Ok, so lockdown 2021 was probably not the best time for me to read this as so many beautiful vacations were detailed and we couldn't leave our house but my travel bucket list is definitely longer now than it was before the read. This is the first book I've read by Emily Henry and I will definitely be keeping an eye out for other books because I loved it. Poppy and Alex are the most likeable, albeit occasionally frustrating, characters and I was instantly in their corner cheering for them to get together. The way the author flipped from the present to their previous summer trips worked really well, and I honestly felt like I was there for a lot of them. I felt like their emotions and the way they stupidly handled their relationship was realistic and it wasn't a simple, boy meets girl end, it was complex like all human relationships are and made the characters believable and more likeable. Would 100% recommend, and will be reading more of Emily's books.

I fell in love with Alex and Poppy. I loved the backstory, how they met and how their friendship grew. I knew from the first chapter when they were pretending to have just met at the bar it was going to be a fun read, and it was. The things Alex said had me giggling. The two are total opposites. There is a serious side, it does get a bit sad in parts. One minute I was laughing the next I was wanting to cry. It was the perfect book to escape from what is going off around us. I loved it

I started off not too keen on this one. I thought the character Poppy was a bit of a privelaged brat and so I took a long time reading the first few chapters. BUT... then I changed my mind completely and I absolutely fell in love with Poppy and Alex. They are just the cutest! I adored their friendship, every aspect - how they met, how they grew closer, the build up of tension, and I was just in it for the whole ride.

It's predictable, and there are some frustrating bits towards the end, but it is a rom com, so really, what else would you expect? I enjoyed Emily Henry's other novel Beach Read, but I enjoyed this one even more. The banter and little in jokes between them was just lovely. Honestly, hetero women are going to LOVE Alex.

Oh I also LOVED the travel stories - especially at the moment when none of us can go anywhere - it was nice to do a little vicarious travelling.

A perfect holiday read.

This book was the perfect antidote to the current state of the world. I would have read it in one sitting, but annoyingly I had to sleep and go to work. Emily Henry has created a vivid world with Alex and Poppy, and I wanted to inhabit it with them for so much longer. With chapters that alternate between the past and the present day, there was so much to love about this book. Reading it felt like putting on my most comfy sweater, and frankly anything that can make me forget about the state of the world right now deserves 5 stars.

This is exactly the type of book I love to read and recommend. It's the type of book that I will get completely invested. As I read further into 'You and Me on Vacation', the more I fell in love with Poppy and Alex. Both of them are such well-written characters. The definition of opposites attract, I would like to say. The book made me experience a whole spectrum of emotions, from laughter to sadness and sympathy for the characters, and that was something I was not expecting going into this. I'm definitely going to be reading this book again and again so that I relive the romance and the cute relationship between Poppy and Alex.

Easy reading, light and lovely story. Just what the doctor ordered to take one's mind off the pandemic!

I really enjoyed Emily Henry's last book 'Beach Read' so was really excited to see this one become available! It didn't disappoint, it was a very similar style and the characters were so believable. Just fantastic, I would recommend to anyone!

This is a long drawn out friends to lovers rom-com from Emily Henry featuring Poppy and Alex, both from the small town of Linfield in Ohio, who meet for the first time at the University of Chicago, initially not taking to each other at all. Poppy and Alex are polar opposites when it comes to personalities, with Poppy the outgoing extrovert and Alex, the more reserved introvert. The two find themselves becoming friends despite their different backgrounds, a friendship cemented each year with their annual vacation together to a variety of locations, only to find their feelings for each other changing, but is it worth the risk to their friendship? In a emotional roller coaster of a story that goes back and forth in time, the pair have not communicated for two years when something obviously big happened between them, Poppy and Alex go on one last vacation, will they finally come together? This was an engaging read told from Poppy's perspective, although occasionally uneven, the conversations between Poppy and Alex being a particular highlight, and one which I can see appealing to many readers. Many thanks to Penguin UK for an ARC.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC. This is my first read by this author and I really enjoyed it.
The story alternates between the past summers over the last ten years and the current summer. It’s insinuated at the start that something happened two summers ago and there is a suspense building up through the story to find out what that is!
I love a friendship to lovers story and Alex & Poppy are so cute together!
A great book to get you in the mood for a summer vacation.

