Most middle class family holiday destination? (just for fun!)

[Butterforbread]

I haven't spotted a middle class thread all week so thought I'd start one just for fun 😜
In your opinion what are the most middle class or umc holiday spots?
Summer:
Any part of France (extra posh if you have friends or family who have a house to put you & the kids up in!)
Italian Lakes
Greek Islands

Winter
Barbados or similar Caribbean Island
Skiing in the Austrian, Swiss or French Akps (wealthiest go to Switzerland)
Christmas markets

This is just for fun & based on the wealthier middle class families I know! They all seem to go to the same places!

Agree with rural France and maybe Tuscany. In an old chateau or similar.

Galápagos Islands
Sylt, Island in north Germany
Lech - winter skiing
Grindelwald - summer glacier hiking
Zermatt - summer glacier skiing
Okushiga Kogen, Japan - skiing and snowboarding for the children
Nantucket

Chile
Uruguay - horse riding
Mustique
Micronesia - diving
Mafia - island in Zanzibar
Anywhere that involves a lot of inconvenience to get there…

Scotland- Rockcliffe Kippford etc

Because to some on MN, being WC is the worst thing in the world to possibly be, so the WC caveat their posts by insisting they aren’t ashamed of their WC status 🤷🏻‍♀️

I consider myself WC, pretty ambivalent about it, but I’ve had posters on here tell me I’m MC as if to reassure me because we are well off and live an apparently ‘MC lifestyle’ 😂 being thought of as WC on MN is a horrifying prospect for some

‘Middle class’ covers so many different types and incomes. The key thing is ‘middle’ . I think many here are confusing MC with posh, or rich , or upper class. The latter three types are all independent of each other too. As for working class , we all pretty much have roots in the working class, even aristocrats. Their forebears often started off as sheep farmers etc. Many of the current MC have grandparents that would be defined as working class, if not parents. It’s all meaningless really. The only clear fact is that certain resorts are definitely NOT touched with a barge pole by MC! Eg- Benidorm etc.

I was thinking Cornwall for a family holiday for sure.

Actually thinking about it, the most middle class holiday destination this weekend is probably Dover...

River cruising along the Lot is for the MC. Canoeing along the Dordogne is for the MC who are trying to convince themselves they are still down to earth, WC people at heart.

I didn't realise how popular the UK was until this thread!

Interesting that Sylt is considered a MC destination. It's off the beaten track for most Brits, but I don't know if that makes it middle class. Haven't been, but would like to as I am reading a book at the moment that is set there.

Is anywhere off the beaten track considered middle class? Why?
DH and I dislike crowds and noise. That has absolutely nothing to do with what class you "belong" to.

I imagine it is more MC to stay in UK and explore rather than go to package holiday to the continent. Probably similar in price but the experience is completely different. MC is about cultural capital rather than just going somewhere for sun/sand/sea???

The Maldives is for the inflatable hot tub people now.

That's well put & I think you may be right

The Maldives is for the inflatable hot tub people now.

🤣🤣

"I think many here are confusing MC with posh, or rich , or upper class."

The OP said the 'most' middle class destination so I can guess that she doesn't really mean lower middle class. She either means (even if she wouldn't admit it) people with education and status or people with status AND money, so what I would call posh.

@Gwenhwyfar Think you might have hit the nail on the head! Holiday destinations with the most status..!

It’s possible to be middle class but have low status and vice versa.

Class is such a funny concept. I would definitely class my DP as MC but myself/my family are much more WC. In the past year, DP and I have been to Copenhagen, Interlaken in Switzerland, St Anton in Austria skiing, Malta and Mauritius.

I've been to Dubai in the past, definitely not MC as others have said. And I wouldn't class Centre Parcs as such either.

I'd definitely say skiing, Austrian, French or Swiss alps especially. When I was at school all the kids I considered to be posher went skiing regularly 😂

@RedToothBrush

Same as my school... I remember my first part time job & two of my teenage colleagues were shocked I couldn't ski & never had been!

Surprised the Codswolds hasn't been mentioned more for the UK destinations!

@Jezebell what do you mean by low status?

We are MC and found the Cotswolds properly posh./ UMC if anything

That might rule out middle class masses so! DH & I have been out the outskirts & had coffee in a quaint little tearoom but that was it. Gorgeous part of the UK.