To not understand holidays

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Aibu to not understand how people choose and book holidays and what they do when they’re there. Except millionaires...

My childhood was spent self catering in the UK. I get them! And as a couple we went on short city breaks. I get them too. And we had an expensive all inclusive chill out honeymoon. Also easy! But I can’t work out how to do an abroad family holiday without being a millionaire.

All holidays seem to cost £2,500+ for the family for 2 weeks- I’m looking on First Choice, Tui etc. And the cheaper ones are a self catering room and a shared small basic pool. My children would be bored after an hour or two. Whilst they love swimming, they’d need to do something else for some of the day. Do everyoneelses children just happily swim non stop for 2 weeks? All the holidays seem to be miles from anything. Everywhere with lots of things to do is horrendously expensive.

I can’t work out where you find self catering villas abroad- I looked at AirBNB but couldn’t understand it. I thought it might be cheaper we could maybe go sightseeing or on walks or something. I cannot work out how to even start finding something!

AIBU to not be able to adult enough to even find a family summer holiday that won’t leave us bankrupt? And to not understand how everyone else does it?

Also at the risk of sounding very boring and sensible, those of you saving £500 pm for holidays, is that after regular savings and pension?

I pointed out that most people couldn't afford to save £500pcm on top of sensible savings and was told 'people have different priorities'.

Airbnb is the latest bogeyman in very popular tourist destinations but Venice or Edinburgh already were full of tourist accommodation and the problems they create before airbnb existed. On the other hand airbnb is great in less popular destinations giving more choice in a very limited market.

@Benjispruce I guess there is a lot of pressure on it, I've not really thought of it like that as we've always had such a good time. I see what you mean though, we look forward to it all year, so if anything went wrong we'd be gutted.

I suppose these are the risks we take in life.

Thanks all. Bit shocked to discover this thread is still going on!

Anyway, we changed our minds re holiday. Now going for one week and a city type break (not big city) in a budget hotel. Costing about a thousand for the hotel and flights. Obviously we’ll have food and entertainment on top of that.

Next year we might stay somewhere more exciting and book earlier for a better deal!