What age did your dc continue to come on holiday with you ?

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

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I'm about to go on holiday with my 19 and 22 year-old s

We didn't set a cut off if they wanted to come they did.

Are you paying ? And where are you going ?
guess if its soemwhere interesting/cool enough they will still want to come for longer ?

I can’t even remember what age I was when I went on my last holiday with my mum n dad

bit been with them as an adult

My 30 year old comes, my 26 year old doesn’t. We don’t go abroad as we have a dog now and we also take my brother.

Was there a gap though ?
say liek with me
I stopped at a certain age
Probably about 16 ish
then didn’t go again as an adult til about 22

bit self paying by them

Still coming at 25 and 26, with their partners. I pay because I enjoy their company and we all live in different countries so it’s the only time we all meet up.

Mine still want to come away with us and I’ve said to myself that I’ll probably continue to pay for them until they are out of education or have a steady income. I assume once they leave uni and get a job I’ll expect them to contribute although they may not want to holiday with us by then!!
If one or more of them don’t go to uni I’d pay until the same age to make it fair.

Mine just carried on coming 😂 we found things they'd like doing and changed it up every year.

When they were just out of uni we booked a villa for a few years and they paid for their flights out there.

Now they are married with kiddos we all go together but obviously each family unit pays for themselves.

Me and DH have obviously do our own thing too now we are both retired

my 20 year old is coming with us, I am paying. I can't bear the thought of not having him on a summer holiday with us although it's entirely his decision if he comes or not.

Last trip I did with my parents was at 17, though I did do a trip to Anguilla the whole family at about 30 (not really a success).
I'm about to take my 17 and 19 year old on a mini cruise, and we all plan to go to Spain and the States next year.
My son did have plans to go to Greece with mates after college but of course covid put paid to that. He's not at uni and has found it tricky to get friends together for a trip - some are working (as he is), some at uni, some have girlfriends who'd want to come, some don't... plus none are old enough to rent a car, so camping in the UK is as far as he's gone with mates.
I do have a friend who went every year on a big family trip thru all of his 30s. Him, bro and sister, wives/husbands/kids/parents/grandparents. I don't think I'd cope with that!

I still go on holiday with my dad and I’m 36 😂 he takes my whole family.

we dont go abroad that often. when we did and my mum was paying, and it was better than usual, they came!

I stopped going on family holidays around 18. Then restarted again when I had children.

They usually pay for the kids and we pay for the adults. Same as my brother and his kids.

If you want to go away with them you will probably have to pay!!

I find it odd or perhaps a trick to stop them coming when people charge them and are surprised they dont want to go.

Pils issued us instructions on what we had to pay to holiday with them... whereas with my dp it was all sort of more joint finances? We worked together as equals to see who can pay what . Sometimes I covered their costs more when I was flush and most times they covered me.

Pils issued order's however in a very condescending way, and we didn't fancy going with them.

I guess the essence of my post boils down too relationship.
If the relationship is good then it can be worked out.

My 19 and 17 year old still come on holiday with me (they love their holidays). Not expecting it to change any time soon...although I do pay and they love travelling. I stopped holidaying with my parents around 15 but they went on crappy UK holidays (not saying UK holidays are crappy just that the ones they chose were) and I didn't get on with my mother's partner.

We pay. Both kids still in full time education and being supported by us anyway.
My parents started going on holiday without me when i was 14 and i jyst didn't get a holiday.

I love spending time with mine so 2 weeks in the sun is fab.

My 15 yr old spoilt brat is refusing to come to Spain because "it's boring" but would like to be invited if we go somewhere more exciting 🙄

I know someone in their 80s who goes on holiday with her two children who are in their 50s.

I hope it never stops. DS 18 and 16 came with us to Gibraltar in Feb, Malta at easter and we're touring Germany in a couple of weeks. 16 year old DS can get a round in at the Bierkellers!!

23, 20, 16 all came, we paid. We mentioned it was probably the last family holiday with all of us and 23 & 20 were horrified.

”Why wouldn’t we come on holiday with you? We have a great time!”

As long as they want to come, they are welcome. When they are earning, I will expect them to pay their flights I guess, but we’ll still rent places big enough for as long as we get to enjoy their company.

The conversation goes

Me: Who is coming on holiday with us this year?
dc: who is paying and where are you going
Me: That depends how many are coming
dc: that depends on how may are coming and how many I would be funding

and round we go......

Mine are all in their 20s and not adverse to joining us, but, if using their own money, would probably choose something different.

I was 16 when I was told my parents had booked a holiday, I wasn’t coming and my older brother was in charge. To be honest I preferred it, they went during term time and although I was still at school my brother wasn’t and went out on the piss every night, I had the house to myself the whole week and loved it.

Thinking about it, it says a lot that they knew I would get myself to school everyday, they were under no illusions about how much care my brother would be giving 🤣