Do you cry when leaving holiday resort?

[lovemeblender]

I haven't been in a resort for years so don't know if this is a thing, but yesterday I was talking to someone who just came back from holiday, saying she (and her family) were "bawling their eyes out" when leaving, how the staff became like family, how they are going to keep in touch with them and intend to visit them again. It brought back memories of when I was an early teen (the last time I was in a resort) and there were families crying like this, promising to write to staff and do on.
Sometimes I feel a bit sad to be leaving a place, but have never felt devastated or feeling that I have a special bond with the staff. I'm now wondering if there's something wrong with me?!

A couple of times, yes.

Some people's Mum's never threatened to give them something to cry over, and it shows.

I spent a month in egypt last year and most of it was spent at one hotel and I left to go up to Cairo then went back as a surprise for my last 10 nights and I cried when I left but I was alone and they looked after me during a really emotional time. I met a lovely person there who was definitely my type of nutter and cried when they left. We actually kept in touch and went in holiday together in the November and are making it our yearly holiday. I guess what im trying to say is it can be a really solid friendship or as is most normal a holiday friendship that doesn't last beyond a few messages

My friend at work went on a trip to India and said she cried all the way home, she knew she would never be going back and she said she loved it so so much that she cried.
she is very well travelled and very level headed, I think it was just a special trip for her.

i was jealous a bit when she told me because I can’t wait to get home from holidays and don’t like anywhere else enough to cry leaving!

I do remember being upset leaving places when I was very young. And being upset leaving the people we met there.
Being an adult is shite really isn’t it.

I shed a small tear on my honeymoon a few days before the end. We had a 3.5 week holiday of a lifetime and just had the most incredible time. We were sat having coffee and I quietly shed a few tears while we spoke about our favourite parts of honeymoon.

what you describe sounds quite frankly bananas.

Only time I cried leaving a holiday was because we were in Mexico and had gotten engaged and we upgraded ourselves from backpacking around to a fancy 5star hotel for the last 10 days of our trip and lived the high life When we never had done before

we were in a lovely bubble and I cried having to go back to real life and leaving the little bubble!

not because I was going to miss the staff 😆

We went on a great holiday about 12 years ago, flying to Calgary, travelling to Vancouver via Banff, Jasper, Whistler etc, staying in Vancouver for four nights and then going on a cruise to Alaska, followed by a few days each in Denali and Fairbanks. As we were leaving Vancouver on the ship, I remember feeling a bit sad as the Canadian leg of the trip has been really great, and I mournfully said to my husband “I wonder if we’ll ever see Vancouver again?”

Roll on the years… we’ve been in Vancouver ten times (twice one year) and are heading out there again later this year to our son’s wedding as he has been living there for nine years! I still feel a bit sad leaving Vancouver each time- but I have a good reason, I guess!

When Turkey was not so popular many years ago(30+) all the locals were v friendly and loved practising their English and hearing about European lives. A colleague visited a year after I had with her husband and had really lovely service from a young waiter. They exchanged addresses when they left. After being home two days the young lad turned up on their doorstep to stay😂 they were so shocked they just let him in and he stayed with them for months. I am sure it could not happen now but still makes me laugh.

Don't be daft. Of course the staff are your new best friends - it's what they're paid for.

No. But I don’t do holidays abroad. I went to ibiza in 1993 and cried most days cos i hated it. I was elated when keaving. Probably scarred me as i hated the thought of going abroad now

Sad a holiday has ended but nothing more. I only ever have a week off at once so it is not so long until the next one.

The examples given are people who have mental health issues to be honest.

When my initial cringe happened I actually thought of the threads on Disney with posters who say they do things like this and love it. It's great that we aren't all the same ❤️

Yes I did once in 2006 when we discovered Kefalonia (Greek islands) Hence why we like 80% of the islands visitors are returning local visitors, as they call us.

I never understood why someone went to the same place year in year out until we discovered Kefalonia.

We were in desperate need of the peace and tranquility Kefalonia gave us. I didn't expect what we got. It was far beyond the serenity of the holiday brochures as you booked by back then. We still went to other places on a second holiday. It's only Kefalonia that had that affect.

It's the reason I still go 19 years later. I say I cos my husband passed away 7 years ago unexpectedly however he wanted me to carry on going as it's a very safe island. I know so many and all in the village we stop in plus I have lifelong friendships with people like us there, who are returning visitors too. There is a widows club of is informally too

I took my late husband ashes home there this year to rest. I don't cry now as I know I will return annually to our spiritual homeland

Every year! But only because every year I go to the same lovely B&B for the Edinburgh festival and we’ve built up a lovely relationship with the owners. I’ve been going for about the last 10 years it’s not full on sobbing but when it comes to saying goodbye I always have a little lump in my throat And a tear in my eye that has completely cleared by the time I’m on the bus to the airport. And I don’t think there’s anything weird or mortifying about that at all.

Drama queens no doubt. Though when a great holiday comes to an end, it can be a bit sad.

Fuck no!
I’m now thinking I haven’t been on good enough holidays. I need to know the exact resorts that induce weeping on departure.

Only when I was a young teen and had holiday romances. I sometimes used to cry then. Never as an adult - I can't wait to get home, even if I've had a nice time.

Nope never cry because i only come home for a few weeks 1/2 weeks then bugger off again for 2 months.
Ive been doing it for years.

I’ve only ever cried when I left Walt Disney World 😂

The dc used to cry when we left Butlins. They'd then fall asleep and sleep most of the way home.

I think the oldest any of them were when they cried was about 8yo.

Oh god - I can’t even with behaviour like that. We’ve had restaurants/beaches abroad where we went multiple times every year, knew the staff there and were always happy to see them/catch up etc…but completely understood that we were customers, nothing more. Even as a kid, I wouldn’t have cried on leaving.

You’re not weird, OP!

No matter how much I’ve enjoyed a holiday , I’m always looking forward to getting home on last day .. and no I’d not be crying over the staff , if they were that good I’d tip them , thank them and say goodbye

Oh lovely examples keffie and Ronathediva you are like a local so bound to feel sad.
The ones that I roll my eyes are the cruise message boards on a cruise website when they see someone is going on a cruise ship they have been on and say oh please say hi to x or y ( staff members) they will remember us!?! I think there’s thousands of passengers each week no they really won’t

We visited Mauritius last year and I didn’t cry when leaving but I did feel like a might - I was really emotional. The holiday had been fantastic, like one I will remember until I die fantastic, and the staff were just incredible. I wouldn’t cry because of the staff more because of the memories. We had such a nice time so yeah, I do get when people cry when leaving places so special to them!

I have cried on the plane on the way back from a holiday because I was going through a tough time at home and knew I was going back to it all. But I have never cried for that reason! I did cry after leaving a sports camp I did as a teenager as I had such a great time but I was about 13 so have moved on since then.