To not be a 'holiday person'?

Can't really relate, I love getting away. I don't really get packing stress and I like to get to the airport super early and just sit with a pint. But its your money so spend it on what you want.

I find the more you travel the easier it is. It’s a habit. When I had a couple of years over Covid of not flying, I forgot everything. It’s like a muscle that needs to be flexed regularly and then it’s second mature. I visualise the days and nights and pack fairly lightly. Travel in your heaviest stuff obvs. Make the journey part of the fun.
Choose your flight times wisely. I hate waking at 3 am for example to get to the airport and would rather pay more to fly later. Choose what makes it work for you.

It's fine to be a homebird, whatever floats your boat. And you must save a fortune you can then invest in making your home even more lovely.

I can only imagine it must be quite lonely when you're in a foreign country.

Neah... I manage to keep busy doing activities I enjoy & people watching is fun. Do you feel lonely while in UK, since you live alone & just hang out alone at home so many hours? I literally feel trapped in my own home if I stay here too much. Routine = suffocating for me but fine if you feel routine = comforting. I can't find any enthusiasm for improving my house so I may as well spend money on travel which I am keen to do. Living alone drives me to do more travel than if I lived with others, btw. Organising holidays with children is huge Effort, that's a different category of travel.

The faff of packing or going to an airport, then the torturously long journey just to get somewhere, only to do the same thing a few days later when coming home.

Ok, you got me there, packing & planning & sleep deprivation are all total hassle!! But I get to know I went to Egypt or Africa or rural Spain or somesuch. Which is way cooooool...

Leaving a cod damp uk and stepping out of an airport in baking heat is a feeling that is hard to describe, like a weight lifted.

I use flight time to read, and can pack without too much stress.

But I don’t travel alone I have my H and teens, and we take loads of credit on cards just in case.

A long weekend in the UK is fine for us now. We have travelled a lot in years gone by, can’t be bothered now. I love getting away for a few days, but I love coming home!!!

I’m 58 and have travelled quite a bit. These days I can’t be bothered. We do have a campervan now and have booked a few short breaks but I’m pretty much done with airports. Life is too short for that hassle.

I absolutely love being at home and am a real homebody. I love just pottering. However if I ever get so insular - and dare I say boring and set in my ways! - that I no longer enjoy holidays, somebody shoot me! 😂

YABU to not enjoy holidays. But other prone line me are also not being intestinal to really love them! We are all different.

I think it’s fine to not be a holiday person it’s not like it affects me or anyone else. It’s only an issue if you get a home bod and a wanderer fall in love.

DH is the most travelled person I know and has been to at least 130 countries.
He did some very adventurous stuff when young like white water rapids in Canada, has a scar on his chin from that and canoeing down the Amazon. I didn’t travel like that when young, I was crashing motorbikes, climbing trees and jumping off cliffs in to the sea. We have both calmed down now. Not because we want go but at close to 60 if you break a bone it’s harder to heal.

We live near the Peak District as well @GoldfinchFeather and walked up Thorpe Cloud last week, we now have a Motorhome and hiked 7 miles a couple of days. So it’s adventures but more gentle ones. I would do anything to have my youthful energy back, gone are the days I could walk 20 miles and go scrambling up Winnats Pass.

I feel the same, OP, but it’s a relatively recent thing and probably age-related. Nowadays I really dislike all the faff and hassle of airports, and won’t consider any long haul flight - especially if a lot of jet lag will be involved.

I’d still do a transatlantic flight to see a DSis, but other than that, no thanks. Dh and I have done a great deal of far-flung travel in the past anyway.
Luckily dh (who still has itchy feet) is happy to go anywhere on his own.
OTOH I’ll quite happily make the 7 hour journey to a BiL’s place in France - by car! No sodding airports!
And yet when (much) younger I found just being in an airport so exciting!

Absolutely up to you what you do with your time and money! I wasn’t a holiday person in my early 30s while single either. I didn’t want to go away alone and to be honest there wasn’t anything I needed a holiday from!

Now with 3 kids and a high stress job I absolutely need a break where I don’t have to clean, tidy, cook or work- and that’s not going to happen staying at home!

I think it depends what type of holiday for me now. There are no beach/hotel package holidays I want to go on anymore because I’ve done them to death. If I could go without flying I’d go to Japan and South Korea like a shot. The only more short haul place I’d like to go is Iceland (and possibly Slovenia) but I just can’t see me putting any time or effort into actually organising them, especially as I have a dog in double digits. Apart from Japan and South Korea I feel I’ve done all the big places. I’ve been to the US several times, Australia, India, the Caribbean, Singapore, Europe, the Middle East. It’s not a big deal if I don’t go to Japan. I can’t even be arsed to make the three hour train trip to London anymore, I think I’ve got too lazy really.

I don’t think I can train it to Japan lol but train would be my preference for Europe if I travel there again. In my daydreams I’m so rich I can travel all over Europe on the Orient Express, sigh.

It's just taste. I love holidays, prioritise above other spending, and can't have enough of them. You don't. 🤷‍♂️

Oh god, I feel the same, though mainly because I find parenting small children outside of our routine and home so stressful. Throw in all the planning, packing and expense and it just becomes a nightmare. I'd much rather do a few days trips and just relax at home, but there's an expectation that we go away for at least a week in the summer and I've never been able to get out of it!

You can travel, including abroad, by coach and train.

You don't have to unpack at the holiday. I prefer to, but plenty of people just take things out of their suitcase when they need them and if you're staying different places different nights you may need to do that.

I’m the same as you OP. I don’t get the hype and feel like there’s something wrong with me.

I also hate packing and the stress of getting to the airport on time OP and I suppose most people do, but it's worth it for the middle part.

Not true. You could get a week/5 days abroad for 600. 200 for flight there and back including extra costs for bag if going with Ryan Air or similar. 70 a night for the hotel and the 50 from Nationwide (I presume!) to help with spending money.

People who don't like holidays alone can try a couple of weekend breaks instead or travel to visit friends who live elsewhere.

Life is too short to do stuff you don’t really enjoy because society says that’s what you should be doing 🤷‍♀️

Neither of your options are correct.

You don't need to be a boring sod to not want to use your windfall for a holiday. Do what will bring you most pleasure

I like a holiday but I don't spend proportionally as much as many of my friends on holidays. That's fine

It’s stressful for me because I hate flying so much. It’s gone from being philosophical about it when younger, to being petrified now. I’ve had a couple of particularly turbulent flights that have cemented by fears and I have also had internal panic attacks being stuck there because I can’t say stop I want to get off. I’ve had pills from the doctor but they have done nothing.

You are totally entitled to do as you wish. You could treat yourself to nice homely things... bubble bath, nice food, a film or new spring clothes. Or save it for when you fancy or need something.
I think people withconstant travel lust are unfulfilled and will never find contentment. Because there is beauty all around us . You don't have to go 100s miles to see it.. Just be you.