Should my husband let this go, or pull his ex up about it

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Background is stepson is 9- DH and ex split when he was 1. They have 50/50 care.

Ex has never taken him on holiday (until last year) and always waited for us to book our holiday before going abroad with her boyfriend. (We've always taken stepson with us)
So after this had kept happening she hadn't told SS she was going abroad when he was away with us and DH told her he wasn't going to lie to him and that if she feels guilty about telling him then maybe she should think why.
Anyway- after this, she took him away for the first time last year. All good.

We've been away this week and I was walking next to stepson and we were talking about holiday places we've been. He asked had I been to Eqypt and I said no. He said he had. He hasn't.

I told him I don't think he's been to Egypt and he said no he has, it was really hot, the pyramids were amazing and he isn't in the photos as he took them of his mum and her boyfriend!
I left it but mentioned it to DH who was seething and now wants speak to his ex and tell her that he shouldn't be telling his son he's been places he hasn't and that he should be honest with him about going on holiday without him.

My Aibu is- I've told him to just leave it, is it really worth it? But he's adamant. So, should he speak to her about it?

Well who knows? Even the OP said she doesn't know why she didn't take him away before.

Imagine if it was the father never taking the son away and lying to the son about them being there but taking the pictures ,I imagine some of the responses would be very different .......

She lied because she knew it looked bad, and it does. She didn't want to take her own son so she could go out, get drunk and have fun without him. It's really quite simple. That's fine to do now and then, but every year? That's over the top. You guys could have swapped every other year.

And now lying to the child and ss about it? She's defensive because she knows she is wrong.

My dad used to tell me about his holidays to Tenerife with his new family (but not take me).

When I was about 8 or 9 I told a friend at school I’d been to Tenerife during the summer with my dad because it hurt to have to explain I didn’t do anything over the summer because my dad spent the summer away with his new family not me, my mum was working and skint and I was ashamed of the whole situation., especially as everyone else in class had something to report back.