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?!

No

About 10 years ago, my son said 'bye bye campsite, see you next year' and I shed a tear because I knew we wouldn't be back next year. He still remembers the holiday but forgot thinking that we would go back.

We stayed in a lovely family run hotel a few years ago and DD (about 10 at the time) wrote individual thank you letters to staff to give them on the day we left.

But we did not cry or promise to keep in touch.

I felt sad leaving the US when I knew that I would never see my US boyfriend again, so I did shed a tear on the flight home

But regular holidays? No, that's weird

I remember being a teen and seeing an older teen crying her eyes out on the transfer coach to the airport. She had been parted from her holiday romance. I thought she was nuts but I get it now that it must have been emotional leaving someone she had a connection with!

she sobbed in the gift shop when buying souvenirs

😂😂😂 unbelievable!!!

Oh dear God, no. I've occasionally felt sad to leave when the 'break from the norm' afforded by a holiday has highlighted something in my life I'm unhappy with or dreading dealing with. And once my parents kept in touch with the owner of a restaurant we'd eaten in a lot while on holiday, they sent Christmas cards to each other for years.

But weeping and wailing like this? Nope. These are going to be the sort of people who immediately have to be best friends with all the staff so that they are The Most Specialest of Guests, aren't they?

Not since I was about 15 and had a super crush on one of the waiting staff, he was at least 25, probably married and certainly not interested, but tears were shed.

They are clearly unhinged!

No I’ve always been happy to come home, even when I’ve had a lovely holiday.

Haha! I can feel a sadness at leaving with the likelihood of not returning but that’s the most that happens.

I was in a Facebook group for a hotel I was staying in, to get info on the area etc. there were “regulars” in there who go every year, or multiple times a year. They are the same about the staff, comments like “oh, I love <staff member> send him my regards! Will see him in three weeks!”

Its SO embarrassing……. Sheila, he doesn’t care about you, he’s not your friend, he’s polite and kind to you because it’s his job and he’d like a tip!! 😫🙈

Its the same middle aged and older people that get sucked into romance scams.

Jesus. I’m sorry but she would absolutely exhaust me.

My first thought about this is to wonder how good their home life is. If it's not great, the prospect of returning to normality and picking up the reins again might have felt tough for them. I'm in a phase of life at present where although my home life is not bad per se, it is extremely stressful (various health conditions + work + caring for a parent with dementia) and I will admit to having been in tears at the end of my main holiday with DH last year as the thought of going back to it all just felt so daunting.

Crying because I felt I'd miss people I met on holiday, though - no, can't relate. I'm an introvert and partly go on holiday to have a break from people (apart from DH). 😄

Not since I was 7 and cried saying bye bye to the swimming pool because I couldn’t bring it home!!

Lord no. Are these the same people who clap when the plane lands?

Haha, lol, no. Where were they holidaying, The White Lotus?

😂😂😂

This in spades. But, having said that, I am fairly vague on my neighbours names, woman next door we call two names as we can't remember and it could be either!

Do these people have really good memories or do they write names down after each interaction? I could never even remember their names. We went trekking in Nepal for three weeks and I can't remember the guides name. I can remember one from another trek as that was Winston , probably because of the Churchill connection.

My mum and dad always made friends on holiday but they absolutely hated each other so suppose it diluted the having to be in the company of the other person a bit. That's probably why I struggle with it, I go on holiday to spend time with my husband and child not other people as I like both of them, my parents were also always trying to get rid of me by telling me to go and make friends. That is not to say I've not had some good conversations with people on holiday but they are just that, a conversation a one off and I don't feel the need to get their contact details, or even know their name.

There were holiday "bargain" destinations I booked in the past where I cried when I got there and saw it!!

I mean, my 5 year old cried when we left our recent holiday but I've never done so as an adult.

I have, however, cried when I get home and realise just how much laundry there is to do.

I'm not sure the staff are also bawling their eyes out and looking forward to their correspondence...

It's nice they had such a wonderful holiday. It does make me wonder what stresses await them at home that make it so emotional to leave.

To be fair to those naming staff on tripadvisor, sometimes the staff members ask you to do this as they get a bonus/reward if mentioned a few times.

No need for the "hilarious" in jokes though.

I never been to a resort so I don't know. I just look forward and start planning the next one.

Nope. But am getting tearful at the thought of leaving my dogs and home to go on holiday - a holiday I really wanted, in a place I am excited about having been 20 years ago on honeymoon, with my teen kids. Go figure.

Never done it the other way around though - am usually happy to return to my home and the humdrum/stress of normal life and non buffet meals. I’d query whether you are really happy at home and explore whether it’s what you are returning to that is making you sad, rather than what you’re leaving?

😂 😂 No.

I mean, I felt sad when my Disney holiday was over but I wasn’t sobbing. I just booked another one 🤷‍♀️