I really enjoyed Beach Read, but You and Me on Vacation was even better and was the cause of far too many late nights this week. I rooted for Poppy from the start and thought she was the most brilliant heroine, and the wonderful Alex was her perfect counterpoint. If anything I identify with Alex more than Poppy, but I loved her enthusiasm for exploration and travel - I would love to be like that a little more.

As someone who fell in love with a friend, I thought the narrative walked that balance of 'what if' and not wanting to say or do anything that can't be undone so well. Many years later we're still together and I like to think there's a happy ever after for Poppy and Alex too. I loved this book!

I’m definitely getting more into books like this as I enjoyed it. It made me think of beach read and I definitely feel like I’ll easily be ready for any books that Emily Henry puts out in the future. Some errors did make it a little difficult to read but I still enjoyed the book regardless and I would read again once it’s officially out!

You and Me on Vacation also known as When Harry Met Sally and they went on Vacation, I got this very quickly and imagine my smugness when the author’s note at the end ‘fesses up to exactly that and now all the marketing is centred around it. Smug, smug, smug. Although it’s pretty blatant so I’m not calling myself a genius. Anyway it’s not a bad thing When Harry Met Sally is probably my least favourite Ephron but even my least favourite Ephron is better than most other things, so any novel that bears a passing resemblance is worth a gander.
It’s pretty clear from the beginning that Poppy is absolutely bats about Alex but in that massive river they call denial. As a wise man once said men and women can’t be friends, sex always gets in the way. Poppy and Alex meet in college And over the course of a series of shoestring vacays they build a mega friendship but ‘oh wait’ they both fancy each other rotten and are too damaged to risk it. It takes them ten years, a slight falling out over not very much and a good therapist to sort out all their shit and get over themselves.
It’s not Ephron but it makes a good stab at it. The examination of Poppy’s feelings of Alex are so minute and intense at times it feels super clostraphobic. It’s slightly exhausting and if Poppy weren’t such good company it would be a little tiresome. Alex doesn’t get quite the same attention. He just gets tarred with the repressed white guy brush and goes to therapy. Done.
This is a very sweet story and a good read and everyone gets a good therapist to help them reach self actualisation what more could anyone want.

A completely gorgeous read for when you need a bit of a hug in book form. This book will make you laugh but is also heartwarming in the best way.
This story is character driven and since we see the characters over the course of 12 years, we really come to know and love them. Many of the supporting characters are fabulous too and I adored Poppy's family who reminded me in many ways of my own. There are many will they, won't they moments and at times, you will want to scream at Poppy and Alex but only because you love them!

Have to add, in theses strange times - boy, did this make me yearn for a holiday!!

I really really enjoyed this book. I did love that we got to see Poppy and Alex through the years, as the chapters did go show you holidays from past and present. . It was a lovely easy read and a really good Rom com. Emily Henry just made this book light and fun. Although it was a tear jerker. I’m excited to read beach read if it’s as good as this!!
I marked it down a star as it took me a while to get used to the jumping chapters but loved it overall and would 100% recommend!

I'm sad about this! I was so looking forward to it as I loved Beach Read so much. Unfortunately I didn't find it anywhere near as good. The chapters jumped around a lot, back and forth from present day to past holidays. It was quite jarring and whenever I started to get into present day chapters I would be dragged back out again to a past holiday which didn't always seem to add all that much to the relationship or plot. I also didn't find their relationship particularly convincing and the reason they had stopped talking two years ago was very underwhelming, especially given that it was teased for such a large part of the book. Towards the end of the book it got rather heavy handed and over emotional, with them explaining how they felt to one another and why and I wasn't keen on the quick wrapping up of the epilogue. I'd rather have had that integrated into the book and had far less of the holiday flashbacks so it wasn't so choppy. Also, I don't know what was up with the weird egg cracking analogies, very odd and off-putting. I will pick up her future books still, in the hope of another like Beach Read!

