Do you go abroad every year for a holiday?

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Ive not been abroad since Covid, before that we used to go on holiday in Europe most yea, but now it feels like a faff and im not a fan of flying anymore but i cant help feeling im missing out. Does anyone else mostly have breaks within the UK?

Nope. Every few years we fly over to the UK for a holiday but the rest of the time we just have a holiday in our country (a few days at a rented cottage by a lake or we go up to Lapland for a week, like this year), if we even have a holiday - some years we just do a couple of day trips.

Only other abroad trips we've been on were a few days in Estonia when DD was little and a day in Stockholm. I hope now that I'm earning better we can go more places.

Not since 2019 and don't miss it as much as I was expecting to. We have a dog now and prefer to travel in the UK with her. We go away every other weekend on average, April to Sept.

I mainly holiday in the UK, there is so much history and diversity when it comes to the scenery.

keeping your holiday money in the UK also helps the UK economy rather than feeding another countries.

We go abroad every year. More than once. This year I have flown with my mum and teen DC, got Eurostar for a long weekend with DH and will be getting a ferry for a Eurocamp/theme park holiday in October half term. We love ferries as we can take bikes and body boards, and bring lots of lovely food and drink home.

Not at all. We live in a small cosy village so love visiting new places anywhere including in the UK as well as revisiting our favourite location for a hiking holiday every year.

We are doing a week in Holland later this year for £800 for overnight ferry and 5 nights accommodation at a Eurocamp with a free massive swimming complex, and a bunch of activities on site right next to a theme park. I think we would be hard pushed to find an equivalent type and standard of holiday in the UK for anywhere near that price. It’s no longer the cheap option to holiday closer to home.

I haven’t been abroad for 10 years, can’t really afford holidays at the moment but hoping that will change soon

Yes we do 2 weeks in normally Spain or Greece. I wouldn’t mind doing a UK holiday but I’d be worried about it raining continuously.
I had a holiday like this years ago, 7 days in Weymouth, August.. rained the entire week!

Once a year in the summer. We are VERY lucky to be able to afford it. We priced up a week in Wales or Cornwall and Devon this year as an alternative, and it was more expensive and didn’t include any food!

We travel abroad during winter for sunshine, we had 3 trips last winter. We will probably do 2 this winter.

we didn’t go abroad (we holidayed all over Scotland, England and Wales) for 16 years between our children being small and then decided to go abroad in 2020 but the pandemic put paid to that. Since 2022 we have gone abroad twice a year, making up for all the times we stayed in the Uk for holidays.

No we don’t just holiday in UK
We did when the kids were little they just wanted a beach, a pool, a big field to run off, so camping it was, this was pre-Covid - we gave more than done our fair share supporting UK tourism business

Now teens are older it’s great taking them to see things they have learnt about - Pompeii for example. No matter how long you look you just are not going to find a preserved Roman city in the UK.

We never “just go abroad” it’s to see something, usually many things.

We can do a UK holiday, but we’ve done them so much, variety is the spice of life, this year and next year are close to home holidays (Europe) next big trip is 2027, all going well, Great Wall of China is on the hit list, which you can’t see in the UK, the mini Terracotta Army @ Liverpool a while back was ok but clearly not the same as seeing the whole army in situ.

And we want to open the word to the teens, we are not sure the UK is the place for them to live their lives, so if we show them the world hopefully it opens their minds to other possibilities.

Haven’t been abroad since 2001. Don’t miss it tbh. Haven’t often been on holiday as a family either due to cost. We did move from the midlands to Devon near the coast so had lots of lovely days out within easy distance which really suited us.

last couple of years me and the husband have been heading off to gigs and combining it with a night or two away. This year we will have spent approximately 40 nights away together spread fairly evenly across the year. Tbh a few weeks in the Maldives would have cost less 🤣🤣 but it’s not my sort of holiday.

We do tend to go abroad a couple of times a year but I know what you mean about the faff. Chucking some bags in the car boot and driving a few hours to the coast, getting a grocery delivery, having no language barrier is far more relaxing a week for me than spending a week abroad.
I mostly enjoy it when I get there but I really cba with airports/flying anymore. For this year’s trip we had hoped to go by train but the cost was astronomical compared to flying.
At the end of the day, go where you want to go and do whatever gives you pleasure - it’s not compulsory to go abroad. The only reason we are going abroad this year is that it’s a specific activity/location that’s been on our list to do.

We do go abroad quite a bit, at least 4 times a year. We drive for 2 of these but fights for the others

I'm a bit the same.

My parents and sister/her family live in Australia. We alternate seeing them every second year with a summer trip to Greece, France, Germany, Cyprus usually. I will go to Australia between those times if need be (when my father was having chemo).

I hate flying though. My parents keep suggesting we fly to Australia Business class but with 4 of us there is simply no way we could ever afford it. So it's a long uncomfortable trip usually particularly because I have arthritis in my hips and spine.

But it's clearly important that the DCs see their Gps. And they are dual citizens so I feel they need to be accustomed to Australia. And I really believe that foreign travel and being exposed to other cultures is good for the DCs. They are both quite seasoned travellers now and the older one is determined to go abroad for university.

I agree that often travelling in the UK is more expensive than going abroad. About 2 years ago we wanted to go away for a week somewhere touristy in the UK. I had a budget and could not find anything that looked halfway what we wanted. So I ended up booking a package deal abroad.

No, I haven't been on holiday abroad since the late 1990s. The stress of it outweighs any other benefits.

We go abroad for a holiday at least twice a year. Also have city breaks in the UK. But personally I wouldn’t feel like I’d had a holiday if I wasn’t abroad.

compared to where?
there isn’t a Taj Mahal or a Grand Canyon or a sea that stretches like the pacific
or Corel reefs
or a dessert
or the midnight sun
or a tropical rainforest
or beaches like the Maldives
or waves like Portugal
or mountains like the Himalayas
or wildlife like Africa
or birds like Brazil

the UK is ok, but it’s no where near as diverse as the world

I try to. I find it more effort to have a holiday in this country so if I'm not going abroad, I don't bother going anywhere.

Yes we go abroad several times a year. Agree flying is a faff, but I’ve flown long haul (solo) once this year and for a European city break. Also been to France 3x, twice by car and once on the train. We got a further overnight train (an experience!) to the south of France. Door to door it was relatively cheap and worked well. Planning a further 2 trips. One to see relations in Ireland (likely by Ryanair) and our son who lives abroad (long haul).

We went to Greece in 2022 and that was the first time flying since 2012, the (teen) kids had no recollection of having been on a plane! We had been to France on the ferry or tunnel few times. We don't go abroad every year, but are planning to go this year.

I'm a bit about people who insist it's not a holiday if you don't go abroad or say they need to as if it's a special medical condition!

Yes, often fly to visit family in the EU or we drive to Europe which we love to do (I do think a lot about our co2 emissions and it’s better to take our electric car than a plane for four of us).

To smash up all my eco concerns, Dh took us all off to the USA this year but that will be our only long haul I think while the kids are young

I don’t feel I’ve been on holiday unless it’s abroad. We went to the Isle of Wight once, in the aftermath of Covid, and I just couldn’t get my head round the concept that this was a holiday - it felt exactly the same as being at home.

Not every year. In the last 10 years we've been abroad 4 times for summer holidays. Once children age out of the free child places and start getting charged adult fares it gets expensive in school holidays unless you drive to Europe, which I don't want to do.