It has long since been believed by many that spending time on the beach of any large body of water and providing the the outside temperatures are warm enough to get into that water that this is the MOST RELAXING time that anyone can have... and, while I suppose that this is true... it is not as easy to get there... at least by many of us who want to go... because we simply do not have the excess money to spend on a trip like this....
Many of go to public swimming pools in the warm summer months and many of us travel to nearby recreational lakes where there is camping, cooking, fishing, swimming, and hiking... and, there are still many of us that travel a little farther to public beaches all along the coastlines of our country... but none of those are really anything like what it might be like to travel to Hawaii... although, it is possible if you are living on our eastern side to get to the Caribbean fairly easily or even past our Gulf Coast down to Cancun.
But, if you want to travel to destinations in Europe, along the Mediterranean, or to Indonesia, Asia, India, China, Japan, or Australia... you will either need to save your money for a while... borrow the money using a credit card to pay off at a later date... or be one of those fortunate ones THAT ARE WEALTHY...