How much vacation time are you given? - Page 13 - Cruise Line Fans: Cruise Reviews and Chat From Real Cruisers

nealberk · 08-03-2008, 06:44 AM

Boy all these people get more vacation than I do. I gotta be doing something wrong.

Char · 08-03-2008, 08:40 AM

but you're working on it, right?

gesualdo · 08-03-2008, 12:29 PM

DH and I are spoiled. As state government employees, we each get 10 hours vacation and 10 hours sick leave each month. As a state employee in another state, I started off at 7 hours vacation per month and had worked up to 10 hours per month by the time I moved 7 years later. When we moved, I started at 10 hours per month. I'll never be able to move back. (Actually - that's not true. I think I get to pick up where I left off. But our new state takes much better care of us than our previous state.) For both vacation and sick leave, the time continues to build until you hit a certain threshold, at which point you must use some of your leave before you can build up more leave. The threshold ceiling is higher with each year of service. Some long-time employees who don't bother with vacations have incredible amounts built up. Not me. I like to travel.

In addition, we get around 15 holidays each year, which can change, depending on whether certain minor holidays fall on Saturdays (in which case, we don't get the holiday). The major holidays are always rearranged to a weekday if they fall on a weekend. Since we work for a university and are subject to the school schedule, we don't get to take off for President's Day and all those other bank holidays that no one else gets off. But they are still holidays and we do get them. They are shuffled to the end of December/first of January and we get a nice, 2-week holiday around Christmas. We also get a couple of days off at the end of Spring Break.

We can't really use our holidays for cruising because that's when everyone else takes vacations. But the beauty of not having kids is that it's fairly easy to take vacations almost anytime. We like to time our trips when we think things will be less crowded. We stay home for spring break and we use our Christmas holiday time to visit family and unwind.

lass1959 · 08-04-2008, 04:14 PM

I chose other since I am in education...and we get from May 23rd (or around there) to August 1st off. So that is 2 full months and then we have Spring Break, Fall break and Christmas holidays. I like to cruise during my fall break and I have been known to go during Spring Break too!

Pungo3 · 08-09-2008, 11:29 AM

Another hard one to answer. Officially, I receive 4 weeks vacation per year. But, I also get 3 personal days to do whatever I want and could use them for vacation. We also get 13 days of paid holidays which I like to take vacation around. That makes me feel like I got more vacation. So....I really can stretch my 4 weeks into 7 weeks if I take it at the right time.

Life is good and I love my job.

CyndiC · 08-13-2008, 09:43 AM

I accrue 22 hours a month plus 12 holdays. It all gets banked and I can use about 7-8 weeks a year if I want. If I don't use them, they roll over and are available next year as along as I use a minimum of 98 hours a year.

cruisingcouple · 08-14-2008, 06:59 AM

I am stay-at-home, so my life is a vacation, lmao! I do try to keep busy with my activities like housework, bowling and my orchids (and of course cruising).

-Lee