If you won christmas trip for 5, where will you go & who will you take with you?
By loxion
@loxion (1553)
India
November 17, 2008 7:20am CST
A cousin of mine has won a Christmas trip for 5 to anywhere he wants. They say he may take anyone, be it friends and family, but now the problem is that he is not sure where he wants to go and not yet decided on the country or a nice place
Now he has all the people he wants to take with him, but not yet decided on a place, he is thinking of countries like USA and UK
Any suggestion from people in the USA or UK here? please we want to make researches on suggested places as soon as possible. We should supply the company with that info before December 20th
Or if it was you, what's the nice place which you would prefer to go?
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7 responses
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
17 Nov 08
I would suggest a trip to New York City, USA. New York is really festive and beautiful during the Christmas season. Your cousin would probably enjoy it. There are many tourist attractions and the city never sleeps. You would be able to do things all hours of the day.
If I were to win a trip like that, I would like to go to Las Vegas, I have been there before, but it would be nice to go back, since someone else would be paying for it.
I would take my husband, son, mother (if she would go) my sister and niece.
Hope your cousin have a safe and wonderful trip whereever destination is chosen.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
18 Nov 08
That is a very wonderful Christmas gift! Had I been given that opportunity I'd bring along my hubby and my only son of course and my two twin grandchildren to complete the 5. I have no other countries in mind except the Holy Land. I've been wishing to visit that place and I hope it would be in a year or two.
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
17 Nov 08
I do not know where I would want to go. I have so many things going on here that I really have not thought about that. My friend was asked where he wanted to go because his sister was going to send him where he wanted and he said: Nepal. Nepal??? Cheers!!!
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
17 Nov 08
I am not much for going anywhere as I love where I love. The air is fine, and we have beautiful scenery. However, if I were to go anywhere I would probably pick a mountain or something of that sort. Since we are only two hours away from one, I would pick that one. The Great Smoky Mountains are supposedly tourist attractions. Going somewhere like Pidgeon Fordge in Tennessee is also a good place.
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@sweety_81 (2124)
• India
19 Nov 08
Well; I would love to go to NewZealand along with my Husband and my Brothers too .
NewZealand is a great place to be :
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@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
18 Nov 08
Wow! your friend that won a Christmas trip for 5 to anywhere he wants is incredibly lucky. If I was in the same situation I would take 1. myself. 2. My older son. 3. My younger son. 4. my youngest niece and my mum. If I was considering going to a UK destination I would decide on the Yorkshire coast. We could go to Scarborough, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay. Alternatively if I was going to the USA I would include Canada as well. We could go to Washington DC, New York, Boston and Montreal. Christmas would be cold in all those destinations. I have spent a lovely warm Christmas in Australia and in New Zealand. South Africa would be another great choice for Christmas seeing Cape Town in the sunshine. Snow is fun to see at Christmas time and Salzburg and the mountains in Austria look so beautiful covered in a white blanket.








