For a few months now we’ve been holding on to a hotel voucher for some free night stay in some selected hotels in some of our local cities. We have yet to make up our mind where to go but we will soon have to as the voucher expires some time this month for us to make reservations.

Some of the choices we are given are hotels in Johor Bahru, Penang, Port Dickson and Kuantan. Not exactly some very exciting spots, huh? That’s why it’s been months and we still haven’t gotten down to going anywhere. I bet if we got some vouchers for Royal Caribbean cruises, we would’ve used them in the same month!

Anyway, coming back to reality of what we have been given, where do you think would be a better place for a short weekend getaway for a family with a toddler?

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For a while now I’ve been very tempted to plan for a getaway. Whether it’s a local one or one to some place far out of the country, it doesn’t matter. Of course it’s best if it’s to some place I’ve never been before.

With Air Asia having so many promotions offering cheap tickets, it’s sometimes hard to resist. Also, with so many people around us making so many trips and enjoying their vacations, it makes it even harder to brush off the travel bugs that bite.

Now that I have some flexibility in terms of time, not having to apply for annual leave to jive with job requirements, I feel a lot more comfortable about making impulsive trips. Even if it’s a short escapade for just 3 days, I think I’ll be just as thrilled and fulfilled. It doesn’t have to be one of those Outer Banks beach rentals holiday that I do hope to make one fine day.

Now if I were to make a rash decision and click on those bookings on Air Asia one of these days, where do you think I should head off to – Vietnam, Thailand, China? All these places are great for shopping and when I do travel, that’s one thing I really look forward to. I believe these 3 countries offer rather cheap shopping opportunities compared to other cities.

So where to, where to?

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Happy new year to everyone. This blog has taken quite a break since the last posting! Well I’m back…and the first thing I’m itching to shop for this year is a vacation. A family trip, to be more specific.

In the longer term, I want to go some place far, like I talked about in my mummy blog, I want to go the Disneyland in the US with my son, then maybe do a quick tour of Outer Banks and if time and cash permits, maybe we can even do a quick run to Canada.

But right now I’m also itching to go somewhere, it doesn’t have to be far, perhaps a domestic vacation would do. We were thinking of Cameron Highlands but I think I saw some landslide issue recently around that place. So maybe we should stay clear of there for now.

Any place you can recommend as a good family hot spot for the weekend? Not some place stressful please…with a kid around, we need everything to be convenient and easy-going

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I have to say it’s been quite a while since I’ve been looking at Air Asia ads or even checking out their website. So I haven’t been in the know about their new destinations being offered or whatever promotions they’re running. Then yesterday I was flipping through a copy of the latest The Edge and I saw this:

Wow! We now get to fly to Abu Dhabi for so much cheaper! I’m truly impressed. Not that I’m heading there or to Dubai anytime soon but then it’s always nice to know we do have cheaper alternatives to get to places like these now. Who knows, we may just go for the heck of it one day just because the fares are cheap, right?

I subscribe to some travel and tour website’s newsletter and whenever they send me some promotional material on places that are expensive to reach, I just delete the newsletter without much of a glance. Now I find that I may not have to throw away promotions on myrtle beach sc. because who knows, soon Air Asia may just be offering flights to the US!

Isn’t it great that we can now see a lot more of the world for a lot cheaper and more often too?

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Caravans are very popular in the Western countries. Will these mobile homes ever be something we will eventually own as a trend? Now that I have a kid in the family, I tend to think these are good vehicles to own so that we can be on the go for holidays and yet have the comfort of an almost-home so that we can do cooking easily.

For us adults, eating anything and everything is usually not a problem. But with a young toddler, we always prefer to have him eat home-cooked stuff. So a mobile home with the facilities of a small kitchen is perfect for domestic vacations anytime we want.

But I do wonder if it will ever be popular and accepted here. Why is it not here anyway? Do you wonder?

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