Where did you go on vacation?

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Impatiens

Fri, Sep 06 2024, 3:43 pm

I went to the Smokies too. I wonder how many of you we saw there Very Happy

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Seafoam ↓

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 11:01 am

We went to Thailand. We went last year as well and did different islands.

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Acacia

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 11:17 am

amother Seafoam wrote:

We went to Thailand. We went last year as well and did different islands.

Where in Thailand did you go? What did you do about food?

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Brown

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 1:03 pm

Alps 🗻
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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cornflower

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 1:06 pm

Croatia, was beautiful.

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Firethorn ↓

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 1:32 pm

Wales, it was beautiful but quite wet.
Hope to go to the French Alps next year iyH.

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↑ Firethorn

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 1:32 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

Where is that?

It's in the UK

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↑ Seafoam

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 1:54 pm

amother Acacia wrote:

Where in Thailand did you go? What did you do about food?

Chabad is on all the big islands. We see in Koh Samui and there are 5 Chabad restaurants. Two dairy two meat and sushi.

amother

Peru

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 3:05 pm

Near Carlisle, Scotland.
Was beautiful but weather wasn't too good lots of rain and strong winds.
Hiked and biked everyday and shopped when the weather made the outdoors too difficult.
Next year hope to go to Italy or France.

rainbow dash

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 5:28 pm

3 weeks in val thorens French alps by a hotel.

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Brickred ↓

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 5:35 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

Where is that?

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↑ Brickred

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 5:37 pm

amother Brown wrote:

Alps 🗻
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Also Scotland.

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↑ IndianRed ↓

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 5:49 pm

amother Impatiens wrote:

I went to the Smokies too. I wonder how many of you we saw there Very Happy

0. I didn’t see any Jews in my travels at all. (Aside from Baltimore)

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↑ IndianRed ↓

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 5:51 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

Did you go to Tennessee and hike in the mountains there?

We were in TN for a week but we didn’t do any hiking. We have little ones and decided to keep the itinerary geared towards activities we know they like

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Jetblack

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:00 pm

I went to a medium sized northeast city within driving distance of where I live bc I was in my 8th month didn’t want to fly.

Most people I know did small trips like that or maybe Florida etc. I don’t know anyone who went to Europe South America etc

I live in Toms River

fmt4

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:07 pm

amother IndianRed wrote:

NY to Great Smokies. We brought cooked (frozen) food from home and stayed in hotels/timeshares with full kitchens.

Sunday 8/18

NY to Baltimore: ~ 4 hours drive time

Residence Inn Baltimore Inner Harbor 17 Light St Baltimore, MD 21202

Things to do in Baltimore:

2 excellent playgrounds walkable from each other: Rash Field 201 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD 21230 Federal Hill Park, 300 Warren Ave, Baltimore, MD 21230 (20 minute walk from hotel)

Port Discovery Children's Museum 35 Market Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202 (10am-5pm) ($25/person) (12 minute walk from hotel)

Monday 8/19

Baltimore to Roanoke: ~ 5 hours drive time

Residence Inn Roanoke 3305 Ordway Dr NW, Roanoke, VA 24017

Things to do in Roanoke:

Virginia Museum of Transportation 303 Norfolk Ave SW, Roanoke, VA 24016 ($15/person) Historic cars and trains. (Open Tuesday) 10am-5pm

Tuesday 8/20

Roanoke to Sevierville: ~ 4 hours drive time

We stayed in my family timeshare

https://clubwyndham.wyndhamdes.....lodge

The hotel has 4 on site waterparks all included in the stay so that's what we did. There are tons of family friendly and nature activities in the area but we chose to enjoy the hotel activities to save money.

Tuesday 8/27

Sevierville to Asheville: ~ 2 hours drive time

Homewood Suites by Hilton Asheville- 88 Tunnel Rd, Asheville, NC 28805

Things to do in Asheville:

Biltmore Estate (expensive)

Wednesday 8/28

Asheville to Greensboro ~ 3 hours drive time

Homewood Suites by Hilton Greensboro 201 Centreport Dr, Greensboro, NC 27409•(336) 393-0088

Things to do in Greensboro:

Miriam P. Brenner Children's Museum 220 N Church St, Greensboro, NC 27401. (12$/person)

Thursday 8/29

Greensboro, NC to Williamsburg, VA: ~ 4 hours drive time

(we stayed in timeshare again https://clubwyndham.wyndhamdes.....sgate)

Things to do in Williamsburg: fabulous playground Kidsburg 3793 Ironbound Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23188

Sunday 9/1

Williamsburg, VA to National Harbor ~3 hours drive time (stayed in another of our timeshares https://clubwyndham.wyndhamdes.....arbor)

Monday 9/2

National Harbor to NYC 5 hours drive time

What did you do between Tuesday 8/20 and Tuesday 8/27?

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Catmint

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:08 pm

California, Switzerland, cape cod, Vermont.

BusyBoys

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:11 pm

amother IndianRed wrote:

I"m happy to send you details on what we did at all the stops, if you share an email address?

That sounds epic and would love details!
Would you pm me ?

ETA- I see the details. Ty!

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↑ IndianRed

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:25 pm

fmt4 wrote:

What did you do between Tuesday 8/20 and Tuesday 8/27?

As I said upthread, We were in TN that whole time and did activities at the resort which has numerous water parks

Amelia Bedelia

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 7:36 pm

amother Hosta wrote:

The Altair? Can you give a little more details about how it was? What are the rooms like? How was the food? And what if any activities did you do? Thanks.

I was there this winter for two nights. Breakfast is included but we didn't try their on-site fleishig restaurant for dinner. Breakfast is good but not as lavish as Israeli hotels. Also, I was there during busy season so there was a wait to get into the restaurant for breakfast. The hotel is way smaller than I expected. They don't really have a huge lobby to chill in. You can't really hang out in the building to relax other than your room. There's a small pool with short separate swimming hours. They also have a shuttle to go to a beach but the beach is pretty far away and we waited a really long time to be picked up from the beach (the shuttle to the beach around 20 minutes late to pick up and too many people were waiting, so it would have needed to do a few round trip routes-easily an hour at least- didn't help that some people arrived to the bus pick up stop after us but pushed in ahead of us on the bus Sad

.) We gave up and took an Uber back.
The next day we skipped Altair's beach and walked over to Grand Beach Hotel and hung out at their beach. It's a prettier beach too.