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Anyone else hate going on holiday

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Metoodear · 03/08/2018 10:56

Just that people think it’s the location or the cost you could literally have me at a 5 star hotel and it would not matter

I hate the heat
The packing
My husband swearing while he puts the tent up
The drive over
The drive back
The heat i it’s 38 here and I have been sick because twice it’s so hot
I just don’t enjoy going on holiday never have

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HolidayModeMum · 03/08/2018 15:36

I love going on holiday but I spend a long time planning to make sure we get exactly what suits us.
A week camping in 30 degree heat, no way!!! I would rather stay home.
Like to stay somewhere away fro tourist areas and enjoy cooking while away, my idea if heaven would be someone else's idea of hell.
You are going on the wrong holiday!!!!

BitchQueen90 · 03/08/2018 15:44

I'd hate camping.

I go on holidays just me and DS and I love them, I hate going with other adults to be honest.

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Metoodear · 03/08/2018 15:47

To those people keep on telling me it’s the type of holiday I assure you it’s not

I have been on loads cruises
Farmhouse holidays
Rented cottages
B and B

I just hate going away I also find it really rather boaring

I hate hate hate hot weather I can’t stay in shallots because I can’t stabd using things that are not my own

Oh and then their are the racists often when travelling are holiday is accompanied by a bit of racism

This year I was reffred to as a dark lady by some tipsy lady by the barr

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Metoodear · 03/08/2018 15:49

We’re often one of a very few mixed raced families were ever we go

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SlartiAardvark · 03/08/2018 15:52

Nope!!

Absolutely love it!!

A week away seeing things & going to places we don't normally.

Leaving the kids to sort themselves while we chillax, walking, exploring, seeing new towns, finding new pubs.

Off tomorrow for a week & can't wait!!

RaininSummer · 03/08/2018 15:53

I dont get the fuss about holidays either. Havent been away for more than two days in over twenty years. Maybe if I had loads of time off I would feel differently but I enjoy spending time at home and locally and.using the money for something.nice I can enjoy for more than a week.

Twinkie1 · 03/08/2018 16:05

On way back from airport after 2 weeks 5 star treatment. Am happier than I've been for 2 weeks 😂

LighthouseSouth · 03/08/2018 16:07

OP I also get bored on holiday and also on the rare occasion we've been as a family, get the mixed race comments too.

RaininSummer - you've done better than I have! Agree, it's so expensive and there's a squillion other things I'd rather spend it on - or save it.

MrsLandingham · 03/08/2018 16:18

I woke up this morning happier than I have been all week, because I am flying home today . I think I have got sucked into the, 'but you must go on holiday once a year' mindset, when actually I am perfectly happy at home. This is odd, because I'm usually very good at resisting marketing & advertising. I agree with the PP who said that if someone told her in the run up to a holiday that she didn't have to go, she'd actually be relieved.

toomanycuddlytoys · 03/08/2018 16:34

Yes I hate holidays. Hard work! Having a lovely summer at home

happypoobum · 03/08/2018 16:35

I think some of you are going on holiday

A) in the wrong places
B) with the wrong people

Agreed though - if you don't like being away from home you shouldn't go.

HolidayHate · 03/08/2018 16:36

Yep hate holidays abroad and odd locals...

QueenoftheNights · 03/08/2018 16:47

Me.
I hate sleeping in strange beds and it takes me at least 2 nights to adjust.
I hate the journey by car or whatever, planes and all the airport nonsense.
I like my own home and bed.

SB1189 · 03/08/2018 17:09

It makes me genuinely sad to hear so many people hate holidays. I can’t picture dreading a holiday - I’m always excited weeks in advance. I’ve always had the travel bug though I’ve spent 4 years living abroad in various different places and I’d love to go again.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/08/2018 17:32

I totally agree happypoobum

If I hated holidays I just wouldn't go. Life is too short to spend £££££ doing something you hate. I would be interested to know if it is maily posters with small children who hate holidays, because, quite frankly, it isn't much of a relaxing holiday if you have to keep an eye on babies/toddlers/small children all the time.

I don't understand posters who get bored on holiday. Why would you choose to do something boring? Why not do something that interests you instead? I don't like sandy beaches, so don't choose to spend all my holiday on one. They are aesthetically pleasing, but so impractical. We have just come back from holiday and went to the beach just twice. The rest of the time we swam in the pool or, on one occasion, from a boat.

mastertomsmum · 03/08/2018 17:40

The prep and the journey can be stressful but better the older children get

ExtraFrills · 03/08/2018 17:52

I go abroad occasionally - but its just to experience the new surroundings, culture, etc. I do get a slight thrill out of packing - its like minimalism-gone-wild and living very simply. But I also get exhausted and the faff of packing and unpacking, with 100 ml bottles etc, the air travel, passports, insurance, EC medical card, medicines, blah de blah. So I don't do it very often. It also often proves pretty expensive - even if you try and do it cheaply. At times I have thought I could be in the UK camping (£10-£20 per night) in beautiful countryside, near beautiful beach or mountains, eating amazing food, etc for a tenth of the price. And I've done that, so I know!

