Vacation V Staycation Costs

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Hi TDA, and when you did your ‘cost comparison’ did you feel the additional monies were well spent?!!

Flew to St Mary’s regularly for 4 years for work but prior to that did a surprise trip for Jean, she had never been, and flew to Tresco to stay at the Hell Bay hotel.

We arrived on a Thursday and awoke the next day to news of the volcano eruption in Iceland and with all flights banned the knock on effect meant we had to come back on the Scillonian but, thankfully, it was  sunny and calm.

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My start of my work on the Scillies coincided with the end of the helicopter service so only flew once for work and next flight was cancelled at short notice so it was onto the planes.

Newquay is better for me so only flew from Lands End once.
Those who have done so will know that they may weigh you, as they need to ‘balance’ the aircraft, and one lady took exception to her, it must be said not minuscule weight, being read out rather loudly.

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And when some  posts are moderated it completely looses what is posted on those that are left in?

as i  emailed to the CM about thread drift and "agendas?"

It was Mum and Dad’s first holiday down in Cornwall, so as we had a cottage in Penzance, weather was gorgeous, so we decided to go over to Scillies using the heavily discounted vouchers given at the time in The Cornishman. (I still occasionally read it online👍) So we all had tickets at £16 each to sail there and back. Absolute bargain to enjoy something different, relaxing for Mum and Dad, who were in late 70’s at the time, still able to walk a long way, so I knew we could take a good look around. Mill pond calm. I started turning green almost past Mousehole, it was a nightmare after that. Mum, Dad and Sister fine. So for me £8 to get there, £80 to fly back. Great value for the day, no idea how much it is now, but I would fly next time. It’s a very special place, want to go back and island hop, spend some time researching history, walking, discovering. We did get to have a lovely swim though, warm waters, crystal clear. Interesting being on St Mary after ship had gone, back to quiet tranquillity. Just shows the impact visitors can have in Summer, even the day trippers. Tresco Gardens on my list👍😁

I doubt I would feel good on that crossing ever☹️ I have done Greek island hopping, and lots of times on CalMac Ferries without any problems, but it was bad, made me very wary of any type of sea crossing. But I get ill in certain cars (Citroen’s 🤢), coaches, buses. Ended up in hospital with severe travel sickness a couple of years ago in our own MH🤷‍♀️, so it’s a lottery with me. Fine on trains so long as I can face forwards. Cycling seems ok so far🤔😁

"It’s a very special place, want to go back and island hop, spend some time researching history, walking, discovering."

careful what you wish for, when we stayed on Bryher we only booked bed and breakfast with the intention of island hoping and perhaps eating on a different island, however, the last ferry back to Bryher was 1800 hrs so we quickly had to change to BB&evening meal, however, there was so much food OH had to revert to asking for childrens portions.

We stayed at the Hell Bay hotel, and we still have hanging on a bedroom wall a painting of Hells Bay done by a local guy whilst we were there , think i will put on our list of places to re-visit, does it count as staycation or vacation?, either way I am sure we would totally enjoy it.