Have you ever gone?

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Have you ever gone away for Christmas?
If so, where did you go and would you do it again?
I usually love Christmas around my family, but thing is now my MIL wants to come and stay with me and my family for Christmas and I just can't handle her, she's such hard work that I'd rather love to be able to say 'oh we are actually away over Christmas' so then she gets the message and does not have any other option.

I sound like an awful DIL, but if you knew her then you'd understand my reasoning

I usually love Christmas around my family, but thing is now my MIL wants to come and stay with me and my family

So your DH gets to spend time with your family but you don’t want his family to spend time with him at Christmas?

Should have been more specific - my DH doesn't exactly enjoy her company either. We are both much closer with my family and get on with them a lot better - there's never any hassle with them.
His mother is hard work - he even says it himself

I have not, I just say I want Christmas without visitors. But I am fortunate that other siblings on both sides do want visitors!

If your DH is on board, maybe going away is a good option this year.

Yes we have done Lapland and around Bath and enjoyed both.

We went to the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico one year for Christmas a New Year. Our Children were in their late teens. We enjoyed it but it was quite expensive which is what you would expect at Christmas.
I would be quite happy to go anywhere in the UK as just a change.