I was all excited to visit with my friends who spent ten days on a tropical island in Asia last month. They spent about 40 hours in cars, airplanes and airports from Jamestown North Dakota USA to get there and arrived after dark. They took a taxi to a fancy resort hotel and then never left the resort the entire ten days.

The hotel they stayed at was not all inclusive and they had to pay a retail rate at the restaurant, bars and shops. If they walked out of the hotel into town the prices would be half as much.

I asked them what they did at the resort and they said they ate, drank lots of beer and wine and chatted with people at the pool. In the evenings they partied at the bars at the hotel. Basically they hung out in their room, at the pool, ate lots of food, drank lots of booze and relaxed. They said it was a perfect vacation. This was their first trip to Asia.

I asked them why they did not tour the island or at least take a drive to a near by outside mall and tourist area where they could shop, walk around and see a bit of the island on the way. They said, "why would we when the resort was so nice?" And most of the people they talked to at the pool and the hotel bars never left the resort either.

I think going to a vacation destination that takes them over 40 hours to get there and not leaving the resort the entire time is odd, but I don't want to be over judgmental because it is their vacation but wonder what the users of Reddit think of this approach to a vacation. What do you think, would you fly all the way from the USA to Bali to stay inside the resort for 100% of your vacation?