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At the end of every year, I post about my best and worst travel experiences of the year. Of course, this year hasn’t been typical in any way. I don’t have too many travel moments in 2020 to choose from thanks to a bunch of cancelled trips.
Best Travel Experience of 2020
Undoubtedly, my family’s best trip this year was our trip to Costa Rica in early March. This was before the world shut down and everything changed.
We had 5 care-free nights at Andaz Papagayo, and we enjoyed every minute of it! What I wouldn’t give to walk to the restaurant on the marina with the swings and ’80s music:
Worst Travel Experience of 2020
Our worst travel experience this year was our cancelled trip to Disney World. We had been looking forward to this trip for quite some time. While we have done single days at Disney World over the past few years, my family has not spent a full week doing all the parks since 2010.
But alas, Disney World wasn’t even open during our travel dates. We rescheduled the trip for 2021 and instead did a couple of socially-distanced vacation home rentals. While those short getaways were nice, I am really itching to do some more adventurous travel.
Plans for 2021
We already postponed a trip we were supposed to take in mid-January to a rental cabin in Broken Bow. With the high virus numbers and cold weather, we just weren’t feeling it.
In 2021, we hope to make it to the beach for Spring Break. This summer, we have plans to travel to Disney World and Cancun (both trips were postponed from 2020). In addition, we’d like to visit our families that we haven’t seen in many months due to the pandemic.
With our credit card free nights, we might start visiting colleges in the fall (gasp!).
Overall, I am hopeful about 2021 and excited for the opportunity for another year on this earth.
What were the best and worst travel experiences for you in 2020? What are your plans for 2021?
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Author: Nancy
Nancy lives near Dallas, Texas, with her husband and three kids. Her favorite vacations include the beach, cruising and everything Disney.
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2020 year made everyone sit home and avoid travelling. Still in the end of the year i went on a trip to Italy which was the best travel experience of 2020.
Best? We took a short road trip to southern Kentucky in July. Cave country, horseback riding, and a boat rental for a couple days to speed around the lake and tube.
Worst? Cancelled Alaska cruise. Cancelled Disney Thanksgiving trip.
We have plans to visit the southwest in June (Grand Canyon, Page, Zion). Hopefully the vaccines have a substantial roll out by then, but so far the efforts of the federal government on that have been pitiful.
@projextx Your trip to Kentucky sounds awesome. I agree that the rollout of the vaccines has been a mess so far.
We flew into Pheonix and did the Grand Canyon, Page, and Zion trip last spring and had a great time. We spent the first few days in Sedona before heading to the Grand Canyon. Sedona has a lot of really fun hikes (our family really enjoyed the Cathedral hike). Grand Canyon was nice but really glad we only spent one day there and moved on up to Page. Slot canyons, horshoe bend, and the dam were very neat. Zion was awesome and hiking was great. We stopped and did a tour of Walnut Canyon national monument to break up the drive from Zion back to Phoenix airport. Walnut Canyon was very interesting and highly recommended!
Thanks for the tips, Erik! Right now we’re flying RT through Vegas, but thinking about changing it to an arrival in PHX and a return from LAS instead to cut an hour off of our drive time to the GC. Our plans are in flux right now due to the Navajo Nation closures of Antelope Canyon, and nobody knows which way it will go come June. If it remains closed, we’re going to change up our itinerary and include Bryce. But we’ll for sure make a stop at Horseshoe Bend on our drive from the GC.
My wife and I visited Sedona a couple years ago and had a blast. It’s a wonderful area!