The phrase "a solo vacation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a vacation taken alone, emphasizing the individual nature of the trip.
Example: "After a stressful year at work, I decided to take a solo vacation to recharge and reflect."
Alternatives: "a solo trip" or "an individual vacation".
Ten years into the marriage, on returning from a solo vacation she felt a "tinge" of dread.
In the film "Summertime," Katharine Hepburn played such a woman, on a solo vacation in Venice, winking back tears while maintaining perfect posture and a rigid smile.
In THE NET (1995), directed by Irwin Winkler, she takes a solo vacation in Cozumel, meets a handsome Briton (Jeremy Northam) who's really after the disc in her purse and comes home to find her identity stolen.
That I read it while on a solo vacation upstate, reclining near the Hudson River and eating macaroni and cheese out of the same pot I prepared it in, merely amplified its truths.
So whatever you've been putting off: a solo vacation, telling someone how you feel, or pursuing your artistic dreams, life is too short not to go for it.
I figured a solo vacation to Iceland and the Blue Lagoon, in particular would serve as a barometer for my newfound powers of relaxation.
Educational Language immersion often makes for an affordable solo vacation (particularly in Latin America) and enables travelers to learn something new, while spending time with locals and other students.
Adapted from a novella by H.E. Bates, "A Month" takes the form of a memory piece, a reflection by a woman looking back on her first solo vacation on Lake Como and to her meeting with the man who would become her husband.
"It used to be basically your sun-and-sand holiday," said Diane Redfern, founder of Connecting: Solo Travel Network (www.cstn.org), who has been tracking solo vacation alternatives since 1990 through a bimonthly newsletter ($35 a year or $50 for life).
But while most of those threats don't go much further than some kid holing up in a treehouse for an afternoon, one genius 12-year-old in Australia took the concept of running away to a whole different level stealing his parents' credit card, hopping on his Razor scooter, and running away to Bali for a solo tropical vacation.
