All great vacation options for minimum wage employees if only the minimum wage were to be raised to 15 bucks an hour.
Except here.
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How much more will your Big Mac cost if we raise the minimum wage?
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Except here.
J-Bay would be my dream surf trip. Perhaps someday. I also have family on an island between Finland and Sweden that I'd like to visit in the next few years. No surf there though.
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Didn't he say stock market? Better cash in now, I see capital gains taxes going up soon, and not a little.
Hossegor is cheap as fuck, especially if you camp. And yes, waves are fucking amazing. Watch out for the Aussie surfers though, buncha moochers.
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You don’t even need to camp in hossegor to save money in the fall. It’s stupid how much the price of apartments goes down, from talking with other foreigners it was almost the same as camping. Although I could see it being a big difference during peak season.
I agree to an extent. It's hard to justify leaving CA or even the east coast during the prime season of France from a surf quality standpoint. And you definitely want a car.I'm with GromsDad on this one. I've been to London, Barcelona, and the stretch from Barcelona to Perpignan. If I don't have to go back to Europe for work I won't. No thanks. I don't think counting on your boards getting on the trains is a wise idea, and everyone I've ever asked says you desperately need a car in SW France to chase sandbars and avoid crowds.
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Gas costs a fucking fortune and everyone and their brother says France is crazy tide-sensitive, you need to be in your wetsuit, at the spot, paddling out, if it looks like whatever the tide is doing *could* make the waves improve. I've been told the current can be insane.
It makes about negative infinity sense to leave the East Coast Sept/Oct/Nov. July/August is the bail time.
I've travelled a little more than GromsDad, and if I've learned one thing, it's that I'm a North American. I like Canada and Mexico the most.
AND CALIFORNIA
However if I were coming from the east coast, I would take France over CA in a heartbeat. There's something to be said about the sandbanks there.
Airfare are super cheap right now all over, because nobody wants to travel and deal with unknown Covid issues and restrictions.
Getting tests just prior to leaving and then again coming back. Risk of quarantines when arriving, and assorted other closed and lock-downs businesses and tourist related activities, make it a gamble having a typical fun and event filled trip.
You can fly RT to Hawaii for under $250 on some off-peak days right now. But you need to test positive just before leaving, and again tested when you arrive. And likely will need to test before you come back home, depending on location of "home".
We haven't seen RT prices like that for 30 years, because no one's going anywhere far, except the wealthy.
Getting tests just prior to leaving and then again coming back. Risk of quarantines when arriving, and assorted other closed and lock-downs businesses and tourist related activities, make it a gamble having a typical fun and event filled trip.
You can fly RT to Hawaii for under $250 on some off-peak days right now. But you need to test positive just before leaving, and again tested when you arrive. And likely will need to test before you come back home, depending on location of "home".
We haven't seen RT prices like that for 30 years, because no one's going anywhere far, except the wealthy.
appreciate that captain obvious!
RT to Hawaii usually costs me around 450ish pre pandemic..same as a flight to CR, or a little cheaper for mainland Mex.
Cheapest RT to Hawaii I'm seeing is $540 for when I want to go. Last year at the same time it was $860. I'd be flying from Newark or Philadelphia.
I bet I'd feel the same way if I was going for a week, but most of us aren't. If you live in VB or farther South, you are probably planning on a week+, "primary" surf trip in June/July/August to someplace that catches Souths in the Pacific, eg Latin America. There's another subset who live somewhere between Hatteras and Greenland, especially NJ and North, and they want to go somewhere in January/February, and requirement #1 is trunks.
The beauty of California is that it's a plausible 3/4 day weekend trip. You only have to be at the airport an hour before departure. You can get to California from lots of places. They have an ample supply of red-eyes to save you a vacation day. The gnarly time change is after you are done surfing, not at the start of your trip.
Agreed. In terms of swell and weather consistency California is a pretty safe bet in fall and winter. if you are mobile you will find waves somewhere. You may have to choose between battling it out at a point break with dozens of heads or surfing relatively alone in the worlds most perfectly groomed closeouts (like where i live lol) but there will be waves.
The overall issue for both east and west coasters in terms Europe is that you are leaving the best conditions in your home for the hope of the same conditions where you are going. It's tough to justify from an apples to apples standpoint. You have to look at it more holistically as a travel experience where you hope for good surf too.
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