To think a holiday is more important than sky

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Chatting to hubby earlier - I was saying I'd love to save up a bit each month so in a few years we can take the children abroad. We have very little excess money but I'd love to give them an experience and some memories. we holiday in the uk every year (center parcs out of term) but would love my children to experience a holiday abroad in a few years. Hubs is in a strop because he would rather upgrade to sky I q or something - when it comes out - we already fork out for a full sky package for the football and that is enough let alone adding more on the bill. Aibu?

I think he sounds pretty selfish. It sounds like you've already got plenty of SKY features; spend the rest of your money on a holiday. Best of both worlds. And I speak as someone who is quite a big consumer of telly; I love it and appreciate the choices we have these days.

I don't know really.
I don't really love going on holiday as much as others seem to. It's ok, we have a nice time but I can never shake the feeling of the five six or seven grand (there are six of us) we are spending on a week or two that could be being saved for the DC to buy a house or go to university.
We can get the same holiday feeling through a sunny day out at the beach for the cost of a picnic and a few ice creams.
I remember holidays we had as a child though they aren't my best memories. I also remember the feeling of being the only one without sky/cable or a video player.

Iggi, I use Brittany ferries a few times a year. During school holidays I have paid upwards of £800 just for crossings

Not comparing it to centre parks, never been, don't know how much it is, but I am always a bit taken aback at ferry crossings now.

Op, it's a tough one but you seem to have found a way to make it work for you.
We have the full whack virgin multiroom (4 boxes) with all channels and subscriptions, Apple TV with now tv and Netflix subscriptions. Dp loves telly, he loves films and sports ahand enjoys watching the games on tv.

If I had to choose, I'd probably scrap holidays to have a nicer day to day standard of living, although for me that wouldn't involve anything to do with tv, I never watch it! Holidays with young children I find not as enjoyable as anticipated.

go camping and do both.... center parks? Loadsamoney.

Iggli - but if you go to a gite in northern France with a big garden in January and it pisses down and is freezing you can't spend all day at the in door pool with waves and slides etc that you can at CP.

That's the other problem with the types of holidays which are as cheap as off peak CP, they wouldn't be suitable for some people. It's not worth taking my dc to somewhere which doesn't have certain things because we would all be miserable. We went to Majorca last year, it cost us 2k and we had a shit time. We had a way better time at CP for 500. So the only way i would go abroad atm is if i could get a CP style holiday abroad. The pool would have to be specifically shaped, we would only stay on a ground floor and even then never have patio doors open etc. A lot of these things you cannot guarantee with holidays abroad and you would have to pay way more for a like for like just in a different location. My dc are too small for enjoying the sun and if you have dc that need constant entertaining, somewhere without those facilities is exhausting and boring and just not worth going to.

I hope when the boys are school age they may be better, but atm CP is the best option to save everyones sanity.

Sky are still phoning me (got a call today) to try to entice me back with 'an even better offer'. I don't want to resubscribe though, even for free.

I live for holidays (abroad) even if you book a year in advance and then have time to save, as long as you know its coming you can daydream away and get excited...look at pics of the hotel/villa/local restaurants etc to always cheer you up! I'd choose this over Sky any day, free view channels are fine (saying that as a Sky Customer) I could happily sacrifice this.

Holiday.

YANBU, I disconnected the to 8 years ago and have never looked back. If I add up what I have saved on satellite tv, it's staggering!

You do actually have to go as far as giving your months notice, the people on the cancellation line only offer a max of c.20% off. However, two minutes after I had done so I had a 50% offer on my sky home page. You can chicken out during your months notice. Or just go on live chat and see
What you get. Just cancelled my package (movies and box sets) and live chat got me 50% off and £100 credit with no new contract, so I will essentially get it free for for months, then 50% off until I decide to do the merry dance again

Thank you, this has been very useful.

I'd rather have the holiday and I"m sure the children would too

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