Holiday anxiety - anyone else?

I don't worry much about travel either. Not worth it. Muddle along.

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I don't know really, I think it's a combination of luckily having a great secure upbringing and just an innate not giving a fuck about anything much.

Basically don't worry about things you can't change and if you are upset about something then do something about it is my philosophy- if you can't do anything about it then fuck it 😃

Cor...what's that like not worrying about stuff? Why is that lol?
Is it you just innately know things will work out, how you've been brought up, self resilience, drugs (joking)....
How does it feel living in a world where the default is seemingly stress and anxiety?

I am not looking forward to my upcoming holiday. It's just a hassle schlepping the kids across Europe, packing, check in, security, flight, care hire wait, getting into our place, unpack. I find I enjoy holidays in Retrospect and like having the experiences.

Paris will be fab. What are you doing there @maldivemoment ?

Every year! I have to get diazepam from doctors for the week. Holidays with kids are so stressful and tiring, you have to watch them like a hawk and they moan about sight seeing, heat, food etc.
We tend to go with extended family so we take turns supervising. Last year we booked a huge villa with a games room, gym, play area, private pool, maid service. Hardly left the complex and plenty of grandparents and aunties to help.

Just to Conwy harbour which is a two hour drive fro us. I’m nervous!

I do, but in my case it’s generally linked to packing for my diabetes. Do I have enough spares? Have I packed right in terms of what can and can’t go through scanners? Do I have enough hypo treatments for the journey? Will I get a dickhead on security again arguing about my pump going through the body scanner etc - once I’m through security I’m generally fine and worry less about the journey back.

No, they have not incorporated debit card access on the Metro yet. Unless things have changed. We go every year and have never been able to use our debit cards.

If people are coming by Eurostar, I always recommend buying the Navigo travel passes on the train. They sell them in the café. They are more expensive than buying when you arrive. However, the machines and kiosks at the Gare du Nord can be absolutely rammed when you arrive. The cards you buy on the train are already loaded with two journeys each. This helps to get to your hotel, and then you can just charge up the card at the machines in the Metro stations as needed.

OP Even if you do a fraction of the worrying and prep, it will still be fine! As long as you have a ticket you will get there, even if there are delays. Try and take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
And remember, there are plenty of relaxed, laid-back, or disorganised people. They still get there on holiday! Don’t waste this time by worrying. Think of all the fun aspects!

I don't but then I'm basically incapable of worrying about anything ever, even if I should do.

Think about where you want to go, make a list of stuff to take, and breathe op. Get some anti anxiety pills or something if you need them

I’m away next week too. Booked a couple of weeks ago. I’m excited but always have a low level of anxiety mainly around the weather and clothes haha. Less so now the kids are grown up and we know we are easily pleased. I dislike the travelling day but once we arrive, we find somewhere to have a drink and all is well. I love Paris, have a fab time.

Yes, every holiday! However mine isn't things going wrong it's anxiety of the mental load as I'm the one who organises everything whilst partner just has to pack his clothes.
However, last holiday he said he wanted to organise it all. It was brilliant as I had a particularly stressful time in work in the run up but I didn't have to think about any of the factors to do with the holiday at all!

Wow people can be unkind

yes, and my husband way more so.

I make an itinerary and a list and that helps me picture it positively.
couple of organisational things too like having electronic copies of documents and keeping things like passports in one place

Yes, I get hugely anxious and don't sleep the night before. I'm going away with family tomorrow who I've never been away with before, and my little dc, and I am fretting like hell! List was drawn up 5 weeks ago. I always forget something and I usually don't sleep on the first night of the holiday either.
If I go away with my dh I'm a lot less anxious, though.

@90swithcigarettesandalcohol We bought tickets from a machine last year.

Yup
Hate holidays because I get so wound up beforehand. Love it once I’m there though so I push myself to go. Kids have autism and adhd so assume I have some traits too.

All.of which aren't the end if the world. Our fuck ups on holiday are part of the memories, sonething to laugh about later.

I absolutely do this in the immediate lead up to holidays abroad. I look forward to it for months then just before we depart I suddenly think we should update our wills! On the journey I have to keep checking passports are in my bag & panicking I’ve forgotten to lock the door. Once we are away I’m absolutely fine.

We have had some brilliant city breaks with our teens & tweens @maldivemoment I’m sure you will have a great time exploring Paris together. While on the topic does anyone here know the best way to travel on Paris underground now? Can you just tap in and out with a debit card?

I’m the same OP but only with abroad holidays.

I think because I’m pretty poor so I don’t have the cash to throw at something if things go wrong plus I find airports often stressful places.
If it wasn’t for the lack of sun in the uk I wouldn’t bother going abroad anymore I think.

I think cruises would suit me but the kids won’t come with me.

100% agree with you.

if I could pick a job it would be a travel counsellor/consultant or hotel critic. I constantly look at new places to travel and look at new places to stay but in the last 5 years despite me booking a holiday, every day leading up to it I am anxious and think about possible scenarios that could go wrong.

I have absolutely no idea why and it pisses me off to the point I often need a very stern word with myself

Agree with this. Sometimes the best holiday stories are the ones where things didn’t always go so smoothly - the delayed flight by 9 hours, security opening your luggage and rifling through your dirty underwear, the taxi taking you to a completely wrong hotel in a completely different town, the many holidays where the first place you’re checking out on google maps is a pharmacy because someone’s inevitably come down with a cold/diarrhoea/sinus infection on day one… I remember them all fondly 😆

aah, but each time you check your bag for the passport you've had to open up and increased the risk of it randomly flying out. Then you have to check it again!

you'll have a great time and hopefully come home slightly baffled as to what you were so nervous bout.
Wherabouts are you going?