Talk:Spring break

Other kinds of spring breaks?

In the Nordic countries we have the winter and Easter breaks, which work as spring breaks (and the Easter break seems to coincide), but the current description in this article does not match my experience. Over here people often travel to ski resorts for the Holy Week or Easter, and some do party there, but it is common to travel as family or for skiing proper, even cross-country skiing into the wilderness. Beach destinations are a quite popular alternative (and some do hard partying there), but still…

I suppose we should give some weight also to these other destinations, and some more weight to the non-rowdy travellers.

–LPfi (talk) 18:42, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

At least in North America, I think the term "Spring Break" is widely understood to involve hard-core partying. There are still people here who take trips to ski resorts, national parks, or myriad other destinations, but those kinds of trips are covered in other topics (including Easter travel). We have plenty of articles about non-rowdy travelers, I would kind of like to see one focus on less well-behaved travel. Mrkstvns (talk) 19:05, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

If you want to add some tamer destinations, feel free to do so. I added a section for Family destinations where they might fit, or feel free to add other sections. Mrkstvns (talk) 20:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Your first answer remedied my confusion. I think it is OK to have this article handle the "hard-core partying" side of things, and trying to mix in tamer destinations would change the spirit of it – the reason I didn't just start adding new sentences and sections.

What we should do, I think, is to make the scope of the article clearer for those who (like me) don't have an understanding of the term "Spring Break". Many of our editors are from countries where English is a second language and, I suppose, an even bigger part of our readers. Thus terms well understood in the U.S. often need to be explained.

–LPfi (talk) 06:43, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I made a try at that clarification. –LPfi (talk) 06:50, 5 September 2024 (UTC)