incredibly boring and petty but who is bu.

[paddleduck]

I'll try to be brief.

We are on holiday with DH and ds around 2 hrs away from home. We are with my brother and his wife and dd.

( we don't like the location, didn't need to holiday in half term but had to because brother is a head teacher) so has been an expensive holiday for us.

We are due to go home Tuesday (7 days in total) have been sharing a caravan. .We are massively under each others feet and tensions running high because their dd is treated and acts like a spoilt so and so

We want to go home. Massively had enough. I'm on the verge of tears constantly.

But ds is having a whale of a time (4) and I feel we should suck it up for his sake. DH thinks we should just go.. he'll be fine etc.

Ah it's your h that's desperate to break free and run is it?

Yeah I do sympathise - our experience was 4 days at a music festival with friends and their son. I still shudder when I think about him it.

Blame it on the weather and go home.

Why didn't your brother and family go somewhere on their own? A head teacher can afford more than a week in ashared UK caravan though I can quite understand that it turned out expensive for you and DH.

I say suck it up for DS and never do it again.

I LOVE caravans.
I have one.
I have to work an extra day a week just to pay for it.

BUT I only stay in it for 5 days at the most at one time.
And that is just with my OH and my DCs.

If you stay in a 'van you have to get out. Every day and for most of the day. Just because it is a bit like a house doesn't mean it is a house.

You wouldn't go camping and sit in the tent all day.

So if you decide to stay plan some stuff and get out as much as you can.

For things to be that bad, I can't understand that you didn't have an idea that it might be challenging to share a caravan with them in the first place You must know how they parent / what you can tolerate.
Why not suggest a couple of days out (even if you take the niece one day and they take your ds the other) without the other couple - sell it as a 'lovely child free day for each couple'.
It does seem a shame to end a holiday early, but I'm inclined to agree it seems odd that 2 couples - with one of the people on a HTs salary isn't able to afford something a bit more spacious than a shared caravan.

I would spend tomorrow away from them all day. Leave first thing and come back at bedtime. You leave Tuesday anyway.

If you normally get on i would suck it up amd the four adults sit down and make up tomight.
But your oP is dripping with "issues" tbh. So its hard to see whether these are just holiday proximity problems or things you should have been aware of before holidaying with them.

I would stay.
But never, ever, ever holiday with family again.What wer you thinking?

Why are you spending all your time with them? Bugger off out for the day! Every day! And let DS play with his cousin at teatime.

I would never ever agree to share a caravan with another family - even if they were related to us!
No way Jose!

Too close for comfort.

We are home.

We usually all get on very well, it's been a learning curve. We like to be out n about all day every day- they don't, and for some reason we just went along with what they wanted all week long. Ds shouted 'hooray!' When we got home.. so guess it says it all.

We'll be booking a few days away before the summers done to make it up to him.

Never ever ever share a caravan. I would struggle to share one with Brad Pitt, one per family is a must though I am guessing you won't be going with these again.

You have learned the golden rule of never sharing a caravan for more than one night

Harold, absoloutely not.