Do you think people ‘look down’ on UK holidays?

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Just a thought I was having today.

My partner and I have booked a UK cottage holiday in August for us and his kids which has not worked out much cheaper than a holiday abroad. However when his kids discussed it with their mum her reaction was ‘oh can’t they (my partner and I) afford to take you away anywhere nice this year?’.

To be honest, we could afford to go abroad if we wanted to but just fancied a UK holiday this year.

Do people really look down on UK holidays and assume that people who holiday in this country must be too poor to travel overseas? Sorry if this sounds silly but her reaction has made me feel slightly paranoid.

I’m no royalist, but the queen holidays in Scotland every year! 😉

It depends which bit of the U.K.

People will look down on Blackpool/ Butlins etc but Scottish islands/ Devon/Norfolk are often the domain of the middle middle classes.

Depends on who you mix with, renting a cottage in Cornwall is quite fashionable around these parts among the posher people (of course they do go overseas skiing or at Easter so "we're slumming it in the U.K. " comes with a caveat. We often go in the U.K. so we can take the hairy one - he doesn't do hot weather so no point getting a pet passport,

Definitely yes, last week I was out with a group of 3 friends, the conversation got onto holidays and they all gushed in turn about each others foreign destinations, when it came to be I said we were going to the Lake District and Cornwall and had a polite smile and "oh lovely" then that was it.

It's all personal taste though, the thought of sitting by a pool all day or a red hot beach fills me with dread.

I can't even afford a UK holiday :(

The only time I would want to be guaranteed of weather when going abroad is for skiing. Otherwise I find the relentless heat of some countries unenjoyable and I find worrying about children drowning or getting sunburnt etc to stop my time being relaxing.

I'm pale. My kids are pale. None of us deal well with the heat.
I can think of nothing worse than being crammed into a concrete hotel to sit round a pool or squash onto a beach.

Give me a pretty UK cottage any day. Or a nice farmhouse in France.

Not in my circles. Lots of people go to cottages in Cornwall/Devon/the Lake District/the outer Hebrides. People are much more snooty about holidays in Spain or Dubai.

I love the uk, but there is something horizon-broadening for children about getting abroad and just seeing the little differences in everything around you. Even if you go to a tourist resort and don’t speak a word of another language there are different plants growing by the roadside, different birds, different roadsigns and all sorts of different things sold in shops.

Whereas if you go somewhere in the uk you can end up reproducing many aspects of the life that you already lead at home, just in a different location.

I've had some of my favourite holidays in the UK.
I'd not judge.

They notice, certainly. When I have that holiday conversation at work, lots of people remember that we tend to holiday in the UK. I don’t think they look down, but they know it’s not what they’re expecting to chat about.

How odd. I’ve genuinely never come across that attitude. We sometimes holiday in the UK, sometimes abroad. Depends on what we fancy at the time. I think anyone looking down on somebody else’s holiday destination must be rather insecure.

We holiday in the UK as I can't bear to leave our dogs behind. We've had some gorgeous holidays, and I personally don't see the appeal of going abroad other than for the weather. I can't bear traditional beach holidays with thousands of others packed in like sardines around you.

I love holidaying in the uk. Speaking of which, if anyone can recommend some good places please do. We had a great week in Staffordshire once which doesn’t sound at all glamorous but there was so much to do. Prefer to be a bit off the usual hotspots like Cornwall or Cotswolds....anywhere spring to mind?

Agree it's pretty middle class to tramp down to Devon/Norfolk/Scilly Isles/Scotland.

Puzzled that all foreign holidays consist of is being crammed in concrete jungles?
You can hire beautiful holiday homes abroad as well as this country, we do both.
Only difference is,the weather is better abroad.

I think some people do, yes. We've generally holidayed in the UK since having kids, as we have found it cheaper than the sort of foreign holidays we like. A friend did say to me once when I told them that we were going to the Outer Hebrides that she thought we liked travelling. Yeah, we love to travel thanks and we discovered and learnt far more on the Isle of Lewis than they did sitting by a pool for two weeks! At least we had huge beaches to ourselves :)

I think each country has their own range from poncey to Pontins😂

I reckon my week in a house in North Cornwall is higher up the ladder than the week in Malaga on an English resort. That might just be me though because I super love Cornwall.

I don’t look down on them but I don’t overly like UK holidays just because they remind me of childhood holidays. Invariably we’d go somewhere colder than where we’d come from, the house would be OK but less comfortable than home. There would still be as much cooking and cleaning to be done as usual. And for all this, it cost a lot of money and was booked about a year in advance. I just never really got what bit of it was a “holiday”.
But that’s just me not liking self catering especially not liking self catering in a damp, only moderately warm place... it’s just a preference.

West coast of Ireland for white sandy , uncrowded beaches backed by mountains. IF you get the weather, it's grand.

I don't really like sunbathing so I love UK in the warmer months and don't mind a warm sunny break abroad out of season. Can't bear sweating ALL the time.

Ooh no, I love a cottage holiday! Mind you, DH and I are a couple of old gits and do all the National Trust stuff, cream teas, etc.

We tend to stick to the UK in the summer (last August we went to Wales and Ireland). However we do also value some guaranteed sun, and tend to go abroad either Easter, or May:October half term (we did 11 nights in Cyprus during October half term last year and it was glorious).

Some people really love hot weather and without that it’s not a holiday🤷‍♀️

I like warm dry weather but not hot (am blonde and freckled) so I like uk and Northern Europe holidays in summer and would only go south out of peak season.