I’ve learned that the best thing is to do the research on what you want to see. Find out if there are best times or only times for anything you think will be especially fun, then let the vacation work itself out organically. In that past I planned like your type A friends and it really bothered my husband and it felt like we needed a vacation from our vacation because I put so much into the limited time because I wanted to get my time/money’s worth of the places we went. Now we go with an options list and pick what we do each day. The options list does include scheduled activities but we don’t have to do them, it’s more so we know that if we want to do them that’s when it needs to happen. This is important because we don’t feel obligated but we don’t miss out due to no/little planning. Vacations got much better and more fulfilling once we blended these styles.
