Do you look forward to Christmas? Many of us do, but it’s actually quite a divisive time of the year. It’s absolutely brilliant so long as you actually like meeting up with friends and family that you haven’t seen all that much of.
But it’s not like everybody enjoys the Christmas period every year. Sometimes the family can be a bit much, and even when most of us are having a nice time, there’s always somebody who carries the burden of making sure the event goes off well. We may all be living in ‘It’s a wonderful life’, but somebody still gets to be ‘The Grinch who stole Christmas’.
This year, you might be thinking of getting away. In the temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere, this makes a general kind of sense anyway. Christmas time is really rather cold (you may happen to know this for yourself). So why not get away somewhere warm?
Not that getting away isn’t a gigantic pain when it actually comes to this time of year. Annoyance the first is that the public transport doesn’t stay open. It’s not that we can blame those who work on the system – who wants to be working over Christmas, unless they’re paid very well? – But it is rather unfortunate that just as you want to get away, everyone stops helping you to!
And then secondly, you’ve got the chaos that December weather can bring. In the past, we’ve seen hundreds of people stranded in European airports, and those across the Atlantic. Flight is impossible even if runways can be cleared: low visibility keeps planes on the tarmac, and holidaymakers holed up in a terminal. Not pleasant.
But if you decide to chance the seasonal chaos, where should you go? Somewhere warm beckons for many couples and singles, but the Caribbean won’t suit everybody.
Family holidays in the Caribbean are still a fantastic idea, but there are several other compelling options. Florida is a fantastic destination for when you kids have grown beyond the Santa Claus phase: Disneyland offers all the magic of Lapland and is versatile enough to be entertaining for even the most cynical teenager. Why not go to the happiest place on earth this Christmas?
Happy holidays!
This has been a post on behalf of Florida Holidays by Kenwood Travel who are putting all of their effort into providing the best 2012 Orlando holidays packages available on the internet and beyond!
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