiful island with really friendly locals!!

Unfortuneatly my holiday destination at the moment is home as I am skint!!!!

Have fun