The drawback to tile is that it can be hard on the joints over time, and there's grout to clean and seal. The drawback to vinyl is its vinyl. I have the wood look tile under my fridge and I will install it under the sink and dw as well. In my opinion it is beautiful enough to put throughout the kitchen.

I have both tile floors and vinyl floor areas in my home. Tile wins! The tile is easy to clean and l still looks new after 20 years. No grout issues since we used a grayish brown grout (the tile is taupe). Never sealed it. We recently priced out some wood look tile plank for the family room. It is pricey,could almost do a wood floor for the same and after the prep work it may well end up costing more than hardwood. But I love the ease of upkeep with tile, we're putting in radiant floor heating and we like having big dogs. That makes tile much more practical than wood for us and I detest cleaning vinyl. We don't have issues with walking/standing on tile because we wear shoes. I wear flipflops in the summer and rubber soled slippers in the winter so my feet are cushioned.

This is going to go against all the "expert" advice on keeping tile floors clean. Don't fuss about it. Choose a neutral grout and use nothing but a damp mop of warm water. You don't need special cleaners, steamers etc. In fact more grout is damaged by over zealous cleaning than anything else in my opinion.We'll be doing a white floor in our hall bath most likely. I plan to use a nice medium silvery gray grout.

We put in wood-look tile when we renovated due to a water leak... It damaged our hardwood floors, and I didn't want to go through that again. I'm very happy with them.

Tiles remain durable for quite a long period of time as opposed to vinyl, so I suggest that you use tiles.

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I know everyone likes what they got, but I'm hearing the vinyl floor planks are really durable and not terribly fussy as far as cleaning. People with dogs are exclaiming over them.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Other considerations are your floor construction and available height dimensions. Installing tile requires a stiffer subfloor than vinyl. If you're on a slab, no problem. But if you have a framed wood subfloor, you should check it's stiffness before installing tile. My house has 24" on center wood floor framing instead of 16", and the floors are bouncy. The flexing of the floor with tile installed on floors like this can crack the grout. But stiffening the floor (with additional layer of plywood) adds significant thickness. Once you add any additional plywood, backer board plus tile, it can be an inch or more. You need to factor this in with your cabinet and counter height to make sure the dishwasher, range and refrigerator will fit OK. Vinyl can be much thinner, but depending on the condition of your subfloor, may also need an underlayment layer because subfloor imperfections will show through vinyl.

I've got slab, so I should be okay.

Then, there is the flatness of the slab. That is VITALLY important. The prep to get it to be no more than 1/8" variance over 10' is a step that a lot of people skip, and then wonder why they get lippage with the large format tile. You need to grind the high spots and fill the low spots with SLC. There are a lot of wrong ways to do large format. If you're on this forum long enough, you'll have seen them all. Use that to your advantage to make sure that you know the right way.

I have an experienced contractor, so I trust they'll handle that.