To think there's no need to eat out every night of a holiday?

[JQuinnS]

We're going away soon and are staying in a resort/hotel that has a small kitchen in the room. We have decided to not do all inclusive/eat out at the town. There's no reason to not cook something at least a couple of needs. Is there really a need to eat out every night? Not being arsey, genuinely wondering. AIBU?

Like my grandparents used to go on a sun holiday for 8 weeks in summer and would only eat out 2 nights a week, treating it as if they were at home

I love to eat out on holiday wouldn't dream of all inclusive

It's up to you and what you want. We personally would eat out every day on holiday as it's part of the holiday experience. Depends on holiday type, finances and grumpy toddlers.

What a weird thread. Of course there is no actual need to eat out every night. Or any night. Or go on holiday.

People do what they want to do and budget allows. I think making yourself the Holiday Police is BU.

Clearly there is no need or law that says once you're on holiday you have to eat out. It is simoly preference and budget.

Holidays for me don't involve going to the supermarket and shopping, cooking and then cleaning up. So yes, we eat out. Because we wish to.

I love eating out on hols but also finding a nice local supermarket / grocers etc and stock up on cold stuff like pps have mentioned, due to budget or just feeling stuffed! Bread, meat, cheese, salad bucks fizz for breakfast

I don't much like going out to eat. I can't eat very much at a time, so restaurants aren't much fun. When I'm the one picking a place to stay, I always get a small kitchen and stock it with boiled eggs, yogurts, fruit, cheeses, french bread, olives, and just have myself a mini feast a few times a day. I don't know if I'd cook on vacation, but I rarely do anyway.

My boyfriend, however, loves eating at restaurants, but when I go with him it just feels like we're wasting the whole vacation eating.

I enjoy cooking on holiday. I like going to local markets, finding different ingredients that I might not get at home, and making a meal out of them. But, I love to cook anyway. DH thinks it's a bit strange, but eats it lol.

We are all different. I wouldn't go on a holiday that wasn't All Inclusive. And even then we eat out a couple of times a week.

The only time I have 'cooked' on holiday is when DD was very young and had a couple of days puking - we had a small kitchenette and I made beans on toast for DH and I. That's the extent of my cooking on holiday.

I worked in hospitality for 15 years so I tend to make better food than most restaurants and cafes. If I travel to somewhere in Australia (home country) I will take a kit of condiments, herbs etc and def cook. I find it easy and pleasurable. Then I save my coin for really nice restaurants or activities or cocktails which cost a bloody fortune I get much more annoyed at paying restaurant prices for substandard food when I can quickly make better for myself!

When I travel to Asia the food is generally brilliant and delicious and super cheap (I love street food stalls!) so I don't cook. In Europe it's 50/50 - love to eat out but to afford to get to Europe is expensive in itself so picnic-style food and platters helps the bottom line!

I also find it romantic when staying in fancy cabins to make a delish meal for my partner (sometimes while dressed up ifkwim) or him for me - we take turns

Why would you be being arsey to ask?

I've go coeliac disease and so many stupid allergies and intolerances that eating out is almost impossible. So we fretting much have to go SC. I would LOVE o not have to cook every night. Plus, when the kids were little, sc was easier.

All other things being equal, I would probably eat out most nights, but a good couple of evenings at least make something at the appt, like you said in OP, so yes, I agree with you. Finally got there.

The little kitchens you get in apartments are normally not well enough equipped meaning attempting to cook can be more hassle than it's worth.

I prefer to go self catering on holiday. We eat breakfast and sometimes lunch in the apartment. We buy bread, milk, cheese, ham and cereal locally. We eat out in the evenings.

We usually go self catering and have one meal out a day, and have a light meal in villa (generally tapas style/bread/pasta). Don't like all inclusive as prefer to try out different places.

We only go all inclusive, suits us with young children asking for drinks and ice cream all day, and always something at the buffet or a la carte restaurants. I don't go on holiday to do any type of housework including cooking. When the day are older I'm looking forward to taking them further a field and trying local cuisine.

The room might have a kitchen but does it have a table and chairs? Otherwise you end up sitting on the bed to eat.

Where you have a little kitchen it is nice to be able to do your own breakfast, or a packed lunch snack or 2 to take out with you.

also don't necessarily need to cook - salads and cooked chicken from a supermarket, takeaway pizza/whatever is the local speciality etc are much easier when you have the equipment to eat them with.

I like to eat out on holiday. It's a break from the mundane.

It wouldn't be a holiday for me if I had to cook - even if for just a few nights.

I don't cook on holiday.

I don't want to be cleaning sinks or washing dishes.

All inclusive is brilliant no lugging heavy stuff from supermarkets, wall to wall food/snacks/ice cream/ coffee.
Fantastic for kids, great for parents.
And cheap enough to still eat out every other day.

It depends. We enjoyed mixing it up a bit. Staying in gites we'd eat out on a quiet mid-week evening but stay in and cook something simple at weekends. Picnics at mid-day.

Simple cooking in a different place doesn't feel too much like hard work and shopping in different places such as a big hypermarche or even better, a local market makes food shopping a bit more interesting.

I don't normally cook on holiday - I find cooking food at home bad enough!

However, i'm away for 3 weeks later in the year and have booked a holiday flat for the last week as by then I think some boring cereal and pasta/pesto will be very welcome. And we'll all need to use the washing machine after almost two weeks of only staying in each place for a night.

No it's perfectly possible to cook in a tiny apartment every day IF YOU WANT TO. It's also acceptable to eat out, IF YOU WANT TO. There is no "right" and "wrong".

When we go on self-catering holidays both in the UK and abroad we do a mixture, eating out, barbecues, takeaways, sometimes I'll cook but it's easy cooking like chicken kievs and chips or something else you bung in the oven - I'm not up for whipping up complex three cousrse meals on holidays.

Disagree too the all-inclusive food is crap, it is i'm sure in some places, others are excellent. We did AI in Greece in October and the food was fabulous - although some guests were complaining because there wasn't enough beige food like pies, nuggets and chips. There was however loads of Greek food, salads, fish, about 20 kinds of bread - was excellent.

We always go self catering / villa (had an awful all inclusive experience 15y ago - never again!!)

We have breakfast and lunch in but eat out in the evening. I am happy to knock up salads / sandwiches / pasta but I would not be cooking a full meal.

I generally cook on holiday, at least some of the time. But yy to it being personal preference. I don't really see cooking as a chore tbh and I get bored eating out all the time.

There is no need to - but I absolutely would!