I never thought I'd be the person who goes on holiday to the same place every year

[Prestia]

But every year it comes to booking and look at loads of options and then think that it might not be as lovely as the place we usually go.

If you'd have asked me in my 20s I'd have been very disappointed in my 30-something-self.

With small children there are so many unpredictable things they will do, start vomming with no access to loo, won't sleep, fall down health and safety hazard etc... I prefer one bit of predictable too...

We do go to new places but I love going back to where we know and yes it becomes cheaper as you become stream lined doing it

Dp is the one who would go to the same place year in and year out.

I had to put my foot down as I was bored to tears.

We go different places each year now.
Might go back if we enjoyed it again but only if we have been somewhere else in between.

I have a really short attention span and even if I enjoyed something once I end up hating it if we go back again and again.

I have relatives who go to the same place, twice a year, a week each time and always the same weeks and stay at the same place and when there do the same things/attractions. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't an hour up the road from them in Skegness

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Thank you so much that would be great if you could. I’m going around in circles trying to find somewhere for us to ski!

ha ha, us too. For the last 7 years we have been to Le Paradis in the Dordogne to camp. We are missing it for the first time this year and going to Mallorca. It won't be the same!

Although I am not sorry to miss the communal toilet experience!

We’ve been to the same place for a few years
Home from home lol ..

I'd hate to go to the same place every year because I'd be bored shitless but if you like to do it why do you care - holidays are for what you what not what the neighbours think - i like every holiday to be a new shiny adventure but I can see that certainty is more important to you - why do you care so much?

user1471453601 Halki is my happy place too (and thankfully not that well known!) Went at least once a year between 1996 and 2004 then DC arrived and foreign holidays were a thing of the past. I went back for the first time since with DD2 last year - lots of changes (bus! taxi!) but as lovely as ever.

@Doyouthinktheysaurus Whitby is lovely & you have Yorkshire Railway, York, & Scarborough nearby -

Ah yes, this is something that comes to many of us by my age. "30s" does seem you've peaked a bit early though

I have literally just returned my Lake Garda (girls holiday, my first time) and am now planning in returning with my DH and DC. Where should we book though for a family trip?? I stayed in an air bnb in desenza del garda and did trips - sirmione was my favourite but I met families on the train going to a chalet resort in Peschieri?? I'd welcome any recommendations please!

go up to monte baldo great view over the lake or mussilini's country house lol

I'm another that does this however my same place is Spain or Balearics. I do go to Nerja a lot. I've been around 7 times in the last 4 years but I'm generally happy if its Spain. I speak Spanish quite well so my argument is that we can have a better holiday because I find getting around easy and if there was ever a crisis I'd feel less isolated because I can talk to people.
There is a whole world out there to explore but I'm stuck in a very happy rut.

We had a small repertoire when DC were small...familiarity counts for such a lot and they are just unsettled if you have to work out somewhere new. Don't do this now...but perhaps we will again in future as we age!

It's the difference between home from home and wow what's this about.

Camping, no matter where, is home from home because of the familiar.

New York, or any location, a second time is going home akin to reading a beloved book or seeing a favorite film again. There's so much more to uncover after the first time awe.

It's ok to be comfortable in whatever makes you happy.

I would rather spend 3k, if I had it, on an off road motorbike, than a throwaway few nights with a person I can barely bare to be with.

Though I do like to be beside the sea side.

I'm the same, I hate that we have turned into the people who go to the same year year on year! But yet again this year our two holidays are to the same two places: my PILs holiday cottage in this country for week which was lovely, and then to a place in the med we have been to three times already. It's a very Mumsnet kind of place, often recommended on here, and we went there for the first time five years ago today, and this year will be our fourth visit. I just know that arriving there is going to feel like coming home. I'm fretting that it will have changed and won't be the same but I know it will be really! It's the perfect place to go with small kids and now that ours are 9 and 5 we may find this is the last time this particular holiday works. There is so much of the world to see, but when you find somewhere that is the perfect relaxing holiday when you have small kids it is hard to look beyond it.

ooh where to go for that long sound devine.
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Prestia ooh where.my parents are deperate to find somewhere but have spent so lng trawling the websites.and are no hitting a wall of too many choices to decide!

We kept going to the same places, mainly because we have family there, Scotland and/or the West Country, (DH hated holidays) then in 2017 I achieved a long standing wish to go to New York, so now each year it is the US because we have family there!

we been to the same place since i was born.and before that because my dads been since he was born.and my gran since she was little! its amazing and brings the whole family together.a little bit of my soul lives there.

We are those people too. DH & I used to globetrot but we go to the same place in the UK every year partly because one of our dc has autism.
Works for us.

I go to Lourdes every year. It's so expensive that I can't afford another holiday. Staying for 10 days this time so hoping to make it a proper break. As I think this will be my last trip there for a while. Though I've been saying that for the last five years!

We go somewhere every year, beautiful, near a pub and not too far to drive, and best of all, not too expensive.

I don't tell people about it in case they like it too

11 years to the same place in Greece, usually twice a year, a couple of years we have been once and somewhere different for our second holiday but not found anywhere we like as much. It's easier as we know where everything is, theres no settling in and finding your way around, we know all the good restaurants and we know loads of people

Umm it telling my place, but three weeks every summer for at least 12 years. We go to other places too but this is the easy bolt hole. We ventured into an AI somewhere else last year - we won't be going back!!