To think it a waste if you don’t get up fairly early on holiday

[Lardlizard]

Say around 8-9

As if you want to lay in bed till 11 might as well have a few days at home !

Mad congratulations flirtygirl for having children and still being able to have a lie in.

In my experience, the "Get up and enjoy the day, make the most of being on holiday!" types are too knackered to properly enjoy nightlife where they go away, and yawning just as the evening is starting.

We have small DCs so don't get to lie in anymore on holiday, but I don't see that missing late evening/night life culture so you can have more hours sitting on a beach or reading a book you brought from home by the pool is somehow more worthy.

In my experience, the "Get up and enjoy the day, make the most of being on holiday!" types are too knackered to properly enjoy nightlife where they go away, and yawning just as the evening is starting

I am way past wanting to "do" nightlife. My favourite way of spending an evening is pre dinner drinks and a meal with a bottle of wine.

If it’s Blackpool, I’d happily not get up at all

I usually hope to avoid the nightlife when I am on holiday.

There are 24 hours in a day however you cut them up.

Where do you stand on afternoon naps whilst on holiday Landlizard ?

Yabvu

My only essential for a holiday, whatever kind it is and wherever I am, is that I can sleep WITHOUT AN ALARM. I fucking hate being woken by an alarm, and I have it for 90% of the year, so I definitely am not having an alarm on holiday. If that means sleeping til 9 or 10, then so be it, my body obviously needs the sleep. I tend to sleep very lightly anyway and wake up easily, and I never feel I have enough sleep, so some extra time in bed on holiday is a luxury and helps me relax and that's the whole point of a holiday to me.

I like holidays where I’m out doing things, never been a lying on the beach person. But, especially as I’ve got older, I find between 8 and 10 hours out walking around is enough (I do take breaks going for coffees food etc during that). But 10 hours is really my limit before I want to go back to where I’m staying and just chill. So some days I might be out by 9am but will then be back by around 6. Other days I might go out at 12 and be back around 9 or 10. If I’m going to have a late night, say midnight, I might not go out till 2 or 3. It works for me.

When I’m in actually holiday holiday yabu but Im single with no kids working in a school term time only. So when I’m not away at home in holiday yanbu because I just can’t afford frittering away the days. But I do have some days when I’m off just watching trashy tele

I was on holiday earlier this year, with a small group of friends in a shared house at the edge of a nice large town, with lots to see and do. I'm a quite early riser, and I got increasingly frustrated by one of our group who wasn't, and would wake up, read on his phone in bed, drift downstairs, have breakfast, faff around. By which time I was twitching to get out and about (having already gone out, bought everyone's breakfast pastries, eaten my breakfast, read a book for a bit, maybe done some washing). After a couple of days I started belting off earlier myself and agreeing to meet everyone in town a bit later - it worked a lot better all round.

Depends - in a hotel - up about 9ish for breakfast. Still a two hour lie in for me.
Self-catering sun holiday - whenever - usually by 10 though
Sightseeing - would be around 9 too but with teens they can’t shift themselves until a bit later which is a pain.
I don’t really lie in massively at home any more - 10 would be my limit!

Who cares what anyone else does on holiday??

In my experience, the "Get up and enjoy the day, make the most of being on holiday!" types are too knackered to properly enjoy nightlife where they go away, and yawning just as the evening is starting.

Oh god, I can't be arsed with 'nightlife' anymore. Been there, done that etc etc. This year, we went back to our cottage mostly for around 11pm and sat in the garden chatting and having a few drinks until any of us felt like going to bed. That was lovely.

Can I change your question a bit to ask my own?
AIBU To think it a waste if you get up fairly early on holiday? I always wonder why people are up at the crack of dawn, when holidays are meant to be about relaxing. Why would anyone think that getting up early is relaxing? I did it for years with the dc when they see young. I didn’t enjoy it then, so I’m not going to do it for fun when I could stay in bed!
Anyway, I accept that we are all different, so I really am not bothered how you spend your holiday time.

Oh god, I can't be arsed with 'nightlife' anymore.

Others, however, enjoy dancing away at night, playing cards or games, going to gigs or festivals where the music goes on till late (I love jazz bars for this especially). I have chronic and very dire insomnia so have made great use of time at night.

Horses for courses.

One way's no better than the other.

I haven’t had a lie in past 8am for around 6 years. If I ever get a holiday where I don’t have children waking me up at 6am, I’ll get up whatever the hell time I want.

I like other holiday makers laying in, leaves the breakfast room free for me to enjoy a quiet, carefree, relaxed breakfast in peace.
Also ensures I can get a sunbed and swim in peace, without noise from other holiday makers.

Not saying you have to enjoy the nightlife, and can see why others can't be arsed to do that bit of a holiday - but you could turn it around, if you are just going to drink a bottle of wine in your villa with your DH in the evening rather than go out and enjoy the different area, is that any more of a 'waste' of holiday than not getting up and on the beach/by the pool by 9?

Assuming the OP isn't just cuttign down to 4/5 hours sleep a night on holiday, they have taken the decision the morning is preferable to the evening. Fine, but why assume it's a waste not to enjoy the morning, but not a waste to not bother with nightlife?

Each to their own - not a waste to have fun in a different way to you.

I could not care what anyone else does on their holiday but I go on holiday to relax and for me that involves lying in and relaxing. Maybe one/max two days out of seven with an activity that I have to set a alarm for.

Good God no. Holidays are meant to be fun and rest. I'll get up whenever I bloody fancy it and that will not be 8 and probably not 9 either.

I agree with op. On days off at home we often stay in bed till midday. On holiday the alarms set for 7am, we have breakfast then we’re either by the pool by 8am (best part of the day) or we’re at the bus stop/train station/taxi rank. We are usually up late on the evening as well, having a few drinks in a local bar. On pool days we have a nice snooze in the shade, interspersed with a swim and a cocktail or three! That’s set me off now. I need to book another holiday < Google’s 2020 holidays>

Yanbu

God OP you sound like my mum.. getting up at the crack of dawn with a full itinerary for the day ahead. I was barely allowed to even hang out by the hotel pool!

Before DC, my DH and I would sleep A LOT, eat a lot, sun bathe a lot, and only leave the hotel to go to the beach or eat out.