If your parents live a long way from your children, how often do they visit?

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Long way = can't get there and back in a day.
Many variations on circumstances of course. Age/ working/ health etc.
Mine are in their late 60s, don't work, well, and last visited in September.

Live overseas - can get here in a very long day (14-15hr journey). Travelling between one place and the other costs at least £250, usually more.
Late 60s, semi-retired, reasonable if not perfect health. Dog that they're not especially keen on leaving with friends (though there are several friends happy to have him).
We visit them once a year, very occasionally twice. They visit us about 3 times a year.
Would you like them to visit more?

My parents live a very long way away (another country), they visit every couple of years (or we go to them), sometimes it's just my mum rather than both of them.

mine visit 5 times a year and its a long way (700 miles) . i'm aware that i'm lucky and that they are great. they are also in good health.

3 hour car journey each way to both sets of grandparents. All retired but very busy, in good health. They usually come here twice a year and we go there twice a year.

That is more than enough.

We try to go up every half term and stay for a week or so in the summer as they live near the sea. It's about a 5-6 hr drive.

I would love for them to see the kids more. We visit 3-4 times a year. A couple of short trips and a longer one where we stay on holiday to give them some space. They pass us every month on the way to see other family but never stop by. I keep inviting them or offering to meet halfway but they say they are too busy.
I think I might start doing day trips to where the extended family are. It's not so much how often that bothers me, more that they never suggest meeting up.

We lived far away from the rest of the family when I was a child. The attitude in our family has always been that it’s up to the adult children to make the long journeys more often than to expect the older family members to to do it. My grandma would visit on the train and stay with us for a fortnight to a month twice a year and we’d visit them for weekends or half terms 3-6 times a year.

We try for 3 times a year. We're about 24 hours by plane apart.

Not my parent’s but our in laws live in another country (an hour flight) and they probably visit 3/4 times a year.

My parents are separated and live 300miles away. My mam works in a school, she visits approx 3 times a year. My dad works still and visits 1-2 times a year.
In laws are 200miles away and both retired. They reluctantly visit 2-3 time’s a year.

We drive to in-laws about 3 times a year and to my parents 3-4 times a year