to feel a little sad

[TweedleDi]

that we have never been able to take our children away on holiday, even a UK one? The money simply has never been there.

What about camping?
Or a £29 travel lodge room

Or make a tent in the garden if you have one

We often just go & stay with family because we're skint too

Sucks though

Felt the same as you tho luckily live near a beach. Mine were 13, 10 and 6 before we had our 1st proper holiday. Cheapy to Spain. But they did have wonderful days out which they still remember...and I'm not talking lots of money...We took a picnic to the woods...found a stream and stayed all day...we were only talking about this yesterday. Agree with PP and we had a tent in the garden all summer....ad hoc sleepovers...even I slept there and I didn't like camping..great. I am one of 5 and very rarely had holidays....none of my siblings feels hard done by. I remember the days out tho.....mostly open areas...Bushy Park, Oxshot Woods, Virginia Waters....If we did have a holiday it was camping...I remember washing in a stream...peeing in a bucket and cooking on a camp fire....all good memories..Borrow a tent and find a cheap campsite...No frills....just having a laugh.

First time I went on hoilday is when I saved and paid for a weekend away with friends.

Don't feel bad, I don't think I missed out as there was lots of day trips.

First world problem?

If you can feed, clothe your DC and keep them safe and love them that is more important isn't it?

There are children in many parts of the world who don't have even the basics

Can you borrow a tent?

We haven't either. We're lucky in that both sets ofg parents live in nice parts of the country and we get to visit there, thanks to their generously paying travel. Biut I do feel a bit sad that we've never had a family holiday (even camping costs some money to pitch a tent, petrol to get there and some extra while you're there and it's just not there at the moment).

Of course it is a first world problem. So, it isn't reasonable to feel a little sad..?

Thanks to others for constructive thoughts :-)

One year we had no money and so had a holiday at home.
I saved our clubcard vouchers for days out, we got heritage vouchers I think. We also used them for one big day out(theme park).
We looked for things to do in our local area that we normally dont have time to think about, free museums etc.
We took the beach toys to the park for a day.
I made a weeks worth of shopping money last for an extra day in the months leading up to our "holiday" this meant there was enough camping holiday food(tins, dried etc) so I didnt have to shop that week. This left money for icecreams, entrance fees to swimming pool etc.
We had a great time.
I usually do this when we camp as well. Between xmas and holiday I buy one item a week for holiday. Between holiday and xmas I buy one treat for xmas. It works for us.

Until the age of 10 my holiday each year was going to visit my gran in Anstruther. When she died we holidayed in London for a week. We then had four years where we were fortunate enough to visit Spain, Tunisia, Ibiza and Majorca because my mum's partner was in a good job and we had more money. The last of these was in 1982!

Since then we've holidayed in the Uk mainly in cheap accommodation with six overseas visits as a family and for the last two years the annual cricket tour to Berkshire has been my holiday! We aren't poor, but hols abroad are not a top priority for us, we're happy just to be somewhere that's not home for a week.

Yup. Us too. DS is desperate to go on an aeroplane. I know they're dead boring once you're on but it makes me very sad that it's unlikely he will until he's much much older

gobbin .i went to cellardyke caravan park everyyear as a child 70s/80s.and do you know this is will always be my favourite place to holiday .only about 2 hr drive from my home .i went last year and it is know a housing estate god i could have cried .

aprilanne we may have passed each other in the 70s or seen each other in the Anstruther Fish Bar lol. There have been a lot of new houses up out of the back of Anstruther and Cellardyke it's a shame. My gran was born in Cellardyke and my mum went to school there, east Fife is a lovely part of the world.