To leave holiday a day early?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Booked a mega cheap week away about 4 hours drive from home, two younger dc and dh. SIL and her dh are kindly staying at ours to pet sit. Due to leave sat, but I want to go a day early.

There's little to nothing to do here, one reasonable beach in amongst a load of muddy land, and one day out type place an hours drive away. One pub which looks half falling down. A small play park which we have visited daily.

Weather reasonable today but v.windy. revisiting Attraction and will do another trip to the beach (if it stays dry) but the weather is meant to be hideous tomorrow. Its been crap most of the week.

Leaving a day early would give us all an extra day at home before school 're starts and work comes round again. Kids can be back in their own beds and we can spend an eve with SIL and BIL.

Dh is very much a "we will just crack on, it's a week away" and won't recognise the benefits of that extra day at home.

If we want to do anything else "nearby" it's about a 2h drive away. Which is halfway home anyways.

If your husband won't budge on not going home, can you change your mindset about the day in the house? Have a pyjama, films and pizza party in the house?

I do like the PP's suggestion of driving home late on the last day, because to me the worst part of travelling are those wasted hours spent faffing about.

You could pack up the penultimate evening, have a nice day out last day. Drive the kids part way and stop for dinner. Hopefully sleep off in pyjamas, and straight to bed when home, then wake up refreshed and all home at the end.

Agreed- leaving tomorrow. We brought board games and have played them all throughout the week. We've cooked dinner together which was lovely.

The tv has channels 1-5 so it's been nice just forcing ourselves to agree to watch the only movie on one night

Don't get me wrong - we've enjoyed it. And we knew how little there was to do.

It's just we've done it all over and over and quite fancy our own beds now.

Safe journey home! I'm thinking Pontins Camber Sands from my own experience

And yes we did wander and look at all the beach huts , ate the nuclear fission chips.

Haha it's not Camber Sands but having had the pleasure of working for a very short time at the Pontins there I can concur it is almost identical!

Leave. Holidays are not prison. I have left early when I got fed up. They should not be an endurance test. Tell DH you are upset and want to go home NOW (with a death stare).

My only concern would be the impact this has to your SIL etc. Can they stay the extra night or will you be kicking them out early too?

No no, they can stay. We've been in touch, they are looking forward to it.

It's just we've done it all over and over and quite fancy our own beds now

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We left early this year AND last year. We had done all the things we could do nearby, uncomfortable beds, crap wether. Just wanted to get home to my own comfy bed.

DH said we aren’t going away again lol

Hmmm I am thinking maybe Penzance?

I would. We had a disastrous holiday on the Isle of Wight a few years ago. Dd2 was 6 months and had tonsilitis. We spent one of the days at the walk in centre because she was so poorly. We barely slept because we were up with poor dd2, but kept trying to push on with activities in the day for our 5 year old. The weather was crap too. We ended up switching ferries and going home a day earlier and it was the right decision, even though I love the Isle of Wight.