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To think a UK holiday IS a proper holiday?

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 16/07/2013 10:28

I love going on holiday in the UK, can't afford to go abroad but even if I could I would still enjoy UK holidays. I absolutely love caravans :o

My OH hadnt been in a caravan before i met him, but im converting him! Sometimes we stay in cottages too.

He has 3 sisters who love going abroad and can afford it, so fair enough it's their choice.

But one has a partner who she has been with for a couple of years now and he hates flying too. So they do UK holidays, they both have children. My Neice and nephew are used to going abroad and don't consider it a proper holiday if its in the UK. She took them abroad for the weekend recently without her OH and put on Facebook and then everyone started commenting how it was a proper holiday!

I wanted to scream YOU CAN HAVE A PROPER HOLIDAY IN THE UK!!

But I just ignored it!

I love my UK holidays thank you very much, plus it means I don't have to sit in a big metal thing that somehow manages to fly even with all that weight in it!

So AIBU to think a UK holiday is a proper holiday?

OP posts:
ReginaPhilangie · 16/07/2013 10:33

Nope YANBU. If a UK holiday wasn't a proper holiday that means I wouldn't have had a holiday in 20 years. Hmm Last time I went abroad I was 15!

trinity0097 · 16/07/2013 10:36

My personal opinion is that a holiday is something where I do not have to cook or clean up! That rules out breaks in cottages/caravans/camping etc as in my mind I do not find them relaxing in the slightest! For that reason I holiday abroad to a hotel that will look after me. Doesn't mean my view is the only correct one and I know that many people love holidays in the UK and catering for themselves, just isn't my cup of tea.

Flobbadobs · 16/07/2013 10:36

YANBU. There are some beautiful places in this country that you can go to in a couple of hours.

FeckOffCup · 16/07/2013 10:36

YANBU I love caravan holidays too, so much less hassle than going abroad and having to think about luggage weight limits, check ins at stupid o clock in the morning, finding food in a foreign country that will be acceptable to a fussy toddler etc.

kim147 · 16/07/2013 10:36

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Kaluki · 16/07/2013 10:37

YANBU at all.
I didn't go abroad till I was in my 20s and we had some wonderful UK holidays when we were kids. All we needed was a beach and a bucket and spade!
I have taken my dc abroad a few times in the past but now I have 2 stepchildren too we can't afford to take all 4 kids away in the summer holidays so we are off to a caravan to teach them how to have fun regardless of the weather - although if this weather continues it will be as hot as Spain anyway.

propertyNIGHTmareBEFOREXMAS · 16/07/2013 10:39

Yanbu. I love a uk holiday cottage.

livinginwonderland · 16/07/2013 10:41

I hate things like camping/caravanning because you have to clean up/cook and everything just as you would at home (probably more so because you have less space) and I just don't find it relaxing, so I wouldn't really consider that to be a "proper holiday".

But you can have proper holidays in the UK. They're what you make of it, I guess.

lynniep · 16/07/2013 10:41

A proper holiday for me is somewhere I go for more than a weekend that is not home.

In my head, but perhaps not logically, its also somewhere that has good weather (so please please stay sunny in Dorset all next week LOL)

It isn't necessarily abroad (I haven't been abroad since we moved back from Oz in '06)

A great holiday would be one where I didn't have to cook or clean up, but I'm be waiting a long time if I wait for that to happen. I have young boys I dont have vast amounts to spend (sub 1k once a year)..

LaurieFairyCake · 16/07/2013 10:44

I also holiday in the UK but it isn't as much of a holiday as:

  1. Sitting beside a pool and having someone bring you drinks and then mooching along to a restaurant where people bring you food

And

  1. Being somewhere where English isn't the first language and the cultural things to do are different

I love my Uk holidays but I'm not kidding myself that it's the same as abroad cos its not. Equally good in some respects but not the same.

EllaFitzgerald · 16/07/2013 10:46

I think a proper holiday is any time I don't have to go to work! You're definitely not BU, some of my favourite places in the world are just a few hours drive away.

MarmaladeTwatkins · 16/07/2013 10:48

YABU

It has not been a proper holiday for unless I have had lobster shoulders, blocked a toilet up by putting loo roll down it when you are supposed to bin it or can jump into a swimming pool without getting hypothermia.

Woodhead · 16/07/2013 10:51

I love UK holidays and not having to fly and traipse through airports (have enough of that for work).

This year I've had 2 weeks in a cottage in the Hebrides and another 2 weeks hiking in the North West (of Scotland). Both were most definitely "proper" holidays.

YANBU

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/07/2013 10:51

But just because you hire a cottage which happens to have a kitchen doesn't mean you have to cook though, do you!? It just means you have the option to cook. That's my take and I swear by it. Grin I find that more relaxing than a hotel where I'm permanently worried that the kids are making too much noise etc etc.

TSSDNCOP · 16/07/2013 10:53

YANBU if that's what you like.

But honestly, I love a forrin holiday. I am presently prostrate in glorious sun two feet away from the pool and a handsome be-shorted chap has just handed me an ice cold drink.

It's marv, not least of all because in forrin lands they know the recipe for ice.

valiumredhead · 16/07/2013 11:22

We are staying in a premier -get meWink -converted barn this year in the UK. Dish washer etc for break fast things and well eat out every night. What's not relaxing about that? I can't wait!

valiumredhead · 16/07/2013 11:23

We'll

Bonsoir · 16/07/2013 11:24

Holidays can take many shapes and forms.

Including sending your family away for a week and staying at home on your own!

specialsubject · 16/07/2013 11:26

a holiday is when you are not working. It 'counts' if you are in the back garden.

abroad does have a higher chance of sun and warmth. That's all.

a lifetime of things to see and do in the UK.

TravelinColour · 16/07/2013 11:28

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Mamafratelli · 16/07/2013 11:31

It's a different sort of holiday. If they are used to all inclusive lie on a sunbed next to a pool for two weeks then its very different.

Similarly if they like going to new countries to see new things, meet people from different cultures then its very different.

Personally I like holidays in uk and abroad. Greedy.

Bowlersarm · 16/07/2013 11:31

It all depends on whether the sun is she is shining in the uk.

If it is, all is well with holidaying here. If it isn't then I'm sorry but I don't think of it as a proper holiday because you have to keep thinking of indoor things to do, and there are only so many times in a week you can go to the cinema.

gintastic · 16/07/2013 11:34

Nope, all our holidays are UK as we simply don't have the money for anything else. And with 3 under 6, I quite prefer being 3 hours drive from home if it all goes pear shaped rather than a long flight/airport wait. North Norfolk, Gower, Lleyn Peninsula, Bakewell, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, New Forest, North York Moors...

valiumredhead · 16/07/2013 11:37

Bonsoir-I like your thinking, and it's very true!

valiumredhead · 16/07/2013 11:38

Good weather doesn't equate holiday to me.

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