Is it a vacation scam?

If you are similar to me you probally like to take more than one vacation a year. If you are a normal person you never take the second vacation at the same place you took the first one.

Taking any kind of vacation today can be a costly proposition if you do not plan it right and steer away from things you can do anytime at home. What I mean is why would anyone want to go on vacation and go to the movies? Movies are becoming more costly every day and almost as much as going to a theme park at your favorite vacation destination.

You can wait a month or so and then rent the movie at home for only $ 4.99 and if you are a family of 5 you can save $ 24.00 just off the ticket prices. Another big saving is the refreshments. Why in the world would anyone want to pay $6.00 for a soda? You can get 24 cans of soda at your favorite shopping mall on sale for 5 bucks. You have to pay over 5 bucks for a box of candy when can get 5 boxes of the same candy at the dollar tree for 1.00 dollar a box, and the pop corn it outrageous as well.

Yes they have to make money at these places but let's get real; there is a difference in making money then ripping people off. They do not have to make 400 percent on every item they sell. Everyone is brain washed in believing that to have a fun time at the movies you need to be eating something. Eat at home before you go to the movies and just enjoy the show if you can't wait till it comes out on video cd or rent it in your resort or hotel room for one price.

Another thing I cannot understand is why do people want to go shopping while they are vacationing? If you are a working person and get off on Friday for the weekend, you can shop till you drop anytime. I can pretty well bet that if you go to a resort location or one of your favorite travel spots the stores there have the same items you can get where you live. All the junk they are selling is from some foreign country who has stolen your job and they get your money and you get their junk. In many vacation areas the stores sell the same items for a higher premium because of the traffic they get and the higher cost of the stores rent they have to pay.

So to my way of thinking we have been conditioned to believe these are part of a vacation package. The truth is doing things that you cannot normally do while you are in your home area is what vacationing is all about. Like going to Disney World- SeaWorld-Universal Studios or some kind of water park or even DollyWood or how about a day at the beach. Spending the entire time with your family having a few days away from the normal is really what vacationing is all about.