Family Vacations in 2022: What Are You Planning?
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What family vacations are you planning for 2022? What family vacations did you take in 2021? How is Omicron playing into those decisions?
For our $.02, we have been extraordinarily COVID-cautious but are starting to think about planning vacations again for 2022 now that all of us are vaccinated and boosted. (In 2021 we only took vacations within driving distance, which was… fine… but gosh it would be nice to fly somewhere.)
We still feel like there’s risk, but my husband and I are trying to also be mindful of the fact that our kids are 10 and 7, and all of this *gestures wildly* has been going on since they were 8 and 5 — and may still be going on for a few more years.
Readers, what are you thinking about for family vacations in 2022? How comfortable is your family with the state of the world and the risk/reward analysis for travel?
Some links that might be helpful:
- Readers shared a ton of great tips for both Disney World and Universal Studios if you’re thinking of Orlando, FL.
- We previously rounded up some easy family vacation resorts.
- We got a ton of great comments on how to find the best kind of family vacation for your family.
- We recently rounded up the best baby travel gear.
We’ll probably do driving distance and plan more last minute. We’ve had so many issues with quarantines, etc. and some places are difficult to cancel.
We’re planning something in the Caribbean with extended family this summer, and then hopefully an October trip somewhere fun (fingers crossed for Paris!). This spring, I might take a trip home to see my dad and attend a friend’s wedding but leave my husband and toddler at home.
DH and I just went to Mexico (without kids). It was AWESOME. Of course there was the risk of us getting stuck there/quarantined but we didn’t. The resorts said they have very very few people test positive because everything we did was outside/open air. We’ll do the outer banks NC again this summer
We’re doing a Disney cruise in February! Our family is 3/4 vaccinated and our ped gave us the enthusiastic go for it. I’m very excited.
We’ve given up. We tried planning a super safe socially distanced driving vacation to a beach house in Florida last summer. We ended up canceling because hospitals were so overloaded we were afraid of what would happen if someone got sick or injured during the trip. We were in the middle of planning something for February and then omicron popped up. At this point I feel like our vacation planning actually triggers the emergence of variants. There’s just no point anymore.
Same as Kat, we’ve been extraordinarily cautious, but we’re all vaccinated and boosted if eligible and can’t live this way forever. I’m not really worried about Omicron, since there’s no evidence it’s a serious threat to vaccinated people. We will likely need to be flexible since we will have to comply with travel regulations and we might choose to reschedule a trip if hospitals in a particular place are under pressure, but we’re not going to spend another year sitting at home. We’re hoping to go to Europe at least twice as a family in 2022 (one trip would likely be in conjunction with a work trip for my husband), to the Caribbean once and to lots of different parts of the US to see family and friends we haven’t seen in a while. I’m also going on a girls trip to the Caribbean with my mom, which I’m so excited about – I haven’t been on a trip just her and me since I left for college.
I’m planning a vacation for Q2 2022 in hopes that my 2 year old will be vaccinated by then.
I’m focusing on nature-y vacations within half a day’s drive. There are so many awesome places that meet these criteria, it’s less likely the pandemic will interfere, and it’s better for the planet than flying.