To hate going on holiday.

[TheMasterNotMargarita]

First you have to decide where to go. Research flights/accommodation/vicinity to places of interest bar/beach etc. Tedious.

Then you have to pack. DH does the actual packing but I always have to organise most of it. Which is actually the best part for me, I quite like packing .

Then you have to travel. If you stay in the UK you have several hours trapped in a car with your nearest and dearest. Before you spend the duration of the holiday with them every waking moment.

If you travel abroad you are in enforced close proximity to other people. And I don't really like flying.

Then you spend all your time trying to amuse your children without their toys, trying to get them to sleep in a strange place. They are hot, the food is weird, the bed smells different.....

I like warm weather. I enjoy being on holiday. I just CBA with all the effort. I'd like a Narnia style wardrobe that I could walk into and appear out the other side somewhere warm.and sunny already in my shorts and t-shirt.

DH loves a holiday. I told him to go without me. (But he can take the kids 🤣).

IANBU am I?

Definitely not just you, OP!

I just find holidays.... inconvenient with 3 year old DD. She’s a wonderful and easy child but it’s just bloody inconvenient and no bed is ever as comfy as your own!

Love travel!

Don't like paying heaps for a room or a house that is poor compared to my own though. But we are out and about from morning to night so would never spend a lot on just somewhere to sleep.

Can't wait until my kids grow up and me and DH can backpack around again!

I don't know where people are going that is "just the same as the UK". Benidorm maybe?

Anyway, I love being on holiday. We have done all sorts of holidays from self-catering to all inclusive and they've all been great. Experiencing new things and seeing new places is one of life's great joys. Seeing things on telly or Google Earth just aren't the same at all.

SIL is a bit like this, her "comfort zone" is tiny, she never travels more than about 5 miles from where she was born and raised. Doesn't take holidays. Doesn't have days out. Just wants to sit at home and watch telly. She is the most boring person to be around as she has nothing to talk about.

Never understand people who don't want to see as much of the world as possible. I personally don't count it as a holiday if it's in the uk.

Oh the irony, so I guess you haven't seen much of the UK then?

I love holidays OP, DH is self employed and wfh, it's the only time he actually properly gets away from work.

Holidays with a young child were proper crap IMO, though we had some great moments - Lake District mainly.

Getting significantly better now ds so much older,packs for himself, helpful and organised. He carries my bag these days.

Tbh if you're going on holidays that you don't like, it's not surprising you don't enjoy them. Do holidays you like. What about Dubrovnik but staying near the sea?

She is the most boring person to be around as she has nothing to talk about. - But surely holidays aren't the only thing to talk about and hearing about other peoples holidays bores people to tears most of the time anyway.

Of course you don't just talk abotu holidays - it's wider life experience. But if you never do anything or go anywhere then you have nothing to talk about apart from Gogglebox and the soaps.

I love a UK holiday. Admittedly, although British I don't currently live in the UK, so things like farm parks, Forestry Commission and Paulton's Park are things of absolute wonder for my kids. It comes down to a change of scenery I think.

My kids are 14 months apart and we have always gone abroad.
Yes it has often been exhausting but I look back on the funny times aswell and the memories we have are priceless.
We have a holiday home now so lots of home comforts when we are there. I can't gave a good holiday without a comfortable bed!

I LOVE holidays. Choosing the holiday is fun, and then the excitement. Love love love an excuse to make lists, buying holiday clothes, and packing. Satisfying! Enjoy the airport too, more excitement and a cocktail! Plane is for for DC - then sit and watch Peppa without interruptions and a little nap, bliss.
Then the actual holiday! Warm evenings, no routine, swimming, walks and wandering, good food and drink... dc happy and content, ice cream, swimming, playing all day and sleeps in the pram in the warm evening air... ahhh what’s not to love!?

I love planning holidays. I have ours planned down to the last detail for the next five years. Being a holiday planner, or even better, tour guide, is my absolute dream job.

Ooo, yes, the airport, so exciting. We get there like four hours early (or even the night before and stay in the airport hotel) it’s so exciting to sit with a drink watching the planes and waiting till your flight is called.

And, there is literally no better feeling than being so hot you feel like you’re melting and sliding into a lovely cool pool. Pure bliss.

