Top 10 College Spring Break Destinations For 2012

This year's Spring Break "Top 10" list starts and ends with, oh-so-appropriately, MTV. College students may remember MTV's The Real World: Cancun, a pre-Jersey Shore preserve of vodka-infused excessive partying and generally questionable behavior. According to the Los Angeles Times, which recently published a list of STA Travel's most-booked destinations for 2012, Cancun once again reigns supreme.

At the tail end of the Top 10 list is Las Vegas, which happens to be this year's destination for "MTV Spring Break." The MTV special takes place from March 20 to 22 of this year but THANKFULLY will be available for your tasteful viewing pleasure as a mini-series online, in case you can't make the trip to Sin City.

Check out our slideshow to see the eight other destinations that will be partying hard this March.

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[bluejoni2525]

03:30 PM on 03/07/2012

My Spring break days are over but I sure took advantage of them when I was in college !! One year I went to the music festival, Mar y Sol in Puerto Rico in 1972, lots of great bands !! I'm from NJ and the package deal cost me $149 that included airfare and concert tickets !! Those where the days !

[LordPolonius]

07:41 PM on 03/06/2012

Forgetting a very important destination: home

[Eunece]

07:36 PM on 03/06/2012

The Bahamas is the place to go, no kidnapping, no worries, friendly people, most beautiful beaches in the world, yeah, choose, Nassau, Grand Bahama(sail from West Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale on daily cruise service), Abaco, Exuma, it will be the best experience of a lifetime

[Jean Chilvers]

06:49 PM on 03/06/2012

Mexico visitors...please do this if you come to our beaches.

Consider what you would tell a visitor to your town not to do and then please do it here.

This will guarantee you a good vacation.

Don't drink in areas you are unfamiliar with.

Don't go out walking alone in areas outside the tourist zones.

Never under any circumstances participate in an argument or fight.

Do NOT flirt with Mexican women...no matter how tempting...it's viewed very poorly by Mexican men.

[Chad McVeigh]

06:33 PM on 03/06/2012

I went to Cancun on Spring Break two years in a row in the early 00's and it was some of the most fun I've ever had. I also went to Panama City Beach for a Senior Trip and had a blast there, too. "Like the song says: enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

[gclum]

06:03 PM on 03/06/2012

Stay away from Mexico unless you would like to be kidnapped or killed.

[LiLValley]

06:11 PM on 03/06/2012

And stay away from US universities, unless you would like to be shot at by a bullied kid....

[Jean Chilvers]

06:50 PM on 03/06/2012

Sounds like you would be one of those ones who doesn't know how to vacation in Mexico.

[Jerry Bourbon]

11:36 AM on 03/09/2012

Just sounds like a wimp. What a drag to be him.

[Sonja Bruce]

05:59 PM on 03/06/2012

For those of us who are not of college age or don't have kids that go on Spring Break....these are the places to AVOID this time of year! HA!

[Cantinflas]

05:39 PM on 03/06/2012

No ski resorts?

[heymack]

05:15 PM on 03/06/2012

So how does one pay for all these Spring Breaks?

[Bogey907]

05:18 PM on 03/06/2012

I never figured that out either.

[Phoebe917]

05:27 PM on 03/06/2012

back in the day, "spring break" meant i could work fulltime at my part time job. if i would have asked my parents to fund a trip like this they would have laughed in my face.

[heymack]

05:42 PM on 03/06/2012

Exactly.  The two trips I took to Lauderdale ... yea,m back in the day we partied at the Button in Ft. Lauderdale and those of you that are my age will chuckle when you read that name ... I worked part time jobs while in school to save up the money.  My dad would have laughed his butt off if I asked him for that then he would have cut me off completely....making me pay for all of my school (parents did pay for half of my school so I wasn't going to bight the hand that fed me).

[snickerdoodlecupcake]

04:08 PM on 03/06/2012

Good to see Nassau, Bahamas on the list. That's where I'm headed, although my friends and I are just going for a relaxing break, we're not into the MTV 'Spring Break' type antics!

[grod805]

01:14 PM on 03/06/2012

Do college students actually go to these places? I've been in college for four years and I really only knew like three people who went on a Spring Break trips to locations like these.

[krw09c]

08:27 PM on 03/18/2012

yes at least the college kids in Florida do. I just went to PCB this past spring break and surprisingly their were students from Kentucky, Detroit and a lot from Michigan. It's best to come in big groups you can sometimes catch deals that way.

A lot of students at my school are Haitian or Jamaican so they visit there or other Caribbean island during spring break. It's not that expensive to the person who asked how we pay for it.

[krw09c]

08:28 PM on 03/18/2012

sorry for the typos