Senior Holidays All Over the World

When you are retired, the children have flown the coop, you no longer have to work at a daily job, there is plenty of time to spare for doing whatever you want. Now it’s time to think about what you want to do. No doubt, there is some thought given to what type of senior holidays you wish to take with the free time. Where in the world do you want to go? What have you not done yet that you’ve always wanted to do? Now is the time now to think about your “bucket list.” Here at SeniorHolidayTravel.com, we’ve tried to write about our travels and offer up our travel experiences of many types of senior holiday ideas. Some you may like and be interested in and others, you might just pass up on and say, this is not for me.

My wife and I have done a lot of traveling since we retired from our jobs. We’ve planned our senior holidays around our various tastes, sometimes different and sometimes merging on our shared interests. We’ve combined family holidays with our kids and their kids, be it camping or a renting a cottage for the summer. We used to drive in a car to the cottage in Boothbay Harbor in Maine, load up the car, kids, food, clothes, toys and drive the miles together. When we went back last summer to get the family altogether at one time, some drove and some took airplane to get there. Nevertheless, however we got there, by whatever route, be it train, plane or automobile, our entire family met up at the cottage, kids and kids and all, and spent some quality time together.

At other times, my wife and I have spent a long stay senior holidays in North Myrtle beach, renting a suite at a hotel for three months in the winter-spring. Each of our kids and their children have come down to stay with us at different times. Each family member came down for a week or so, so we were rarely alone. The times we did spend alone, I went golfing in Myrtle Beach and my wife, not a fan of golf, pursued her favorite hobby of shopping as there’s plenty of outlet malls in Myrtle Beach to satisfy her shopping hobby.

When we have longed for the exotic in some mighty far flung place across the globe, be it Hawaii, Cuba, Australia, Turkey, Europe or that time we flew to Africa and went on a safari, we went. We have booked our senior holidays either online or through our trusted travel agent friend. We have future plans for even more far off places such as Dubai and also other destinations in Central America. We’ve already traveled to Costa Rica and Panama and plan on visiting Nicaragua in the upcoming year. You must be getting tired just reading this, but we truly believe you should retire from your job, but never retire from life. There’s so much of the world out there and we are determined to see it. Both my wife and I are both game for this type of travel.

Between planning our trips, organizing our vacation photos and then running our blog and sharing our experiences with our readers, it’s a full schedule for us. We would love to hear more from our readers on their senior travel experiences. I’ve thought that eventually we’ll have a forum on our site for our readers. We think this could be of benefit to seniors who travel alone. There’s the single supplement to worry for solo travelers, although many travel and cruise companies have worked around this by offering to find someone to share a room with. Nice thought on their part because many of us want to travel but don’t want to have to pay the single supplement. I thought if there was a forum here for people looking for a travel partner for their senior holidays, it would help. If you meet someone on the forum who shares your tastes and interests, perhaps they would like to travel with you. Even if you don’t have a travel partner, you could possibly meet someone while traveling alone on your travels. Perhaps you will be able to travel with this new friend on future holidays.

If you’ve only recently started using the computer, you probably feel wary of booking your vacation online. The computer might just be a source of travel information before you head to your trusted travel agent for booking. I had previously worked in the computer field so I had a little background experience with using a computer. My wife was a teacher so she learned how to use a computer much later than I did. However, she’s good at it now! We decided in 2009 to start our Senior Holiday Travel blog in 2009 and even I had a lot to learn. From buying a domain to learning to set up a blog – it was all a learning curve.

Our next trip begins on Sunday with our eagerly awaited long stay holiday in a villa in Spain. If you’ve missed reading our earlier articles on our senior holiday to Spain and how we found the villa to rent, then click here to read more about our travel planning. We’re traveling to Spain with a group of friends and renting a villa in Spain. Traveling with a group of friends is enjoyable and saves money – it’s much cheaper than each of us paying for hotel rooms.

Hope we’ve helped with our travel advice, travel insurance advice and senior holiday ideas for our readers. We’ll be blogging from Spain for the next six weeks.

Til next time, Frank and Marie of Senior Holiday Travel.