Bridging days 2019: plan cleverly, have more vacation

Because anticipation is the greatest joy, let's start planning next year's vacations and short breaks now. Because if you make the most of the bridging days in 2019, you can easily double your vacation. Here we reveal which public holidays you can use to your advantage.

via Sabrina

12/29/2018, 07:00

Wer die Brückentage 2019 richtig nutzt, kann seinen Urlaub fast verdoppeln — If you make the most of the bridging days, you can put your feet up in the hammock for longer.

Using public holidays for vacation planning and building bridging days around them is nothing new. But it's so tedious to pick out the best opportunities. That's why we've done it for you and put together a clear calendar of which bridging days you should definitely take off in 2019.

Make clever use of bridging days in 2019

There's more to 2019 than you might have thought: If you have around 28 days of vacation and schedule them cleverly, you can accumulate up to 58 days off. Because Easter is relatively late, the best opportunity comes at the end of April: combined with May 1st, eight days of vacation become a whopping 17 days off. However, if you want to use this time to get away, you should consider giving up a day and taking advantage of the week before Easter, when experience has shown that many vacation regions offer much better deals than during Easter week itself.

Whitsun and Christmas are convenient

The bridge days around Whitsun are ideal for an early summer vacation in 2019. And Christmas is also quite employee-friendly in the middle of the week. Despite the temptation to secure as many favorable combinations as possible - you should also be able to indulge and make arrangements with your colleagues (well in advance).