Holiday today 😃

[Youagain2025]

Going on holiday today everyone is very excited . I'm shitting it at the same time though.

I need to get to Liverpool street station. My original thought is to get the bus all the way there I think it said 1hr 20 min. Or I could get a train with 2 changes which would take me about half the time. But once im on the bus I don't have to worry . So maybe I should stick to that.

As we are getting to the resort late about 10.30pm will there be any food available? Just snacks or something. We are all inclusive which includes main meals, snack s drinks

Yes. They will normally look after your cases too, but ask reception and get them to confirm.

Should be, although check re. Food/drink. You can ask at reception if there are any dayrooms available to shower/change before you leave and anywhere to store luggage. Otherwise just change in the loos.

It's funny how on every thread you've ever made when someone makes suggestions you always have a reason why you won't do it/it won't "work for you". Tbh, I think you just like complaining and don't want to do anything to make things a bit better.

You claim you'd be stressed looking at free things to do in the area. It's really not that stressful, you just don't want to do it for some reason.

All you've done is complain, alot of people can't even afford to go on holiday in the UK these days nevermind you +kids (I forget how many, 4?) going to Spain yet you don't seem to appreciate that you're there, that you have been able to afford a break away.

You come across as very ungrateful.

I'm not trying to sound mean, it's just what I've noticed. I was hoping you'd have a great time on holiday but all you do is complain. I think you need to check your privilege.

Not trying to sound mean whilst sounding mean. I can do what threads I want to it have been sharing alot of mixed things . This holiday is a massive step for me . And
I mean massive . If you don't understand that then I can't do anything about that.

I guess what posters are trying to say is that it doesn't sound like much of a holiday if it causes this much stress.
You're worried about money but cancelled and I assumed paid for a significant chunk of one holiday because u felt I didn't research it enough.
Then you've wasted another lot of money because you didn't listen to posters about the liquids rules. Then you say you don't want to waste money doing an excursion outside of a resort you say it boring.
Then you've spent the holiday saying the food is rubbish and you think you're all grumpy. All of this was researchable.

My point is perhaps it's just not for you? My sister can't deal with the stress of foreign holidays, so she doesn't go on them, problem solved?

No you have misunderstood alot.. my battery is gonna go nut I will explain fully as I can in a short while

I have said several times that we are enjoying the holiday. But yes I have moaned a bit . But I dud say niggles which means they are small things . Me saying we are grumpy is just my homour which is why I often put a laughing face.

Regarding advice people have often got pissed off with me for not tsking advice what people don't realise is maybe I have taken someone else's advice.

Also I have said on several occasions that I do have learning difficulties which means things that may be simple to others are not to me. Things like going on a bus or here and there in a different country is very out of my comfort zone and I have already dine a massive thing even coming away . Yes a few bars have gone wrong but mot massive things and I can learn from them.

The money/euro thing i still don't understand at all. And I do t want to do something I don't understand

But your ds has travelled before and presumably understands currency. Is there a rep for the company you booked with, they often upsell trips for which you can prepay in £ or e or the hotel reception may be able to organise. Maybe bear that in mind for another time. Lots of people book AI and never leave the hotel though!

Google a currency converter, use it.

I find ds little difficult. He says things like don't worry just pay with my card and doesn't explain anything . And I don't want to just pay with his card. The chemist thing was my own fault . I went on my own so had no one to ask.

In my head i wasn't going to leave the resort. Because I thought few days at the pool ,night entertainment.. plus a couple of beach days . But I didn't know the beach was how it is. I know that sounds boring to lots of people but my life is quite full on so it was like a chilled holiday but also with things the kids would like.

But you said you'd be going to Aldi? So you always planned on leaving it?

I hope you’ve had a fun time, well done for going out of your comfort zone, that takes courage. Nothing is ever perfect on holiday even if we want it to be.

Safe travel home.

There’s nothing wrong with not leaving the resort if you’re all happy there. I think it was only when you started complaining about the food, the pool etc that people started offering alternative suggestions, to try and help you all to have a good time.

I had always said I would get things either from the airport which people had recommended. Or from here. When ds said about aldi I thought that may be an idea since we have then in the UK so may be familiar but like a dick I saw the chemist and went there which I probably should not done.

This is where people have misunderstood me and this is also why I kept using the words niggling bits hoping they would understand it's not a massive deal . And also several times I said its a Me thing. The pool was ds complaining.

I know you said it was a ‘me thing’… that’s why people were offering suggestions as to how it could be better for you. They were just trying to help.

Thank you.

@AlwaysAProblem @RainbowAndArrow

I think that some people find certain things in life harder than others and maybe just need a little bit more encouragement and support ? But equally too many people offering advice can be too much to take on board at one time.

I'm so glad you got there and are having a good time. There are always niggles, especially with kids and this holiday has taken you way out of your comfort zone
i really admire you.

Thank you. On a whole it really is good. Next time I can probably do something better. I don't think i done bad for a first holiday and not really knowing what I'm doing.

That's not a problem I haven't said people offering suggestions was a problem.

I live by the mantra with my kids (and step kids), try it and if you don’t like you don’t have to do it again. Life is too short to not live it to the full, my 12 year old stepson had NEVER been in the sea, not even in UK. He absolutely loved bouncing around in it with me in Rhodes, even jumped off a boat in to it. It doesn’t have to cost loads of money, but travel is a massive gift, and taking risks pushes children’s boundaries, gives them resilience

Every holiday has the odd niggle. The time something bit me and I had something the size of an actual egg on my arm. The time DP slipped in the Atlas mountains and spent the next couple of days moaning that his arse hurt. The time my tent fell down in a gale in France in the middle of the night. The time a skunk sprayed at our coolbox in Canada.

Doesn't mean they weren't all good holidays. I hope it's been mostly good and well done for doing it.

Exactly I'm sorry to hear about your Dp butt, tent , the bite. I'm glad you enjoyed your holidays though despite them things happening. But yeah couple little niggles does not mean i have not enjoyed it. Even just the fact I managed to do it i didn't think I would. And the experience of going on an aeroplane as an adult . And for the kids.

Exactly. Any niggles become funny memories with time. The kids will remember the exciting new stuff!