vacation spots in november?

[hardstylin]

I know there a couple of very well traveled people on here so im looking for some advice.

i wanna take a 10day vaca in mid november to somewhere nice.

im not really down for a hookers and blow vacation, im looking for a relax and see the sites type vaca.

-no warzones
-no hurricanes
-no huge fucking spiders :)

+some kind of fishing
+swim up bar
+wildlife ++ocean wildlife

[rawb]

OBV VEGAS l

[mapleleaf4ever]

Dominican Republic
St. Maarten
Margarita Island
St. Lucia
Barbados
Turks and Caicos

[cubed]

Belize.

[ebbomega]

BECAUSE WHEN I'M AVOIDING HOOKERS AND BLOW VEGAS IS THE FIRST PLACE I THINK TO.

I already mentioned Sombrio in another thread... West Coast Trail will be fairly sparsely populated. But expect lots of.... well....

[mikey]

spain or greece.

[mojo]

Cuba
-serious fishing, amazing culture/architecture/society as a whole, a ton of canadian partnered resorts
Belize
-amazing cayes, seafood is unreal ( I would assume there is fishing then), mainland ecology and a cool Caribe culture, manateeeeeeees

If you go to Cuba though try to find a one week pachage that will let you push the return flight a week, then spend that second week exploring. Havana is unreal.

[cubed]

^My cousin went to Belize on his honeymoon and had nothing but great things to say about it. He did a lot of snorkeling while he was there and enjoyed the manatees.

Manatees, god's favourite mistake.

[wtf_wtf]

punta cana, dominican republic! actually goin there myself mid nov :)

[miss.myra]

my brother is going to cuba in nov. g'damn i wish i was too.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by cubed

Manatees, god's favourite mistake.

DUGONG!

[ebbomega]

GIVE ME THE CUDDLE....fish.... *sigh*

[hardstylin]

Belize is looking pretty solid right now!

[mojo]

Originally Posted by hardstylin

Belize is looking pretty solid right now!

word. Plus Tikal in Guatemala is an easy 4-5 hours from Belize City....and is some of the most spectacular Mayan ruins unearthed by man to date., imo.
Check it out man. Plus, a long days travel from Roatan/Utila, some of the best diving in C.A.

[omega_image]

I'll leak the secret vacation spot that everyone should go to, but no one know's about....

St Barths, Saint Barths, St Barth, St Barts, Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies

thank me when you get back.

[diva]

I don't get it? What's so secret about St.Barts?

[Revolver]

I passed through belize last summer, its fantastic and like mojo said, tikal is only a couple hours away and those ruins are SPECTACULAR and pretty unique due to the fact there in such dense jungle.

belize is right smack in line of hurricane paths but perhaps by november you should be ok.

if you want swim-up bars and all-in sort of things im tellin ya....PLAYA DEL CARMEN is pretty amazing. for the longest time all-in sort of travel was really not my thing but ever since ive been through playa,and as i..aherm 'mature' (lol). i can deff see the appeal.

you mentioned wildelife,no warzones, and that you want to go fishing? based on what you want you should look into:

Costa Rica - Home

I cant go on enough how AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL Costa Rica is. its truly a paradise. a full-on haven for beaches,all-in resorts,eco-tourism and wildlife. you can choose eaither pacific/carib. side to avoid hurricane issues and the sea fishing on the pacific side is spectacular, prolly the best in all of central america. when i was there it was exploding with investment and Infrastructure development. It also lacks any military at all and there are ZERO political problems little social strife. the countries national slogan?....PURA VIDA!

gah! my travel/adventure legs are getting pumped up!!!

[Courtney]

i neeed to go to costa rica

[Revolver]

^^ neg karma? lolololol...

***ahhh, karma button is broken and only negs. miles you should fix that glitch***

[cubed]

Originally Posted by Revolver

Costa Rica - Home

I cant go on enough how AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL Costa Rica is. its truly a paradise. a full-on haven for beaches,all-in resorts,eco-tourism and wildlife. you can choose eaither pacific/carib. side to avoid hurricane issues and the sea fishing on the pacific side is spectacular, prolly the best in all of central america. when i was there it was exploding with investment and Infrastructure development. It also lacks any military at all and there are ZERO political problems little social strife. the countries national slogan?....PURA VIDA!

gah! my travel/adventure legs are getting pumped up!!!

I'd say in November hurricanes aren't really an issue as they tend to rip through during the summer months, especially August. From my understanding Costa Rica is not nearly the cheap secluded get away it used to be. It's been over run by American tourists looking for that special something.

[ash1ee]

The Atlantic hurricane season is officially from 1 June to 30 November. There is nothing magical in these dates, and hurricanes have occurred outside of these six months, but these dates were selected to encompass over 97% of tropical activity. June 1st has been the traditional start of the Atlantic hurricane season for decades. However, the end date has been slowly shifted outward, from October 31st to November 15th until its current date of November 30th.


In my experience, Sept/Oct are where you have to cautious w hurricanes. If it was me planning a trip somewhere that far, which little options if you had to be evacuated...i'd go another time of the year. Hurricanes suck. Ruined vacations suck even more.

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by cubed

I'd say in November hurricanes aren't really an issue as they tend to rip through during the summer months, especially August. From my understanding Costa Rica is not nearly the cheap secluded get away it used to be. It's been over run by American tourists looking for that special something.

i found costa rica to be extremely cheap. reading back on my travel logs from 07 it was about 1usd for a bottle of beer, 5-10 usd for nice dinners and decent hotels are around 20usd activities and site seeings were pretty reasonable too like horseback riding for a day for like 30 bucks ect. ect.

all tastes are suited too so you can spend alot if one wanted to.

Its popular with westerners cause its pretty safe but its more suited to eco-friendly travel so the american influence would not be as bad as say...the dominican, or mexico.

drawing on hardstylings criteria,fishing,wildlife, costa rica is what i would recomend.

[cubed]

^ Our SA journey needs to be planned, I'm thinking 2010, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by cubed

^ Our SA journey needs to be planned, I'm thinking 2010, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

Jim, your speaking my language man in the biggest way!

by that time its looking like ill have the ins and outs of the travel biz on serious lock.

Oh, add Columbia to that list:nuts: i was suprised at just how safe it really is and amazed at its beauty and travel-friendliness

[cubed]

Originally Posted by Revolver

Oh, add Columbia to that list:nuts: i was suprised at just how safe it really is and amazed at its beauty and travel-friendliness

Only if I can get fat, grow a mustache and pretend I'm Pablo Escobar while I'm there.