Stupidcations: Spare Me, Please
I don't have anything against taking trips with my women friends -- in fact I just got back from one. And it's kind of sweet when pregnant couples take one last trip as a couple together.
But why does the travel industry have to shamelessly cash in on these trends with cutesy trip names like "girlfriend getaways" and "babymoons"? My email box is clogged with press releases promoting lots of those, not to mention intimacymoons, conceptionmoons, mancations (just for guys), and the latest, nakations (trips for nudists).
We say, don't stop there.
As we announce in this week's Travel section, we'd like to help the travel industry come up with more stupid vacation names, and we invite you to offer more ideas to get the wheels of specialty travel turning. Send us your names for new types of vacations (be funny! be creative!) and, in a display of total subjectivity, we'll publish our favorites. Send your nominations to travel@washpost.com and put Stupidcations in the subject field. We'll send a Travel section knickknack, doodad or gewgaw to the authors of the funniest types of trips.
By K.C. Summers |
February 15, 2008; 2:36 PM ET
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Posted by: Barbara | February 15, 2008 3:11 PM
this sounds like a job for The Style Invitational
Posted by: Glenn | February 15, 2008 4:38 PM
Hey, all Style Invitational devotees are hereby invited to get in on our wordplay action. The travel industry could use some of their, ah, ingenuity.
Posted by: KC Summers | February 15, 2008 4:43 PM
Omg. Conceptionmoons? I think if anyone I knew told me they were going on a conceptionmoon...yeah, I just don't want to know that. Memo to my friends: keep it to yourself. Also, you can have sex at home.
Posted by: h3 | February 15, 2008 8:34 PM
My list is on the way!!!
Posted by: rja112 | February 19, 2008 12:45 AM
The only thing I'm coming up with is "Graycation", for the active-and-over-60 set.
Posted by: Not a marketing major... | February 19, 2008 1:48 PM
My mom and her travel companion and friend of many years went on a "last earthly adventure" before her friend's death from breast cancer.
Tough trip for both of them but one mom does not regret.
I can only imagine the marketing for these trips.
Posted by: Sad One | February 19, 2008 4:50 PM
Trails end? Last call?
Posted by: Tom | February 19, 2008 4:53 PM
Sad One: Not exactly the same thing but a number of years ago my mother and her younger sister went on a Road Trip. Not sure of their exact route but they stopped to see family and old friends along the way. My mother saw a friend of her's that she hadn't seen in something like 50 years. I think the trip lasted about 4 or 6 weeks and my aunt did all the driving. My siblings and I referred to them as Thelma and Louise. I think that was about 2 years befor my aunt died, and 5 befor my mom did. They had a blast!!!
Posted by: rja112 | February 20, 2008 3:22 AM
Nakations.com is where I just learned about all this...LOL! I stumbled on it, and learned all about these nude vacations. I'm going to take my wifey to a topless resort!
Posted by: Jimmy | February 20, 2008 4:21 PM
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How can anyone top 'Nakations'? Or maybe I should say how can anyone topless Nakations?