And though I do like occasional holidays at home or abroad, I often feel shattered and disorientated after them especially abroad. Though it makes me appreciate home - I usually stop moaning about the UK for a few weeks once I'm back .

Cismyass · 03/08/2018 18:34

I also hate holidays OP I think mostly because i used to hate them ending and having to go home as a child. I holiday as little as humanly possible .

theredjellybean · 03/08/2018 18:44

camping is not a holiday
driving for 6 hrs with a toddler is not a holiday
packing for everyone is not a holiday

I love holidays, but quickly worked out that I ( mummy) needed the holiday ..children's lives are one long holiday imo and always went somewhere i wanted to go and had childcare or activites for them so i got a break.
after several yrs when dexh insisted on cottages in the uk and i spent the holiday doing same shit in different place ..i basically said he could go without me but i was off to a nice sports beach club type holiday with hot and cold running catering and stuff to do for all of us..
we never went anywhere else again.
I also stopped packing for dexh and dds
i would tell them what they needed to put in the case ( not dexh - he is an adult therefore able to do it himself) and left them to it from age 5-6
if we got on holiday and someone had only packed their barbie dress up clothes then tough tits that what you wore...
Dexh once tried saying ' were is my swim trunks' when we arrived...i laughed and asked him how he thought i would know that ? and then wandered off to pool..

If we had done staycation - everyone would have lounged around and i would have ended up doing the same old same old..cooking , cleaning , laundry and trying to organise family days out...no thanks

DollyDayScream · 03/08/2018 22:05

I think that the tent bit is the problem.

spottybetty · 03/08/2018 22:16

Camping is not a holiday! Especially in this heat!

Work out what you want from a holiday. You.

I want a villa with a private pool, a view, air con, good beaches for snorkelling nearby, nice towns and plenty of things to do. Luckily, dh wants the same.

I do not want camping or a busy hotel or an AI resort.

Are you going on the wrong type of holiday for you, or is it that you hate going away?

I honestly don’t understand people who are happy to stay at home for ever and never see or do anything new...

But when our dc were young, we had different holidays. Stayed in the uk, hired a nice cottage, so less travelling, no heat to sorry about, much easier.

Op, have a think about what you want, and why. Things with dc will change every year.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/08/2018 22:19

I get cabin fever if I never get to go away at all.

MissusGeneHunt · 03/08/2018 22:24

We're off camping tomorrow... Solution of all solutions for me, as the faff pre hols can get me down, with sorting everyone elsr:

it's only two counties away
the camp is in 'MILs' garden
I've sent DP off a day earlier, with bottles of wine (=happy DP) to put our, and DS's tent up
me and DS travel down day later, with dogs, at leisurely pace in my car
we've the use of 'MIL's' bathroom all week, plus privacy, lovely county to see culture, beaches, museums, chill out loads... And cheap!!! I'll be bunging 'MIL' some readies plus taking her out for meals, she's a lovely lady.

If it was just me, I'd travel the world....

Elizaevans9 · 14/09/2018 20:50

I hate going on holiday. It does not matter where i go. I hate all the packing. I hate the traveling. I never sleep well on holiday. I miss my home comforts too much. I have to organise things to do while we are away. If we go on a self cattering holiday i still have to get food and we are stuck together in one room if se stop in a hotel. When we get back there is lots of washing to do. Overall holidays involve too much effort.

Snugglepiggy · 14/09/2018 21:44

I used to love holidays and before going away on one would already be planning the next one -used to drive DH mad but he enjoyed them when we went.Oddly enough that was when our DCs were little -and we did epic drives to Europe ,camping ,villas and cottages with dogs in this country.I loved the planning,packing and anticipation of it all and have some lovely memories.We also had some very successful holidays with other families.Holidays were massively important. But something gradually happened and I now wouldn't care if we never went on another big holiday again.Really.
Our DCs are adults now and DH and I are probably as happy as we've ever been,he's great company so it's not going away and being together for a big chunk of time.I just love my home,and especially our garden ,and in winter I love cosying up.I love days out,or a nice overnight stay but the last few times we've flown abroad I realised I was just waiting to come home.Crazy I know.I keep quiet with some of our friends when we socialise,one in particular is constantly booking and planning holidays -in fact she talks of little else -and when I tried to explain how I felt made me feel like I was a bit of a freak
I especially detest the whole airport experience nowadays.Airports used to feel fun,the start of the adventure.Now the whole process,getting there on time,security,flight delays etc just make it too stressful .Having said that for various reasons we have to fly at least twice in the next few months so I will have to put up with it -but nothing beats coming home.

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