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?

Altheodor i’ve Been to 30 countries on 7 continents- EVERYWHERE IS THE SAME!!!

The bit that pisses me off the main at is deciding what to take for a family of 4 and there’s always something you forget like small sharp scissors for your mole hair or the right type of ear buds for your child’s waxy ears. We’re headed to London for this spring break- can’t be arsed! Looking forward to the sleeper train home!

MMcanny with respect, that is bollocks. It’s not even the same in two UK counties, never mind different continents.
And whoever said about spending all the time on ‘the khazi’ I’ve never had a stimnpach upset on holiday and I’ve been to many of the usual suspects. I’m not sure why people worry about this in, say, France or Spain.

What a sorry world to live in where people have no desire to visit, learn about, appreciate the huge variety of culture and tradition and history in our planet.
One of the best things my parents did for us was show us the world and what's out there. I couldn't imagine not giving my children the same opportunity.

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!
What utter rubbish. I've been taking my kids long haul since they were toddlers. It's wonderful seeing things through their eyes, especially places I've been before. If it's a new place for all of us, it's exciting discovering it together. Taking toddler DS to Disneyland (California) for the first time was such a wonderful experience, and quite hilarious as to what he found interesting compared to what my adult self had always found interesting.

I love all the planning and travelling. The only part I hate is the unpacking at the end when we get home.

If people find a particular holiday style/location so horrible, don't go back there! The number of people who continually do X style of holiday year after year and then complain about it makes my eyes roll.

Funnily enough one of my and the kids favourite things to do on holiday is go to the supermarket! Seyeing different products, trying to use the language,
Mine too! It's always an eye opener when I see how much they charge for products that have been imported from my country to the holiday country. Either astronomically high, or unbelievably cheap.

I personally don't count it as a holiday if it's in the uk
As I don't live in the UK, it's definitely a holiday for me (when I visit). My UK friends tell me I've seen more of it than they have, but then I suppose there are visitors to mine who've seen more of where I live than I have.