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?!

I’d describe myself as an emotional person - I love holidays and nice staff but your friend sounds mad. I cry when leaving Canada or Chicago but that’s because I don’t know when I’ll next see my family. Saying goodbye to my brother and his family in Legoland carpark after not seeing him for 3 years due to the pandemic was a tear-fest as we didn’t know when the next time would be. Can’t imagine having that bond with hotel staff.

I usually love getting home to my own bed!

Ok, I just remembered and I’m embarrassed to say I did have watery eyes ONCE when it was time to go home.

I was mid 20s, in NYC for a week with dh. We went in December when all the Christmas lights were up and it was just an amazing holiday from start to finish. Everyday was one of those blue sky, sunny but cold crisp days. I genuinely wanted to stay longer. On the last day, I confess to having teary eyes when we had our last morning coffee downtown🥴

I would have been disappointed in mumsnet if someone had not made this comment on page 1 😂

It natural to feel a bit sad that your holiday is over but this person sounds like an attention-seeker.

No, I usually can’t wait to get home. Only cried once when returning from a holiday, stayed at the Donkey Sanctuary in Devon in 1977, best holiday I have ever had beating all the more far flung places I have been to!

I love holidays, always try to book another one shortly after coming home from one, but I must be getting old as after a week I'm usually itching to go home and get into my own bed and drink coffee exactly as I like it.

This is so funny and so true.

I’d also add outpourings of grief on FaceBook groups because José is no longer working at the hotel bar and ‘we only booked for this year because of his excellent service when we came last’.

Some of the staff seem to assume a celebrity status with people searching them out for a family selfie to be proudly posted online. It feels a bit uncomfortable that in a resort of several hundred staff, nearly all of them working really hard for low wages, that a very small proportion get the recognition (and presumably the tips).

Never.

I do cry if I return to a place that holds special memories though.

My friend is like this. Not the crying, but becoming besties with the staff. Her whole family goes to the same resort every year and they take through a whole bunch of gifts, like wine and chocolate, for all the staff they know by name. Then they all know the other guests by name and go to each other's weddings and time when they'll be back at the resort together, etc.

I don't understand it myself but then I don't regularly go on resort hols. I went on one once and was a bit embarrassed by the friendliness of the staff, because it's just their jobs and they won't know me from Adam the same time next week. I can't be doing with any fuss. But then I'm a right miserable bastard.

That’s just weird.

No. Pathetic!

No. Very weird.

But were you missing the people or the donkeys? I’d have cried leaving the donkeys.

No, but when I was little our family did make friends with the family that ran the campsite. It does happen! They were our actual friends and they came to see us and we went to each others' birthday parties and so on.

That was a long time ago, and it was a wee family-run campsite in Scotland, not a resort, though.

Flippin eck….hahahaha….but no. I do sometimes get the holiday blues, mainly because I’m returning to normal life, work etc, not because I’ll miss the staff!

No, but I do have very performative family members who do go around giving everyone hugs and pressing wads of cash into people’s hands in really over the top and awkward fashion. I’m sure they have cried a time or two.

Me, I don’t stay at resorts. Because I don’t like having to interact with other people that much. 😂

Heck, no. I saw something similar in Club Med years ago, with the staff standing by the coaches on the last day to wave everyone off, wiping their eyes and encouraging the holidaymakers to have a good cry. Bonkers. I'm usually glad to be going home.

Err - no! Because I’m an adult who has learnt to regulate their emotions. These people sound so odd! And surely they must realise that the staff are not like family, they are being friendly as part of a transaction in order to up their tips 🙄

That’s a bit OTT

This is how 60 year old Barbara from Blackpool ends up getting sucked in by a young local waiter, who declares his undying love for her.

It must be exhausting! The only time I remember crying on leaving a holiday was when we had visited our daughter on the other side of the world.

Nope, never.

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I can't wait to leave usually and get back to my cats.