I subscribe to this philosophy. Can't wait till I am retired. Not sure how my health would be like. But I have to assess my available resources. This is where timeshares comes in for accommodations. Just started last year but so far have accumulated some incredible cost savings. How else can I score a stay in a 1 bedroom 2 bath grand luxxe (RV) for $500 a week? Or a 4 bed 4 bath Massanuten week stay for $550?
In Los Angeles it is sometimes cheaper to take a rideshare and skip paying for parking, especially theme park parking for $35. The Sheraton Universal is extremely close to the theme park, so the math might have worked. Even if it doesn't work, it would be a lot easier to take a rideshare to the park.
But there is this little issue of limited vacation time while working. I would love to travel more right now, but I don't have endless vacation time from work.
I just actually question why they bothered renting a car for a 1 day trip to a theme park and back to the airport TBH. In cities I either have driven to the city and have my own car, or else I really usually prefer to rideshare / taxi / subway etc (except Las Vegas, that setup was the worst of all possible worlds IMO).
I'd guess this was more towards people who just say across the board "I'm going to travel once I retire", not people taking some trips while they're younger. This ties into a lot of my calculations around saving / spending / debt etc - some common wisdom IMHO assumes you'll live a long, healthy, active retirement. This is more common now than 50 or 100 years ago, but it's far from certain. This may be the one area where I do fit more Millennial than others in that I'm kind of over stuff and more interested in experiences. As I get older, there's less and less stuff I could comfortably do, so a lot of it is do it while I *can*. In some ways I wish I'd started 15 years ago.
Yes. it isn't easy to fit in for regular working folks, but there are long weekends and sometimes one can use flex-time or comp time to build in an extra day here and there. In our working years, I worked into high seniority with my employers, so I could stretch out what vacation I was given, and my wife had her own law firm and was able to block out time for herself. Our grown kids are able to do some remote 'working' and use comp time to stretch weekends. Not every trip has to be a full week. Planes fly every hour.
This doesn't exist where I work. Years ago a different employer allowed employees to "buy" time off up to two weeks a year. I wish I had that option now.
This is why I'm so +1000 for remote work TBH. I can save vacation time if a day is rainy, or if my travel companions don't get going till noon I can work a half day.
So sorry for your situation. Whenever someone tries to convince me that they, or I, am 'indispensable', I use the analogy of sticking your hand into a bucket of water. Then pull your hand out and see how long it takes for the water to fill the space your hand was.
Don't be. The end of my working career is within a reasonable distance.
A lot of remote jobs require that the employee be online during business hours. I work from home most of the time, but flying to a vacation and sitting in a timeshare kitchen with a laptop all day isn't appealing. If your employer allows you to work early or late in the day, you're lucky.
We stayed at the same Sheridan this year 3 nights after a trip to Disneyland via DVC Our bill looked significantly different…but I researched like crazy before we went…
Family of 3 spent $2,855 for day at Universal Studios — cost breakdown — Business Insider
We flew to California to visit Universal Hollywood despite living near the company's Florida parks. Tickets, flights, hotels, food, and other expenses totaled $2,855.22 for just one day at the park. Although this was a pricey experience, there's very little I would do differently next time.apple.news
