To think there is nothing at all wrong with not going abroad on holiday

[manchestermummy]

That's it really. We love to go abroad but can't afford it every year, so this year we're off to the South West for a week. We're really looking forward to the break and the dc are excited about it too.

I am sick to death of people looking all when I say where we are off too. I am sick of MIL people telling us how awful the journey will be (we've done further before and drove across half of fecking Canada when dd1 was 20 mo). I am sick of my parents banging on and on about their recent 5k cruise (yes I am jealous) before asking if our static caravan has electricity and running water ffs.

I am sick of the media telling me I am going on a staycation. It's a holiday.

Is it just me? I am starting to feel really down about it because people are telling me how awful it's going to be.

We're just back from a long weekend camping in St. Andrews. Had a great time and the kids loved it

We usually go abroad every second year. Just back from a two-week holiday which took in Alton Towers, Salisbury (visiting my db and family including my new niece), a week in Cornwall, and a stop on the way home for a couple of days with another db and family (including even newer nephew!).

It was fantastic and a real holiday (it's pretty far away from Glasgow :) )

We often go to the Outer Hebrides too (used to live there) and are doing that soon (dh got a magical unexpected chance to have an extra week off!!!).

The first foreign holiday our family went on when I was small was to Sweden when I was 17. Didn't hurt us at all, though all of my siblings also love travelling now. It's not that we're not adventurous (in fact we backpacked round Central America for 3 weeks when dc were all preschool and dd2 only 16 months), just that a holiday doesn't have to be exotic to be a great holiday.

The UK is fantastic. We have been on lovely holidays to Dorset x 2, Cornwall, Norfolk, York and Suffolk in the last few years and that is without driving too far. I'm hoping that we will get to Northumberland next year. I struggle with the idea of spending the cost of a week's cottage on flights and ruining the end of a holiday by flying and going through airports.

We live in the south west and it can be bloody hard to tear ourselves away for a holiday.
In nice weather it's like being on a permanent holiday at home

'Main holiday' must be a relatively modern concept. And many people don't have multiple holidays. There are people who don't get any holidays.

YANBU - millions of tourists get off at Heathrow every year to holiday in the UK. In most other nations it's perfectly normal to take your summer holiday in your own country.

South west England is one of the most beautiful and interesting parts of the world. Have fun.

There is much to explore in the Uk. I am 57 but still have places on my uk wish list to visit.
My grown up childrens holiday memories are all of uk holidays not the ludicrously expensive disney usa we did one year which was a catalogue of troubles or the duff caravan park in France.
No flight stress, no silly travel times, no worrying what the fussy ones will eat. When your children are grown ups they can fund their own overseas holidays!
Little childrens ideas of holidays are very simplistic, they dont care where they go.

I've only ever been 'abroad' once in my life. Well twice if you count Dublin. My daughter who is 11 has never left the UK. I won't fly so we holiday here. We like it. She can go abroad when older if she wants.

Stuff what 'other people' think. The south west is beautiful, you'll love it.

I remember in my late teens friends saying that we're going to go travelling to see the world and thinking but you've never been to Scotland... Or Wales... Or even the Peak District or dartmoor or the fens or the broads or the Cotswolds...

Kids are 7 and 9. We did one two week holiday in Europe with DD and have done a couple of trips to eurodisney but otherwise always holiday in UK by choice. So many lovely places, no language issues, pleasant temperatures (usually!), pack it all in the car instead of into one suitcase each, lovely scenery, historical places to visit, kids trails/ quizzes in English that keep ours amused at many attractions. We had lots of foreign holidays pre kids and probably will have a handful in the next few years but we love staying in the UK and have 3-4 holidays or short breaks here every year. Be proud of your choice!

It's only because the English love to knock anything English, including our own country.
It's fab going anywhere in Britain because it's easy and gob smackingly different to your bit of the world.
However being jealous of the cruise would indicate YABU. The nature if the beast means anything you do abroad just sounds better. And if you are talking canter Parcs a holiday abroad is cheaper.
Personally though children remember the easy stress free holidays. The agony of late passports ,the endless clothes buying and the over packing mean abroad is less fun than trooping to a nearby beach for a weekend.

YANBU

Of course it's a holiday. I've been on some great UK holidays and there is a lot to see and do in this country, Lake District, Peak District, Scotland, wales, Cornwall.. Many more. I don't understand why anyone would be snobbish about a uk hol. Enjoy yourselves!

We have to go abroad to visit family. If our families were here i would have a uk holiday.
I agree that there is snobbery towards those who dont go abroad and i think it is very unfair to say that their dcs dont get 'cultural experiences' etc (i 've heard that).

OP if anyone says to you that you are missing 'holiday food', tell them you are going to Lidl. They have Spanish Week. It must be better than the hotel food.

We could afford to go abroad but are off to Northumbria instead!!!
Love this country in the summer

YABU...Stop listening to the media if it gets you down seriously for a while and in my opinion your parents seem to be concerned and supportive though this has been overshadowed by the negative thoughts..

There is nothing at all wrong with not going abroad on holiday; no-one else's business.

I didn't go on a holiday abroad till I was 21 I think. Though I enjoyed my childhood holidays to Butlins/ Haven etc I enjoy my holidays abroad far more now and would be gutted if I didn't have at least one Greek fix a year. I do however visit different places in the UK a couple of times a year too; there is so much to see and do here and I like to make an effort to see it.

We live in the SW and are off on holiday in the SW next week, despite offers of a free breach villa in Spain, so we must be mad too!

Gah, beach....

Yanbu, I love holidaying in the UK. My holiday this year was a lovely rented cottage in Devon, beautiful beaches, lovely moors, fish and chips. No foreign currency, airports, planes and jet lag. Plus it was much cheaper than abroad, so sone nice meals out too. What's not to love about holidaying in the UK?!

I am just down the road from Northumberland and a short drive from Whitley Bay and Tynemouth. So much lovely landscape up here and loads to do. The weather is a bit hit or miss though so be prepared

I like to go abroad for holidays. But there has been quite a few years when we've not been able to afford it. And anyway nobody can guarantee a good holiday - some are dire at home or abroad. Hope you have a nice time.

I'm on holiday now living in my own house :) After 14 years of Army life moving and packing I think we are now nesting, wherever we lived we made the most of it, we lived in France, Dorset, Wiltshire, Wales and Yorkshire and we had a ball. Now that I've moved home to my own house, the very thought of packing and going on holiday gives me the willies!

I don't see how a days packing, 4 hour drive and going to the beach every day is a staycation - its completely different from what I do at home, even on a week off.

North east coast in general is lovely; I'm County Durham and live right near the sea and lovely coastal walks. Strangely enough when I go to Greece I tend to stay in mountain village-type places a bit inland.

Also reminded by this conversation than I am meant to be arranging a weekend in Northumberland for the beginning of August, but had entirely forgotten about it!