The campervan can stay in the garage for another week, at least.
Andy Friend and his wife Kerri's trip around Europe, before they set sail for Australia, will have to wait and the most pressing travel arrangements the Connacht boss has is getting "27 or 28" fit men to make the long trip to South Africa on Tuesday to take on defending URC champions the Stormers.
Three weeks ago, the Westerners signed off from the Sportsground with a comprehensive win over Cardiff that secured their play-off place and it was 'win or go home' on Friday night.
Arriving in Belfast as 10-point underdogs, Friend, who is at pains to point out the homework done by head coach Pete Wilkins and his assistants, came away with a memorable win, incredibly his third success away to Ulster after Connacht had gone 58 years without one.
No matter what happens in Cape Town on Saturday, the 54-year-old departs with Heineken Champions Cup qualification secured and the feeling of a job well done. Five years well spent.
"It'll get a fair workout come June but I'm really stoked to not have to be jumping in that early," says Friend of his Euro trip, which he hopes won’t begin until after the final on 27 May.
But back to Belfast. Ulster had never lost a knockout game at the Kingspan Stadium and this time last year, coasted past a desperate Munster effort to book a semi-final place.
Dan McFarland's side bid farewell to a host of players and had arranged an autograph and selfie session with the fans for after the game. They were supposed to win and earn a home semi-final.
Connacht didn’t read the script.
They operate with the smallest budget of all the Irish provinces and finished 18 points behind their opponents in the regular season.
No matter.
"We don’t zone in on that," says Friend of money matters before jesting "we do on occasion when it suits us, to zone in on that. We’re balanced, we’ve got a chip on both shoulders.
"I know when I first came here that was the talk, but what impressed me from the minute I met Willie [Ruane, Connacht CEO] and met the board, and then when I came in and met these blokes, they don’t use that as a crutch.
"I think sometimes we’ve used it too much as 'woe is us’ and when we lose and go down fighting, we’re OK with that.
"But I think that’s changed. I think they just see it as, ‘ah well, it is what it is and we’ve got to fight a little bit harder'.
"So there’s a real spirit with the group.
"I always say to people, come and look at our facilities, it doesn’t look super flash, it will do in a few years’ time with the new stadium and the centre of excellence, but that shouldn’t change what’s going on in the building.
"When you choose to look at what’s going on in the building, that’s when you see the character of this football team.
"So it’s not what it looks like, you’ve got a dog track around it and now we've got a 4G pitch, but when we get the new centre of excellence and the stand, maybe Connacht will keep that character.
"I think they will because you’ve got the blokes, the likes of Jack Carty (above, right), who come through and they know what it means to play for this province.
"I think the other really positive thing is, it’s important that we keep our homegrown because the province means something to them.
"You see it out there tonight [against Ulster], the likes of a Niall Murray, Dylan Tierney-Martin coming on, Denis Buckley, Jack Carty, Tiernan O’Halloran, there’s a chunk of them who are just homegrown guys and we’ve got a shed load of young blokes coming through. There’s a lot of good footballers who didn’t get selected tonight too and that’s the other really pleasing thing."
Out-half Carty, who kicked five from five in the 15-10 win that extended the season, sat beside Friend in the post-match press conference and stretched to check out the length of the room in order to make a point about how far the club has come since he came on the scene 11 years ago.
"When I started in Connacht there was, and I’m not making an exaggeration, this room was probably twice the size of what the gym was," says the 30-year-old Ireland international.
"We had to be split into groups of four but no-one ever complained. No-one ever gave out, it was what you had and you dealt with it.
"But in terms of Friendy’s point, the part around the budgets, you just have to be creative.
"You can’t afford to get it wrong and I think when you look at the likes of Shamus [Hurley-Langton], he’s an example of someone who there was a lot of time spent looking at him and you get a performance like tonight and what he’s been like over the last couple of weeks.
"We don’t have the luxury and you look at Ulster, they have an All Black tighthead [Jeffery Toomaga Allen], an Irish hooker [Rob Herring] and then they have a British & Irish Lions loosehead [Rory Sutherland] , a Springbok captain [Duane Vermeulen] and internationals all across the backline.
"We don’t have the luxury of that but what we do have is we’ve an incredible amount of skilful players and in terms of our detail and how we want to play the game I think that’s what sets us apart maybe from other teams.
"That’s why there’s such an immense pride from the fellas who’ve come through because there’s an awareness of where we come from, what we have, but we obviously never use it as crutches, as Friendy said."
The visitors, who famously won the tournament in 2016, should have won by more, and perhaps would have if they had played it a bit cooler when in the danger zone.
But Connacht play by, live by, and die by the sword.
They’re unlikely to change now, even if Friend hints that calmer heads prevailing on the pitch would make life as an onlooker a lot easier.
"Listen, no doubt there was but I can tell you, the blokes would have been saying the exact same thing out there," he says.
"That’s the beauty of it. I reckon as coaches if you can make yourself redundant then you’re doing a pretty good job.
"We’re redundant on game day, we never send out messages in terms of what to do unless they ask us. Pete’s really good at half-time, coming in and saying ‘this is what’s working, this is what’s not working’ and reminding the blokes of why we’re in the position like we were tonight at 12-3.
"We’re in that position for these reasons, we’ve done this, this and this.
"The only think that’s hurting us in these moments is our forcing things so ‘Chill, trust yourselves, you’ll be OK’. And they did that at the start of the second half.
"So, yes I was, probably like every Connacht supporter, but I know it’s the exact same as these blokes are feeling. They don’t need us to tell them if they’re not doing well."
Connacht stayed in Belfast on Friday night and depart for the southern hemisphere on Tuesday, arriving on Wednesday, the provisional flight bookings were being worked on as soon as Andrew Brace blew the final whistle.
"He earns his coin," says Friend of the club’s travel agent as Connacht head into a storm they are more than capable of weathering.
