To refuse to go on days out in the UK anymore ?

[Heswall]

I have spent half the day mumsnetting from my phone because we have been bored rigid on a "day out" at a local national trust event.
The egg hunt clues were crap or missing, I ended up offering lunch at Frankie and Benny's if we could get the hell out of there and warm up.
I am sick of having to buy tons of layers of warm clothing that get taken off and then lost - if anyone finds an age 11-12 Joules Aire bodywarmer can I have it back please ? - I am sick of paying £60 in petrol and entrance fees for an hours entertainment at best.
For the price of Alton Towers I can fly two people to Spain, I feel I have done every farm, theme park, old house in the half of the country I live in.
AIBU to stay shove the staycation and save up for warm sunny weather and pastures new instead ?

I agree now our son is a teenager he prefers activities to days out, so will spend the day sailing or climbing. He would prefer a good walk with a picnic to a day in a NT property , although he does live his history so that is not always the case.

We do budget quite carefully and allow for membership to the NT, English Heritage and British Museum, all of which we make good use of and would visit somewhere every month. Because we have the memberships if the weather threatens to turn part way through the day , we know we can come back next weekend.

On a serious note which is not meant to be mean, I think it is important to think what you want from life and to budget and live in a manner that allows that to happen, as far as possible.

We lived in a rather urban, built up area that was something of a cultural desert. It did not allow us to easily to do the things that made us happy so we saved for a few years and moved. We also did not borrow to the max when we bought our home so we have money for days out every month and regular weekend breaks .

They went off rock climbing and abseiling all day today. £20 each, 9am-5pm wow, where do you live, we're moving & sailing for £3.

In sussex everything is expensive.

I agree about attractions becoming snazzy souped up (i assume they think valued added) institutions of adult torture and daylight robbery. Although the boys loved the caves as Wookey Hole we paid over the odds for all the indoor kids activities and the other stuff. Years ago when I went as a child it was basically just the caves and the mill, I loved it and it stuck very clearly in my mind which is why I wanted to take the kids. It is now very exp and very commercial.