I don't like going on holiday. Anyone else?

I too have a bowel condition and dread being away from home. Even a day out can be difficult. The stress of packing all the extra stuff that I need and the worry about possible accidents. One year I ran out of pads and had to buy an unfamiliar brand and ended up with a pressure sore on my backside. Never travel with less than 3 pairs of pj's and masses of undies. Unfamiliar food can be a disaster of course and the constant stress of finding a public toilet, a lot of which are ghastly. It all just completely takes the shine off. I try to mitigate the food worry a bit by self catering and taking several meals that I've cooked and frozen in advance, I try to choose things that are a bit more special to meet family halfway with eating out. We also like a ploughman's night, lots of crusty bread, cheese, pate and salad type stuff, then I can choose safe foods. I still always end up thinking that it just wasn't worth it and am glad to be home.

No. Not awful. But I don't have Greek ruins or the Louvre or Angkor Wat in my backyard. Or cathedrals and castles.

I do think staying at home is more climate friendly, which is why this summer have only done UK breaks.

Anyone else just not get the fuss about holidays?

The thing I don't get is people who live their lives to be on holiday. They're desperate to get away. Desperate to get away from home, work, everyday life

Their everyday lives must be awful if they constantly need to dream/plan/live for being somewhere else

I'm not bothered about going away. I will and I do, but I'm not bothered

That might be because I love my life exactly as it is, day to day

Or it might be for some other reason?

Why do so many people say packing is a chore? Genuine question.

I'm not at all interested holidays. I've travelled widely in the past, although travelling and going on holiday aren't the same thing, but now I just can't be arsed. I used to find it all exhausting when the DC were small as every damn thing was left to me to sort out.

The thought of airports and planes makes my heart sink, ditto packing. I now content myself with a few days here and there in the UK and prefer spending money on my garden. But I'm single, so nobody else to think about now.

I've never slept well in a hotel bed, BnB bed, Airbnb bed, guest house bed, caravan, tent etc

I barely sleep great in my own bed.

If I could take my bed to new places, I might enjoy being away.

You can stay in the UK but still feel like you are abroad - Scottish islands for example.

I get you, especially re your health.
It's just me and my husband, and the older
I get, the more it's "What's the actual point?" 😂

I'm on holiday now and while I'm enjoying it and not where you are, I'm 4 days in and ready to go home now! Where I'm staying is beautiful but it's hot and I'm struggling to sleep. I've got numerous intolerances/ plus vegetarian and struggling to find things to eat. I'm also struggling being with DP all day. We don't live together and being together 24/7 feels a lot! I'm quite looking forward to being back in the UK where it's cool and I can be in my own space.

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Love holidays but not UK ones - hate spending a fortune to be down the road, in rubbish weather!

I don’t want to pay good money to stay somewhere that’s less comfortable than my home. Unfortunately, most hotels, apartments and cottages are just that.

We went to a supposedly upmarket hotel for a long weekend to celebrate a big anniversary. The food was fine, but everything was an extra, the room was shabby and the lounge area was too.

A ‘luxury’ five star apartment had mould round the shower, which was broken at the bottom. The pillows had a musty smell and if the bedding had been changed, it certainly hadn’t been ironed. There were so many things wrong with it and we eventually had a partial refund and it was removed from the listings.

I’d rather go for days out and sleep in my own bed.

I like going away and having a change of scenery, short breaks, longer holidays, in the UK and abroad. The only thing I detest is packing, unpacking (more so when a longer holiday) and airports - cannot stand the faffing and waiting about at airports I also don’t really like flying that much, when it’s long haul.

I do need variety though so I couldn’t do two weeks in a resort that I didn’t of couldn’t leave, or round the pool, I would get bored quite quickly. I like to travel about if it’s more than a few days!

I have never, and will never, take a lounging in the sun holiday. I hate the heat and would be bored after an hour. If I'm going to lie around reading a book I'd rather do it in my garden or, if the weathers bad, lying on my bed, for free! For that reason, every holiday I take involves a lot of walking.

I am finding now that I am reaching a point where it does feel like a huge amount of effort. If I'm flying then the travel either side of it exhausts me. Lugging suitcases around, walking miles in massive airports, squashed into tiny seats on the plane, passport control queues (especially now we've left the EU). Then the energy required for being up, out and doing stuff every day. I'm starting to see why cruises are so popular with retirees, although that doesn't really appeal either.

I've done the odd overnight/weekend trip over the last couple of years and I do have a big trip planned early next year. But holidays are definitely losing their shine for me. Luckily I have been to the places I desperately wanted to go, so anything else would be a bonus. I can't see me doing "big" holidays for much longer.

I've found that taking my own pillowcase and my own duvet cover (no duvet, just the cover) or a blanket I often use makes the world of difference for unfamiliar beds.

I don’t like going on holiday either but we have always had a caravan or campervan so I can cope with that. sometimes my husband and son go off somewhere without me and my son does a sport which allows for travelling abroad a couple of times a year with teammates and coaches. He’s growing up completely differently to me. We had a small farm growing up and never took holidays. School trip to France was a one off!

Not wanting to be away from home for valid medical or other practical reasons is fine. That’s a bit different to “not getting the fuss” over holidays. It‘s not rocket science why people like holidays. I would suggest you be careful about not projecting your own issues
onto those around you or you run the risk of resentment from dh/dc.

This. Haven't done a sun lounger holiday since my 20s.

I'm generally unsettled for the first day and sometimes two. But to be honest once I've got there, had a meal and a drink, I'm OK.

I've only once come back early from holiday and that was when we shouldn't have gone, my husband was really stressed with work and it became apparent about 3 days into a 10 day holiday that he was having a full on nervous breakdown. We came home and I've never been more relieved to get back home.

I actually said to someone yesterday that holidays are overrated!

I do have a nice time, but the orgainsing, packing etc is stressful to me and while I do enjoy our holidays I don't enjoy them THAT much and I am always glad to come home again. A week is plenty for me, I never think about going for a fortnight!

Yes those whose partners don't enjoy hols, go without them! Also as a 52 year old I don't understand 40 yr olds saying they are too old to enjoy holidays! Eh? Just say you don't like hols. 40 is not old.

I live for my holidays. If dh wasn’t on the same page (and he’s not about some of my ideas) I just go without him. I wouldn’t miss out because it wasn’t something he wanted to do.
If you don’t enjoy them then you don’t enjoy them, it’s not unreasonable to prefer one thing over another.
We have a lovely house and garden now and while it’s nice to be able to spend time enjoying our hard work I would also feel stifled if I didn’t spend time away from it. I wfh most of the time so it’s also my job to be here in my home office.
I massively appreciate the change of scenery and a blue sky.

Personally an air b&b in uk wouldn't be a holiday.. but that's just because I wouldn't want to stay in someone else's home when i'd rather be in my own! I'd probably prefer to do day trips.

I can imagine if you are ill and need a clean toilet, it must be tough. So YANBU in that way.

Personally I love holidays/ trips and quite often I go solo, though DH also likes travel, thank goodness. Even better now DC are grown. We don't do sun breaks though. We are naturally tanned. Mostly culture, ruins, food, nature.

I hate pottering at home. The organising of breaks can be tedious but I don't feel anxious or anything.