The WP has an excellent personal finance columnist/ blogger..I always read her live chats. Last weeks live chat even had a mention of this board..
She had a nuclear fallout from something she wrote. Basically she said with Summer approaching if you have debt other then mortgage/car payments, you don't DESERVE a traveling big time getaway vacation. You might want it but you don't DESERVE it. She said people do deserve time away from work to recharge but stay home, go local, drive to visit family.
IOW if you book a vacay on your CC cards or have 100K in student debt you can't justify spending on a destination vacay. People went insane, called her every name in the book. To her credit she didn't back down and said I wouldn't be doing my job if I said anything different.