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Who is taking a Summer Vacation this year?

Icc5

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Harder to plan trips until my wife decides to retire but I did talk her into at least take 6 weeks vacation this year so it started 3 weeks ago. We took our granddaughter and did a week at Bass Lake/Yosimite.
Yesterday we came back from Lawrence Welk/Escondido which we invited our best friends and spent the week exploring in and around San Diego. Those were our drive to vacations.
We will be flying out to Minnisota and Wisconsion for a week to try to connect with relatives that my wife last saw about 45 years ago.
At the end of summer we are flying to Idaho and Glacier for another two weeks.
Bart
 

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We have a June week in NH (Suites at Attitash) with 4 other families. Great vacation as the kids all play together and the adults actually have a bit of adult time. Then back to NH in August at Pollard Brook.

Want to do few nights at Old Orchid Beach in Maine, but that will be OOP if we can find something on the beach and reasonable cost. That is the problem with TS....I always to cheap to pay OOP for things now!

This morning just scored the week between Christmas and New Years at Pollard Brook also!
 

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Off to Maine (Acadia Village) in June and September. Nothing else scheduled, but if something comes up we might go in the real summer. Usually we try to go in shoulder season when it's less crowded and kids are in school, with the exception of the White Mountains.
 

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3 weeks in hawaii (1 week each at big island, Oahu and Maui) in June, Atlantis in July and 1 week at Orlando follow by another week in Hilton head in august. If not for timeshares, we would never be able to afford to get away so much.
 

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Off to Maui next week with the wife. Hoping to check out the site for the new HGVC property while I'm there. Then we are taking the kids to check out the Marriott property on St Thomas in the fall.


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Imagine: All the People wearing their TUG Shirts or having a Tug Banner photo at all these wonderful timeshares? Will be taking both with me on my summer vacations!
Everyone, have a great time, share photos and reviews with us. Virtual Timesharing is fun too!
Silentg
 

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Leaving mid week

We're checking into Brewster Green on Cape Cod late next week staying a week then into Smuggler's Notch for a week...that is IF my 93 year old mother, who fell and had surgery on her elbow and just got out of rehab, does well on the trip and we don't turn around and go back home.
 

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Bolton Valley next Friday. Our daughter lives there, and she's in labor today!!-with their third child. So, we're going to stay there so we can walk over to their condo and spend time with the older 2 kids, and get in some bonding with the new grandchild.
 

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Bolton Valley next Friday. Our daughter lives there, and she's in labor today!!-with their third child. So, we're going to stay there so we can walk over to their condo and spend time with the older 2 kids, and get in some bonding with the new grandchild.
Congratulations!:banana:
 

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Hilton Grand Vacation Club in Honolulu for 2 weeks, then Marriott's Maui Ocean Club for 4 weeks.
 

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We spent Memorial Day Weekend at Bentley Brook in MA and plan to go back to nashville to celebrate y moms 80th birthday this summer. We love our Wyndham Resorts.
 

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Curacao, New Orleans, Angel Fire

We just returned from a week in Curacao (owners at Royal Sea Aquarium) where we took our grown son and his wife. I love the tranquility of Curacao as well as snorkeling (previously were divers).

Next week, we are going to New Orleans (owners at The Quarter House). There will be just the two of us in a large penthouse. It will be nice having the whole thing to ourselves.

Late summer we will go to a condo we own in Angel Fire, New Mexico. It will be nice to get away from the Texas summer heat.
 

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I'm taking a summer vacation! My wife and daughter are going to Europe, and I am vacationing in my house after work each day for 5 weeks! :banana:
 

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I'm taking a summer vacation! My wife and daughter are going to Europe, and I am vacationing in my house after work each day for 5 weeks! :banana:
That's sound like an awesome vacation! When these squatters I birthed move out, everyday will be like a vacation... until I start missing them.
 

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We went to Branson Memorial Day week and are going to Little Sweden resort in Fish Creek, Wisconsin over 4th of July for a week. Normally we do most of our timeshare travels in the off season but when I saw a Door County week available in II for 4th of July, I couldn't pass it up.
Bernie
 

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Have an extended family trip planned for mid/late August. 3 generations with 12 people going to Tennessee. Stopping in Cleveland to see the Rock in Roll HoF (1 night). 3 nights at Wyndham Great Smokies Lodge and 4 nights in Nashville.

