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

This kind of trip is necessary. Trust us.

Relationships Reporter, HuffPost

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 What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast, told........

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