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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4260 on: May 18, 2017, 10:06:26 AM »
I would say Prague and Vienna. Ticks off every single box you gave. Can also take a 1hr flight over to ZRH (or drive).
Spend a full day driving between Prague and Vienna, some of EUs most visually appealing scenery and quaint villages.
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Do you think Italy is too hot in August? Or you think Prague and Vienna is just as nice?
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4261 on: May 18, 2017, 10:08:25 AM »
Thanks.
Do you think Italy is too hot in August? Or you think Prague and Vienna is just as nice?
Not sure about weather but I do think they are just as nice.

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4262 on: May 18, 2017, 10:09:20 AM »
Not sure about weather but I do think they are just as nice.
Thanks.
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4263 on: May 18, 2017, 02:27:43 PM »
Thanks.
Do you think Italy is too hot in August? Or you think Prague and Vienna is just as nice?
From someone that loves Prague and Vienna (been to Prague 3x and Vienna 2x), I would recommend Italy over them if you haven't been

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4264 on: May 18, 2017, 02:33:29 PM »
Is Italy doable with an infant?
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4265 on: May 18, 2017, 02:39:48 PM »
Is Italy doable with an infant?
Doable is all relative. I did it with a 4 month old and had a blast.

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4266 on: May 18, 2017, 04:16:24 PM »
Any ideas where I can go for warm vacation 3-4 hour flight from NY where I can have a 5* villa with private pool and private beach?
Any leads? Needs to be a place with kosher food. Paying up to $800 per night.
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4267 on: May 18, 2017, 04:27:33 PM »
Any leads? Needs to be a place with kosher food. Paying up to $800 per night.

Isn't there some place people are going with private villas in Riviera Maya? 

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4268 on: May 18, 2017, 06:15:24 PM »
Is Italy doable with an infant?
I have been there with an infant and enjoyed it just as much as when I was there without.

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4269 on: May 18, 2017, 06:30:15 PM »
I have been there with an infant and enjoyed it just as much as when I was there without.
There is simply no way that VCE is as enjoyable with an infant as without.
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4270 on: May 18, 2017, 06:50:58 PM »
Is Italy doable with an infant?
Age?
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4271 on: May 18, 2017, 06:52:35 PM »
There is simply no way that VCE is as enjoyable with an infant as without.

In my view, if you have to push a stroller - it will not be enjoyable... lots of steps/bridges over canals, etc...

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4272 on: May 18, 2017, 07:21:03 PM »
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4273 on: May 18, 2017, 07:26:17 PM »
Firstly, there is a lot more to Italy than just Venice. Secondly, as long as someone stays near the ghetto on Shabbos, pushing a stroller during the weekday would certainly exceed the criteria of being "doable." Especially a stroller with large bicycle wheels and/or a baby carrier.

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4274 on: May 18, 2017, 07:38:53 PM »
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4275 on: May 18, 2017, 07:56:10 PM »
Is Italy doable with an infant?
what happened to your nanny??

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4276 on: May 18, 2017, 08:05:06 PM »
She's still around.  My wife wants to take the baby this time.  Perhaps we can also take the nanny, we'll see.
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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4277 on: May 18, 2017, 09:09:32 PM »
Any leads? Needs to be a place with kosher food. Paying up to $800 per night.
needs to be by ocean or lake is fine?

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4278 on: May 19, 2017, 02:04:36 AM »
There is simply no way that VCE is as enjoyable with an infant as without.
As @moish said, from what I recall Italy is bigger than VCE but even there was more than fine.
By infant I mean infant, not toddler.
But I do disagree with that. I have been there with and without numerous times and enjoyed it all the same.
Throw on a comfortable baby carrier and you are good to go. If you are in the properties on the other side of the island and have a combined 3 hr mandatory walking in extremely hot and humid weather over shabbos to do, that may be a different story, but I never recommend staying there either way.
Not being able to do a particular activity doesn't make the trip/vacation/getaway any less enjoyable. In Thailand they wouldn't allow me to go on the Zipline with a 3 month old strapped to my back no matter how much I begged and pleaded   but I guarantee I had the same enjoyable Thailand experience as the next guy.

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Re: Next Vacation - Ideas
« Reply #4279 on: May 19, 2017, 08:26:33 AM »
For my honeymoon later this year we're going to Italy for from November 6th to the 19th or 20th with at least two nights in each of Milan, Venice, Florence, Siena/Tuscany, Naples and Rome.

Since that is only 12 nights (if we do 2 in each place) we have three extra nights to disperse. I'm thinking Florence and Naples since that will allow us time to do a day trip to Pompeii.  Any suggestions on the 3rd extra night? Milan is more or less out because we'd have to change hotels and if we're changing anyway might as well head to a new city. The other option is we spend a night in London visiting friends...

Thoughts, suggestions?