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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 15 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. Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.7	forward slash express.
0:33.7	Hello, welcome to Slate Money Travel.
0:40.7	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:43.8	Hello.
0:44.4	With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times.
0:46.7	Hello.
0:47.1	We are going on holiday.
0:48.9	Woo!
0:49.5	And we have one big question, which is, how long should we go on holiday for eight days week okay
0:59.6	I'm also going to just follow this up with the next question which is what time zone are we going
1:05.4	on holiday too oh if it's a new time zone then I might have to update my days of optimal holidaying.
1:14.6	So I'm staying within my time zone.
1:17.9	Yeah, same.
1:20.3	So I have this theory that the world is full of amazing places, amazing people, amazing cultures, incredible things to see.
1:28.9	We only live once.
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