Holidays....Gransnet is paying

We are currently spending three weeks in California,(with DS1 and family). The flights have been very expensive. May i request reimbursement from GN?

Canada to go on a whale watch.

And I won't worry about the fatness.

I'll take the Rome hotel.

The lovely food WILL make you fat though.

No magic-ing allowed, but you can have any hotel you like ( a suite of rooms?) in any country.Bon voyage!

It's the hotel that makes the holiday for me.

Or three weeks in Rome in September, in the hotel we stayed in for four nights last year. Right opposite the Pantheon.

I think maybe three weeks in The Ritz in London. Or the one in New York if I could be magicked there without having to cross all that very deep water. And if I could be guaranteed that all the lovely food wouldn't make me fat.

Would you like the Queen's own staff with the boat? I have checked and they are available.

A boat trip around Scotland visiting all the islands preferably in the boat the queen hired

Ooh how lovely! That would be the entire route of the Orient Express with all the bells and whistles possible, there and back please!

Didn't want to push my luck .

What about a personal translater cornergran? Someone easy on the eye, with charm
( Mimi Augello from Montalbano?)

Venice via the Orient Express please. Hotel overlooking the Grand Canal, private water taxi transfer and available as needed to go to the islands, champagne waiting in the suite, personal chef and maid (butlers are so over rated ), after 10 days a transfer to Rome, central hotel, personal chef, maid and guide. Business class flight back, please. Oh yes, definitely no rain while we are there. Happy to share the Orient Express with Stansgean. . Not that I've thought about this!

Yes you Jane :-)

I' ll travel to Australia with Pittcity I won't crowd you I will keep my distance and first class of course. Actually anywhere first class is on my bucket list.

It's a funny thing, but when I began to think about this I could only think of people I would like to visit (e.g. my foster son in Taiwan) rather than places I would like to see.

I need to think about this a little more - I'll be back when I've had a ponder.

spoilsport rosesarered, so can't go to Antarctica or the Galapagos. {sad]
Strange how we all choose to go in luxury! No-one has said they wanted to camp in a muddy field in a storm with a little gas stove, shoot their rabbits and knit their muesli. Anyone out there want to do that???

chloe1984 That sounds like a dream holiday! UK coastline is amazing and in September it will be less crowded and the weather, hopefully, will be pleasantly warm, not too hot. Agree about the food deliveries (I find cooking a real chore) but I'm happy to open bottles of wine! A chauffeur would be an added luxury, someone who could cope cheerfully with negotiating narrow winding lanes in the West Country...

Australia and New Zealand to see where DH was born and spent the first few years of his life. First Class all the way.

The Orient Express please.

I meant for my staycation btw. I'm not a train fan!

Ooh now you're talking! Can I have a chef as well as a maid? A chauffeur would be good too. I'd like a jester now I think about it. Could Michael McIntyre and Graham Norton do alternate shifts?

How very kind of you, Gransnet! And seeing as I've nothing to do this evening - no cooking or cleaning for the whole family coming for Father's Day tomorrow or anything like that - I've spent a bit of time looking for my ideal holiday. And I've come up with the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express. Includes all meals, private tour of the Kremlin, private barbecue on the shore of Lake Baikal. 19 days and a mere £21,000 for the two of us. Though I feel we simply must upgrade to an imperial suite with dedicated butler service if that's okay (standards must be maintained)?