Upper Middle Class not well travelled AIBU?

What are these ‘social class signifiers’ other than wealth and income?

Or my favourite “Where are you summering? We are summering in Cap Ferrat”.
Mind you, this is common among the school mums who are all wonderful but many of whom would not have been out of place in a modern day “Rivals” so I’m speaking with affection really.

Do they use the word summer as a verb? 😀

It’s not to do with wealth, though, but social class signifiers. They’re not that mysterious — people discuss them on here all the time.

I agree but you can only truly judge it if you've been to multiple places.

I have a friend whose family went to a resort when she was a teen. Same apartment block every year. When she started going on holiday with her BF that's where she went with him, different apartment in the same block. He had never been anywhere so was just happy to have a holiday. They have been together over 20 years now and bar a city break that's the only place they have been. Their honeymoon? Back to the same apartment. We decided to go on a mini break a few years ago and thew around lots of ideas but they kept pushing that we go to this resort and the rest of us refused, the plan was cancelled for covid anyhow and never happened again. I appreciate they enjoy it but the fear of new experiences or the blindness that other places could be equally nice makes them seem very narrow minded and I find it hard to respect to be honest.

I think this is about an attempt to shoot down a family you have envy towards OP.
Maybe you were not using it to mean "ticked the box" but a lot of people do use it that way - as if getting the insta shot there plus a T-shirt is somehow rounding them out as a person.

I have significantly reduced travelling by plane to reduce my carbon footprint. Therefore most holidays now are in Europe

Same. I've just absolutely had enough of airports. Love a train journey though.

Well for me those aren’t box ticking, despite the language I used, as I have family in both the US and SA so I won’t ever have “finished” or “ticked off” visiting there.

Some people like spending their holiday money on high end hotels but I would rather spend it to travel further and have more experiences of different places.

Not read the whole thread but lots of people may travel for work and not want long haul travel for holidays with children.

Please tell us more about the "subtle signifiers of wealth," I genuinely would like to know. Do you mean they are used by people deliberately to show how wealthy they are, or they are unconscious things to watch for in others?

There may be an element of 'class' in that certain places have an appeal for certain types of people (birds of a feather and all that) and some resorts can get a reputation (if that's the word) because of that. Isn't Rock in Cornwall nicknamed 'Chelsea on Sea'?! It would be true to say there's sometimes a dominant demographic in a holiday location. However, the reasons why people return time after time to the same place are varied and perfectly reasonable IMO.

What age group you are? Why do you hate going to a place twice? Is it because you didn’t like the place that much to return to it or that you are a passport stamp collector?

I consider myself fairly well travelled. Also lived in 4 different countries so far but now in my 40s , there are some places I love to return. Because I really like going to those places, it’s relaxing.

I doubt it’s a class thing! Some people just like going to the same place, which they really like, and where they know the ropes so don’t have to waste time finding out where to go, what to do.

For quite a few years when dds were at home we went every summer to the same beach resort, where there were excellent watersports run by responsible people (not always the case!) who we’d come to know well. They were fantastic holidays,

Later dh and I have returned several times to the same place in the Pelopponese, since we always thoroughly enjoyed it, and the particular hotel was amazing value with wonderful sea views.

We have visited plenty of other places, but these two were always ‘return’ favourites.

Absolutely. My SILs and their families go to the same Spanish resort annually.

And I know lots of 'working class people' who go to Ibiza or Felixstowe every year. Not sure what the point of this thread is, envy probably.

Christ woman, traditional brands are very naff.
It’s either Aldi own brand, some ultra organic Waitrose variant or you make your own
Kellogg indeed. You’ll be telling us Hienz baked beans and Gold Blend are nice next.

Each to their own, @Tabbytiger122 . You want to explore more places, they may like the comfort of knowing what standards to expect and where to find what they need etc. As others have said it's helpful if you want to learn another language.

I’m quite well travelled but honestly I’d take Spain or Switzerland or France over Barbados or Mauritius. Most of these “fancy” long haul holiday places are just resorts and beaches and you can’t leave the resort much. Also, why is it only the upper classes that do that? Lots of people from all classes are creatures of habit, and holiday in the same place. My parents took their caravan to the same campsite in Scarborough every year of our childhood 😁

I must confess that I seem to have fallen into that category in the past few years.
I like to ski in Austria and always go to the same place and hotel. It is family run and it is great to catch up with the family and with other guests from different places, who all ski at the same times of year.
My other destination is more exotic and I have been going there regularly since 1998, although I tend to visit different locations each time. I do always try to spend the final 2 or 3 days at the same place as it is convenient for the flight home and good to catch up with people I have met over the years.
When my husband was still alive and we travelled en famille, we went to a lot of different places, mostly based on last-minute offerings as we were both freelance, so could not plan too far in advance. We were reasonably open-minded about our destinations, though, but they were always outside Europe as we lived within fairly easy driving distance of most European destinations.

O.M.G. I just ate a bowl of Fruit n Fibre at 10am… have I betrayed my class? 😱 They were Kelloggs. though, not some own brand equivalent.

Agreed! I think we’d probably be categorised as wealthy working class😂
A cruise popped up on my SM the other day, round the world, 4mths, 50KPP before excursions, drinks package etc. it does look a good way of seeing the sights, but I’m not sure I could stick it out for that length of time…Southampton to Southampton with no flights though, so at least there’d be no ghastly airports to negotiate. Maybe when/if we retire!