Due for release in May 2021, I was thrilled to be invited by the publishers to read this prior to publication.
Without giving too much away, this is a book where everything seems as if it should go horribly horribly wrong but it works so well.
Our main characters are Poppy and Alex, two very different people, whose first meeting seems as if it will quickly become the kind of meeting that you talk about in years to come with a sense of having escaped something. They are unlike each other in so many ways, and everything one likes the other dislikes. They have little in common - their only shared ground discovered in their first meeting is that they both have an irrational hatred of anyone who calls boats ‘she’. Yet that first meeting sets in place a relationship like no other.
Poppy and Alex spend years on the outskirts of each other’s lives. A remnant of their college years, they spend time each summer on a vacation. Their only stipulation that it should give them the chance to experience something new.
Over the years they’ve had some memorable trips...and we get to catch up with a few of them, learning as we go just what a place these two have for each other.
Alongside learning about their past, we see them in their present. Poppy writing for a travel magazine and based in New York; Alex teaching at his former high school, in the town Poppy couldn’t wait to escape. Still very different, but with a history whose reach is hard to ignore.
It didn’t surprise me to see what happened by the end. That always seemed likely, but it was great to see how they got to this point in their lives.

This was an amazing read - brilliant characters, easy to slip into and difficult to put down. I tore through it in less than a day and I’m definitely going to have a book hangover.

Full of the feels.

Highly recommended.

If you liked "Where Rainbows End" (also known as "Love Rosie") by Cecelia Ahern or "Five Years From Now" by Paige Toon, I'm fairly certain you will love this book.
I love books that explore friendships that are so unique that no one outside of that friendship truly understands it and this book (like the 2 others I mentioned) explores a brilliant friendship between Alex and Poppy.
It takes you on a journey of 12 years, 12 summers, 12 adventures during that time Alex and Poppy explore their amazing friendship and just what "home" means to each of them.

I really enjoyed this book and finished it quite quickly.

One thing I loved at the end of this book was a section called "Behind the Book" which I've never seen in a book before. Emily Henry explains the inspiration behind the book and what she wants you to get out of it, aside from a fantastic story that is. Maybe more authors should do this!

You and me on vacation has been compared to When Harry Met Sally and I guess that's a fair comment. The story first starts 12 years prior, when Alex and Poppy first meet. A year later they become best friends and we follow their journey over the years. The story falls forwards and backwards in time to piece together the tale of these two people and how their friendship evoves.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 Stars ⭐️

I read and loved Beach Read by this author last year and so I was thrilled to read this book early and I really enjoyed this one as well. Me and You on Vacation follows best friends Poppy and Alex who are complete opposites and yet have great chemistry and are always there for one another. They start going on vacations together, having the best time, until something happens on one of their trips that leaves them on no speaking terms for two years. Poppy misses Alex and wants to reconnect and somehow they end up on another vacation before Alex’s brothers wedding. We switch between two different timelines - present day and back when Alex and Poppy first meet and start going on trips together.

This is your classic friends to lovers trope and I want to say that Alex and Poppy alone are a full five stars. Their connection felt real and believable and their relationship is so complicated but I was rooting for them both the entire time. I feel like they are characters and a couple that I won’t forget anytime soon.

The reason I didn’t give this book a full five stars was because of tue dual timelines. Whilst I think this was absolutely necessary to really get to know these characters and their history, one minute I am reading a scene from the present and I was never quite ready to switch back to the past scene and then I would get invested in that scene and then we would switch again. Overall I loved this book and would highly recommend.