What's the longest car journey you can manage?

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Sorry if this is a boring question!

I hate car journeys with a passion and pretty much refuse to do anything over five hours without breaking it overnight.

Am I alone in this? My DH thinks so and I have noticed that others seem more tolerant. Should I get over it?

7 hours on holiday to Cornwall is fine. We have a long break at a NT property to break it up.

12 hours to the ILs is painful. There's a 4 hour break within that on the ferry, but there's still a good 3 hours on the other side. 12 hours means that it is the entire day, and often ferry times mean that you can't optimise it so there's normally a crazy start or finish time. Plus the other side is mindnumbingly monotonous and tedious. There's also the pressure of the ferry timing.

Many years ago we'd slog up to the Scottish Highlands, but different legs of the journey had different character. Not tried that one with DCs though!

My dad lives in the wilds of Scotland. The drive up there is about 8 hours or so. 9 if you count stops.
When the kids were little we broke the journey with an overnight stop but now we do the whole thing in one day. I've done it alone several times. However its a beautiful journey once we pass Glasgow and seems to break up into segemtns quite naturally.
I used to love the idea of an overnight halt but it gets very expensive now the kids are older - a Family Room in a Premier Inn seems very small whne you have a 17 year old who has no idea where he ends and the world begins!