Slate Money - The Perfect Vacation Length
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss how long is too long for a vacation. They dig into how time zones should factor into travel plans, how much recovery time you need on the back end of a vacation, and why you should sometimes plan a trip to do absolutely nothing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money Travel. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:13.7 | Hello. |
| 0:14.7 | With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello. |
| 0:17.6 | We are going on holiday. |
| 0:18.9 | Woo! |
| 0:19.5 | And we have one big question, which is how long should we go on holiday for? |
| 0:26.6 | Eight days. |
| 0:27.9 | Week. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm also going to just follow this up with the next question, which is, what time zone are we going on holiday to? |
| 0:36.7 | Oh, if it's a new time zone, then I might have to |
| 0:40.3 | update my days of optimal holidaying. So I'm staying within my time zone. Yeah, same. So I have |
| 0:51.3 | this theory that the world is full of amazing places, amazing people, amazing cultures, |
| 0:57.7 | incredible things to see, we only live once, we have to maximize our lives to whatever |
| 1:03.1 | extent that we can. |
| 1:04.7 | And so statistically speaking, while there are lots of great places to go in the United |
| 1:08.3 | States, there are orders of magnitude, more wonderful places to go in the rest States. There are orders of magnitude, more wonderful |
| 1:12.0 | places to go in the rest of the world. It makes sense that we should and can be traveling |
| 1:17.0 | globally. And just speaking for myself as an old person, jet lag is a bitch. And so I think |
| 1:26.9 | that while a one week holiday, you can possibly get away with it if you're |
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