Looking forward to it....could use a vacay right now!

Have Labour day weekend at Smuggs in Vermont as well.
 

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Heading up to Traverse City for the Cherry Festival and I'm so excited?.
 

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Two weeks from today we fly to NYC for two days before boarding a cruise ship to Bermuda. In August we'll visit our timeshare in Cabo and family in Texas.
 

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I already spent two weeks at the beach in California. Got two more weeks coming this Summer too.
 

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We had a very nice time at the Cape staying at Brewster Green though it was still a bit cold and rainy though we went two weeks later than last year.

Don't jump on me, but I have to say that for three seniors we just didn't get Smuggler's Notch in early June. Lovely driving through the Notch. But Smuggs is so dated and what's with the dirt roads? They made for a very muddy car in the rain. There wasn't much to Stowe. We LOVED Burlington, VT. As well as the museum at Shelburne! But we won't be going back. Once is more than enough. We actually left a day early.
 

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Memorial Week- Marriott Ocean Pointe, Palm Beach, FL

July 4th Week- Marriott Grande Vista, Orlando, FL

Week before Labor Day- Marriott Aruba Ocean Club

:banana:
 

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I think I'll spend the summer in/near Las Vegas :whoopie::whoopie::whoopie:
 

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We had a very nice time at the Cape staying at Brewster Green though it was still a bit cold and rainy though we went two weeks later than last year.

Don't jump on me, but I have to say that for three seniors we just didn't get Smuggler's Notch in early June. Lovely driving through the Notch. But Smuggs is so dated and what's with the dirt roads? They made for a very muddy car in the rain. There wasn't much to Stowe. We LOVED Burlington, VT. As well as the museum at Shelburne! But we won't be going back. Once is more than enough. We actually left a day early.

I actually slightly preferred NH to VT for my Northern US vacation. My now 11 year old son, now 14 can't wait until our 1 in 4 is up and can go to Smuggs next year again. The Hill communities are much nicer and newer than the Village communities. We enjoyed the ferry over Lake Champlain to get to Smuggs and Burlington as well. We also did Ben and Jerry's, Cobot cheese, apple orchard, and a Maple syrup educational stop (not active in the summer but they showed how the equipment and process worked. I wish it was 6 hrs instead of 11 hours away.

So this summer we spent opening weekend in Ocean City, MD. We have a week in Kill Devil Hills- OBX, NC in July. A week at Massanutten at the end of July and a week in Deep Creek Lake, MD in August. We also have to fit in trips to visit 2 sets of grandparents in NY and WV. At least everything this summer is within a 3-6 hour driving range from our home in almost all directions.
 

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I actually slightly preferred NH to VT for my Northern US vacation. My now 11 year old son, now 14 can't wait until our 1 in 4 is up and can go to Smuggs next year again. The Hill communities are much nicer and newer than the Village communities. We enjoyed the ferry over Lake Champlain to get to Smuggs and Burlington as well. We also did Ben and Jerry's, Cobot cheese, apple orchard, and a Maple syrup educational stop (not active in the summer but they showed how the equipment and process worked. I wish it was 6 hrs instead of 11 hours away.

So this summer we spent opening weekend in Ocean City, MD. We have a week in Kill Devil Hills- OBX, NC in July. A week at Massanutten at the end of July and a week in Deep Creek Lake, MD in August. We also have to fit in trips to visit 2 sets of grandparents in NY and WV. At least everything this summer is within a 3-6 hour driving range from our home in almost all directions.

We were in Aspen at the top of the hill. We rode the ferry across Lake Champlain into NY when we were leaving on our way down to PA. That was very nice. We toured Ben and Jerry's, visited the Cabot Cheese store and bought Maple Syrup. Lake Champlain Chocolate is wonderful!!! Visited two wineries.

I get why people with kids would like Smuggs in the summer for their programs. But it wasn't for us. Brewster Green is dated too but the Cape is more to our liking. Our unit at Aspens wasn't bad except for broken down old upholstered chairs, squeaking floors and ants. But the hallway and elevator floors (carpet) were in terrible condition and the wallpaper must be from the eighties.
 
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