Holidays with children young enough to play with toys aren't really holidays. They are just hard work.

We recently had our first family holiday abroad (3DDs) and I spent the whole time stressed. The children were jet lagged (only by three hours, but it made a difference!), I spent a lot of time telling them to stop playing next to the pool...you know the story. DP was wonderful, taking over far more than 50%, but I just couldn't relax.

This year we are going back to our usual camping. I'll be so chilled, camping with kids just suits me far better!

YABU.., can't wait til my next holiday.

Sun, sea & sand that's all I want.

I didn't go abroad until I was 24 so now I really appreciate foreign holidays.

Yanbu my husband and I deceive it as
Same shit different place .

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Yanbu. I can only manage a week at most and often come home early, even if it means paying more to rearrange transport. I like my home, my work, I dislike travelling, airports, flying, coaches, heat, boring beaches and stressful buffets where I pig out on stuff I don't even want. I could go on. I do it for the kids and put a smile on, but will always do a short break if poss and much prefer going to places where we know people to hang out with. At least then you see some of the real place not just the tourist bits. Although I agree that people are much the same the world over and once you've seen one temple/mountain/desert they're just so much set dressing. I know people are stimulated in different ways though and get a real bang out of looking a views etc.

So we seem to have reached the conclusion from this thread that holidays are great until you have kids and from then on are absolute hell! Currently trying for a baby so will make sure to get maximum enjoyment out of the holidays we have planned this year!

YANBU. The idea of a holiday is often a lot better than the reality of it (in my experience anyway). I hate flying, get sunburnt even with factor 50 on, always seem to get food poisoning no matter how careful I am, always sleep badly in any bed that isn’t my own and always feel overwhelmed by having to spend every waking moment with other people. One sort of holiday i’d Definitely enjoy would be checking myself into a luxury hotel (on my own) and ordering lots of room service, watching films and sleeping. I’d also get the therapists to my room to give me massages.
I’ve done a few UK holidays recently and have found them more enjoyable but I still always look forward to getting home again

Daisy holidays to interesting places are fab with tweens and teens. Loved seeing the looks on my girls faces when we went to Iceland. They love camping and hanging out with their friends and are much more independent. They would hate. 2 week beach holiday tho so we jus5 make sure we go places that interest everyone.

I love going on holiday - so much so that we go most weekends! We bought a touring caravan. It is like taking your own hotel room away with you (it is only a few years old so has proper central heating, proper bathroom, good kitchen etc..) This means the kid doesn't have to get used to sleeping somewhere odd, I can cook - if I want to, we always know what we are getting! We keep specific toys and craft stuff in the caravan that she doesn't have at home so there is something fresh to do. We have a TV and DVD player for cosy nights on the sofa. Last weekend we went somwhere about 20 mins away and stayed alongside a canal. It piddled down with rain, DD fell in the mud in the rain and we spent Saturday evening watching Beauty and the Beast on DVD. It was fab! This weekend we are staying only 10 mins from home but this place has a great park, restaurant and bar, small pool and room for DD to get her bike and scooter out in relative safety. Really looking forward to it. Most of the stuff stays in the caravan so the only packing is a weekends worth of clothes and any fresh food we want.

Don't go then. Leaves more room for rest of us.
Planning. I love researching and planning, it's a great distraction and build up.
Packing. Bit depressing when I look at my holiday wardrobe but also builds the anticipation.
Travel. Screw the uk! I like flying. I always take toys for the kids. Its fun it's Novell.
When your away is new culture new food warm weather someone else doing the cooking and cleaning no work. It's brilliant.
Coming home sucks. That's time to book the next one!

We're massive cruise fans. Especially the no-fly ones. We turn up, leave our car at the ship which is then parked for us, check in and that's it- you're on holiday. Wonderful food, a different port most days, pools, spa, kids clubs etc. On a cruise I've never felt taking young DC was hard work. On return just collect your car and drive home.
We have a holiday cottage in a NP in the UK which we go to most weekends but we don't do self catering we eat out for all meals and drinks at night. There are so many nice cafés, pubs and restaurants in the area that there is no need for cooking or washing up.