Forget The Stacked Itinerary, What You Need Is A ‘Plop' Holiday

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There are trips where you pack every waking moment full of sightseeing, activities and excursions. And then there are trips you spend mostly horizontal: laying in a lounge chair, reading a book, sipping on a cold beverage and occasionally getting up for a dip in the ocean or pool.

The latter is what cookbook author and mum-of-four Caroline Chambers aptly refers to as a “plop vacation.”

A “plop” holiday is one in which you “wake up in the morning and pack a pool or beach bag, and literally plop by the pool or beach for the entire day,” Chambers explained in a comment on an Instagram post from a Mexico trip she and her family took earlier this year.  

It’s similar to what folks in the travel world call a “fly and flop,” Chambers, author of the forthcoming Read Entire Article