Anyone get anxious about going on holiday?

[GreyHairChic]

I love it when I’m there, enjoying the warmth, food and seeing the sites but I get so stressed in the run up to it. Instead of getting excited, I feel uneasy and wish I wasn’t going.
I worry for 3 or 4 days before and all the way to the airport then settle down once checked in. But right up until that point I am on edge and looking forward to being home again? How crazy is that? I am so lucky I am able to go in the first place. WTF is wrong with me?

Never used to be this way either. It’s got
worse since Covid and as I have got older:

I worry about the cat and a family member who has poor mental health.

Me too! No kids, travel with and without DH (and have done a lot of solo work trips internationally).

It's definitely the travel rather than the holiday that is the stressful factor that makes me want to be able to just stay home, but the feeling is more generalised than that at the time of feeling stressed.

Before covid we had many years of terrible train journeys every time we went anywhere, late trains, cancelled trains, over crowded, no space for luggage or people, everyone stressed and grumpy and feeling like you had to fight to get to where you needed to be, which just cemented the association of holiday with stress.

Our last trip we had new shiny trains with plenty of seats and my god the difference it made!

It’s years since we went abroad, but I’m the same with UK holidays. I prefer to be in my comfortable home, rather than pay for staying somewhere that is less comfortable. I’d rather go for days out, but DH likes a get away.

I am exactly the same- would cancel the day before if I could. It’s a horrible feeling and I hate being this way 🙁

Yes me! It started a few years ago - and the worst part is that I am not even sure what I’m anxious about, it is just a horrible feeling that sets in 1-2 days before going away 😫

I feel exactly the same. It has got worse as I have got older. I have been to some exotic amazing places but always have huge anxiety leading up to the actual holiday and the day we actually travel to the airport. Always fine, once on the aeroplane and at destination but then it starts again a few days before we come home. Never experience this on UK holidays. We are going abroad in September, first time since Covid and already stressing about it!

I’m exactly the same. No problem with car holidays to Devon or Wales though.

Im unafraid of flying and I quite like getting a coffee at the airport after check-in, and people watching. So I don’t understand the anxiety! It’s weird.

Yes me. I’m bad at the best of times but going on package hols in a few days (coz packages are less stressful to me) and added complications in that dd has to change her plans and travel out separately so waiting for Jet2 to confirm that’s ok. Never mind that I might break down on the way to the airport/get stuck in traffic etc. Anxiety through the roof.
Today I would happily cancel altogether.

Bit late to the thread so hoping it's still active . We go away with friends in less than a month and my anxiety about it has hit a high today, I just want to cry. Couldn't focus at work, couldn't eat, dodgy tummy. We are only going for 3 nights (never like this when we go away in this country!) X

the prep/packing makes me very stressed and anxious but I'm fine as soon as have left house on way to airport.

Yes me too. I never used to be like this though:

Just read this thread , sat here this evening thinking exactly that if someone offered a full refund today I’d take it.
We’re going away on Tuesday, didn’t want tea tonight and feel physically sick. I can’t even tell you why, always the same prior to a holiday abroad. It’s a luxury holiday to celebrate Dd finishing GCSE’s , I’ve no reason to be anxious or worried - it just always happens 🤷‍♀️

I'm glad it's not just me. I hate the prep, planning, build up, packing. I've found it's worse since covid. But I do enjoy myself once I'm away.

I’m the opposite. No problem with the packing and travelling, but once I’m there I can’t wait to get back
home to my own bed and my cats!!

I get hugely anxious and it doesn’t even have to be abroad or more than an overnight stay. Once I’m on the mode of transport I am using, I am fine.I am also fine coming back, though I like to get to the station/airport really early.

I feel exactly like this op. I especially dread getting ill when away. I feel ridiculously sad in the days leading up to a holiday, thinking how much I’ll miss having a cuppa in my favourite place in the garden or how much I’ll miss my own bed. Once I’ve been there a few days I do relax and enjoy it but I do get ridiculously sad in the run up.

I am a very anxious person in all areas of my life though🤷🏻‍♀️

I literally started an almost identical thread to this tonight!

We fly early August. It's a much awaited holiday that has been booked for just over a year. Most of me is so excited! Me, DH and DS. DS is 9, so well past the baby/toddler stage, a very easy going kid who is excited to go to a new place/see new things/try new food. Hotel has amazing reviews on trip advisor.

I am, however, getting very anxious (though I am quite anxious generally). I have planned it with military precision. We can check in online and do day before bag drop as well to make things easier.

Despite all this, my brain goes into over drive!

What if the airline loses a case (I will cross pack and put a few bits in hand luggage so not the end of the world, but still!). Can't actually do anything about this so little point worrying 😕

Worrying we'll forget something - we're not going to Mars so if needs be, we can get it over there.

Then worries about getting through security/transfer being there at the other end/my debit and credit card working abroad (yes, I am informing the bank via the app) etc.

It's hideous! I know I will be fine once we are in departures and we will have a brilliant time but I so wish I could be one of those people who doesn't worry!

Same here!

I don’t think Covid helped at all. The hassle of all those tests and forms and the worry of getting Covid before or during the holiday just made planning a holiday so horrifically fraught.
Airports in general have just got more and more stressful generally over the past twenty years or so.
Self catering in the UK has become horrifically expensive too. I sometimes wonder if it’s worth going on holiday at all.

Then there are the additional problems of not being in the EU now.