I think I lucked into HTC's suggestion #2, plan time apart.
I've done very few "vacations" with SBs. Maybe five in all, and all were two nights. I might be a stretch to call them vacations.
Each time, without planning time apart to keep her happy, it just worked out that way. Each time, I have had work and/or meetings which require me to focus on something other than her during some chunk of the day. So I've made sure she knew when I'd leave and when I'd return, and I gave her some "walkin' around money" to make sure she could have a good time however she defined it. Most of the time she would do something with her time that I wouldn't want to do anyway, so win-win.
(Examples: Touring some feminist blah blah museum, shopping for essentials in Manila including refilling her birth control, wandering around some mall and meeting with long distance friends for fancy tea or something. I sent one girl on a tour of DC monuments that I would have enjoyed doing with her, but she enjoyed it without me.)
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I've kind of assumed that a young SB finds it kind of hot that her man has "important things to do" while she's gallivanting around on his nickel with a promise of a hot date that night. But it has to be the right kind of girl. Some girls want all your attention, all the time.
Giving her some space has been a practical necessity for me, but I think it works in my favor. She gets a break from me, gets to do fun (to her) stuff, gets to imagine her man doing important, manly things, and gets to anticipate a hot date at night and any heroic story I care to tell her about my day.
Rockford