Holiday with family and kids is a nightmare!!

[notenoughbottletonight]

On holiday with my parents, children, ds, bil and dn. it's has been nothing short of horrendous! This is a kids dream holiday but they have misbehaved, been rude and generally unappreciative of the £15000 that has been spent on this. It's so bad that I'm considering handing them over to their dads when I get home and having done with it! Is this normal or are other kids better behaved on holiday? I'm on the edge of a bloody breakdown with them and have four days left!!!

I'm sure there was a thread just last week full of kids who were ungrateful or misbehaving enough to ruin holidays. You are definitely not alone.

Holidays with kids:
Spend a fortune on days out
Spend a fortune on crappy plastic shit
Entertain in different ways every morning and evening
Ask at the If holiday what was the best bit
Answer always: playing in the pool

We now go all inclusive To somewhere with good pools and slides or a villa with a good pool - any other holidays can wait til they're older! Even my bf's DD who was taken to Disney a few years back when she was 9 preferred the pool and even chose to stay away from the parks multiple times To just swim!

I can never understand the concept of the entire family going off together for a holiday. Why not just take you and your kids to a simple holiday park which costs nowhere near your huge budget - and just have fun.

Yes we're in Orlando! I'd try that but I honestly do t think they'd care!

I was on the other tread and actually did send ds +his friend home via plane!!
My mil met them at the airport as his dps refused to have him home early!!

Mine ruined a holiday to Italy this year. I'd wanted to go for 33 years. They were so awful I cried in the pool twice. I don't cry in public.

Oh I wish I could send mine home! I have looked at flights but with three days to go now there's no point. I've cried a bit too, also in public which is unheard of. I feel awful for my mum as she paid for it but we've had constant arguments too, my parents argue all the time, my sister has fallen out with them and is being off with me too. It's just a disaster. Reminds me of every family holiday as a child though which consisted of me and my sister sat in a hotel room for several hours s day while my mum and dad argued and then the passive aggressive treatment that would follow.

Dc often misbehave on holiday, add in jet lag and it gets worse. My pair talk about Orlando as their favorite holiday a few years later but it didn't mean they didn't have a few strops at the time. Some holidays are best when looked back on rather than in the moment.

flumpy I have just finished a half term road trip with dc across a great bit of the US, the dc's favorite bit, the tatty hotel that had a flume.

I think decent holidays are wasted on children. Send them to one of the Pontins prison camps next year. Southport is supposed to be pretty bad.

We’ve tried assorts with our kids and have come to the conclusion that a cheaper holiday, all inclusive with a pool is the only way forward. We also try to get separate bedrooms or at least we sleep in a room with a divider. I found lack of sleep, especially the dc was the main contributor to a shit day

How old are they op? Full sympathy, sounds dreadful. I've been extremely lucky with my two, but I've seen some absolute monsters on holiday with exasperated parents (particulary in Florida) and put it down to tiredness, over stimulation, too much sugar and too much of a good thing! Can you all have a lay in tomorrow and a lazy day by the pool with no plans?

They're 12, 10 and 5. I'm just counting down the hours now. The arguments are just immense 😭