To be bloody fed up and ready to go home!

[annie987]

As is the case for many, we have missed out on a few holidays this year.
Our final holiday - a week in our caravan in Wales - was not cancelled and the thought of it has kept me going. I actually extended the 7 nights to 12!
Well we are here. The weather is shocking and is for the foreseeable. Thoughts of lazy days on the beach have not come to fruition. Instead, I am working incredibly hard to make it fun for everyone (Including two teens!) by planning outings in torrential rain (and all indoor activities are closed!) We are on the campsite next to the noisiest group of people who think playing music, swearing and shouting until 1am is acceptable!
I know I should be grateful that we have a holiday at all but it would be much easier to just go home and relax!! Obviously, I won’t but I want to!!

My DH's family went on a 3 week campung holiday when he and siblings were 14, 11 and 8. It apparently was torrential rain for 3 entire weeks. They went to the pencil factory museum 3 times apparently, were wet and muddy the entire time and basically just read books the entire time. Their mum says she was miserable and they fought a lot, but they now all remember it as a lovely holiday as a family. Maybe it is like labour in that you won't remember the agony in a year?

Could you check with the site office as to when the noisy buggers are leaving? Or if anyone else is leaving so you can move pitches?

We are are on the first day of 2 weeks annual leave and are staying home. The weather today is shit.

Have been bloody tempted to answer some emails to be honest. If the weather is going to be like this for 2 weeks, I'm going to go bonkers.

YABVVVVVVU to go on holiday to a caravan with teens!!!! Even the very best of teens will not cover themselves with glory if forced to spend an extended period of time in a hot tin can with their parents and siblings.

I had a great family day out yesterday with teens. BUT.... it was one day . Expecting jolliness for a week+ is the greatest optimism I have ever heard!

To be fair we once rode around in a taxi for three hours in the air con to avoid getting out of the car in the searing heat!

Oh, the irony, Friendsoftheearth

Yes it was not lost on me either, but I was burnt to a crisp!

@Hellokitty82 how do we all book you to be our house sitters while away🤣 I live near the beach and we normally have great summer weather. Even have aircon !

I feel your pain, OP. We did cut one of our welsh holidays short due to weather. I still remember the time we had though, we did manage to have a good time on the days we were there. We left because we ran out of things to do and would need to keep spending £££ to entertain everyone in the rain. It's an exceptional year because of the closure of a lot of indoor attractions and there are much more UK holidaymakers who couldn't go abroad this year. I've heard everything is incredibly busy.
We gave up on the idea of a holiday this year and while I'm a bit sad about it, we can start planning the next one.

If you do leave early maybe you can keep some of the cash aside that you would have spent on food/entertainment and treat yourselves to something at home.

I once complained about noisy people on a campsite, and we had helped them put up their tent. They got revenge by throwing a pint of piss all over our new tent. 15 years on, the thought of people being so fucking horrible still upsets me.

I think it's best to just write off holidays for 2020. Camping/caravan trips in the UK only really work if all the local activities are open or if you own the caravan and can just pop down there last minute if the weather is nice. If you go abroad, it's not very relaxing worrying about whether you'll have to quarantine when you get back. If you are miserable OP, then best to go home where at least you will be comfortable and not have noisy neighbours.
I live in Wales - it's very pretty but there's not a lot to do this year. You need beaches not to be overcrowded and for swimming pools and activities etc to be open and not overbooked and to be able to get restaurant bookings. Otherwise it's dull as shit.

Go home op. Stop trying to be jolly.

i suppose we are lucky but we are going on holiday to Wales in November.
we usually go for breakfast first thing then take the dogs for a long beach walk and play. sometimes we might go into a town to have a look round.
then often have a lazy afternoon stretched out on the caravan sofas me reading partner watching tv often having a nod as well!
get some tea in the caravan as we have had cooked breakfast we usually have something light like a sandwich for tea. often then take dogs back to beach for a bedtime run then back to caravan, usually i cuddle up in bed to read partner stays up another hour or so.
we are lucky there is only us and we dont want a lot. makes no end to us if its wet or dry
i hope that the weather improves for you do you have wi fi most teens are quite happy if there are!

@AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter

And let’s face it, after the year we’ve all had who the fuck wants to go for a walk

haha right?! My eye starts twitching now whenever I hear the phrase "we could always go for a walk!"

Hell, yes! Want to go to some museums, then out to lunch and shopping. We went abroad, the kids were like they'd been let out of prison (teenagers). I was smiling every day. If only we'd been able to go to the theatre or a concert.

UK holidays suck if the weather is bad. It's why people go abroad (it's also often cheaper). It's why it'll never catch on in a big way.

Camping? Just no. Maybe for a weekend.

Come home.

Petronas, cruising is a fabulous holiday with teens - with them having their own room.

I agree that the UK is lovely... when it is not crowded . Out and about there are loads of "amateur" domestic holidaymakers who look sort of confused. Plus the sheer weight of numbers makes a lot of places which normally would be nice unpleasant. Being the lone walker on a rainy beach is atmospheric. Hundreds of hunched-up people on a rainy beach is just depressing.

Cornwall is great for teens, lots of watersports, surfing and other young people to hang out with. Teen dd was very pleased with lots of handsome surfers sauntering around at the beaches etc. A campsite in Wales is going to have (very) limited appeal to teens, so you were brave to choose it! Mine would have been demanding to leave just due to the lack of wifi forgetting about anything else!!!

Good luck op!

I lived in the U.K. for 30 years and I don’t think I ever had a holiday in the country. Weekends away, yes, but a whole week? No. Because of the pissing weather.
Mind you, we’ve also had shit weather in Menorca and also in Barbados fgs. At least we were child free then though where it doesn’t really matter.

You have my sympathies. This was me a week ago - booked a caravan on the noisiest resort I could find. Whereas usually they’d have had the evening entertainment indoors, because of Covid restrictions they had it outside - every bloody evening, live music which started at 7.30 pm (so the exact same time I put the little ones to bed) & continued til 10pm. Our caravan was the 2nd away from the entertainment complex so trying to get the baby to settle through that was a sodding nightmare.

I was actually relieved to come home

I am definitely one of those 'amateur' domestics you are talking about irma. I have my own plastic rain coat now, and a new picnic bag from John Lewis, I am constantly confused by the dress code, parking options, weather changes and BBQ techniques - I am not entirely sure what I am supposed to be doing each day, but we have great time, so I am more of the happy type, not a hunched in the rain type. Whoever they are poor sods!

Not been to Anglesea for many years, but Beaumaris Jail was always worth a wander if it was raining and there used to be an aquarium there too. Might be worth a wander?

Ahhh nooo, i live in anglesey and youve literally just missed all the hot weather we have had. We had one thunderstorm last week i think it was. Today is awful and raining. You really would of enjoyed it here if you came a week earlier but the weather is so unpredictable and you just never know when to book for a holiday up here. Im the type to want to go back home if i was in your situation. Back to home comforts lol.

You could have paid big bucks and gone to the Maldives for a week and a half of rain and lightening, now that is something to really cry about.
I would have traded a kidney to come home early.
There is literally nothing AT ALL to do in some destinations when the weather is bad. The Maldives is one of them. Nothing fun packed apart from some felt tips and blow up pool toys, two kids, cost the earth.

Sounds hideous and not like a holiday at all. I’d come home for sure

Beaumaris Jail was always worth a wander

Just come back from a wonderful week in Wales. The best holiday ever and we normally holiday abroad. Must admit, if we'd had rain all week I may be saying it different. But we had one thunderstorm, the rest warm and sunny. We did loads, beautiful scenery, wild water swimming, rock climbing, fishing and of course sandcastles on the beach. Made some lovely memories. We're booking for next year. I do feel for you though OP, I know we were very lucky with the weather!