Best days to book in 2025

As Scary Season approaches, the biggest scare of the day is the fact that it’s almost 2025. How terrifying. Do you know what you need to ignore the unstoppable passage of time? A cheeky holiday using the annual leave hack.

Everyone always wants a vacation. However, since some demon saw all the beauty of the natural world and decided to invent a five-day work week, taking a vacation is not something that can be done Down.

Instead, we are forced to go through the process of booking annual leave with our line managers and choose exactly which dates are best to start our leave.

But if you’re a crafty bastard like me, you know that you don’t have to play by the rules that everyone else does. 2025 is approaching and it’s time to take bold annual leave, including as many public holidays as possible to maximize your leave.

So before you get bored and take a whole week off next year, here are some public holiday dates you should pay attention to so that you can get as much as 10 days off by using only three days of your holiday.

The best hacks for annual leave 2025

There will be several bank holidays in Australia next year where everyone can use the following annual leave hacks to get as many days off as possible. Here are the seven we will discuss:

• Invasion Day – Monday, January 27, 2025
• Good Friday – Friday, April 18, 2025
• Easter Monday – Monday, April 21, 2025
• Anzac Day – Friday 25 April 2025
• Christmas – Thursday, December 25, 2025
• Boxing Day – Friday, December 26, 2025
• New Year’s Eve – Wednesday, December 31, 2025

And with that cleared up, let’s move on to the shortcomings of crack.

Invasion Day

It’s the busiest cultural day in Australia’s calendar, but January 27 is still a public holiday. So if you’re booking a trip and want to spice it up with an extra day off while saving up your limited annual leave, why not make good use of your days off around Invasion Day.

Using this annual leave hack could result in nine days of absence from the office, as well as the possibility of traveling to a place that doesn’t celebrate the day it was colonized.

Excluded dates: Saturday, January 25 – Sunday, February 2 (nine days).

Book your annual leave for: Tuesday 28 – Friday 31 January (four days).

Good Friday, Easter Monday and Anzac Day

This one is great because by using only three days of leave, three holidays and two weekends, you can have one big holiday for the entire 10 days. Just as Jesus and ANZAC intended.

Excluded dates: Friday, April 18 – Sunday, April 27 (10 days).

Book your annual leave for: Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 April (three days).

Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day

Once again, huge thanks to our Lord and Savior, capitalism, for this one. In the true spirit of Christmas, the best thing you can do is to use this highly spiritual/consumeristic time to splurge on some big holiday and treat yourself before the end of the year and into 2026.

Excluded dates: Saturday, December 20 – Sunday, January 4 (16 days)

Book your annual leave for: December 22, 23, 24, 29 and 30. January 2, 2026 (six days).

So what are you waiting for? Send this message to the person overseeing your time off requests from work and start fantasizing about when you’ll be able to set your email to an “Out of Office” automatic reply. Thank you, annual holiday tricks.

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