Why spend the money to go on vacation at all? From Fox News,

"Persey Tours, a travel agency in Moscow, was having trouble staying afloat until it started selling fake vacations last year, the L.A. Times reports.Fake vacations?!! You bet your lying eye. For a paltry $500, you can have all your buddies believing you spent the last week walking along the Great Wall of China, or fishing off a hut in Bora Bora, or even chilling surfside at a resort in Dubai — whatever floats your baloney-laden boat, according to the Times."

Why did I spend so much money to really go to Australia and New Zealand?