What holidays did you go on as a child?

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Just curious really. We never went to France or Spain etc or further afield when I was little, we would go and stay with relatives in fun cities or lovely parts of the countryside which I adored, and have wonderful memories. But at the same time I remember poring over travel brochures wishing we could go abroad as well!

Where did your family go on holidays when you were young? Did it instil a sense of adventure? Do you take your own kids back to some of your favourite places now?

I honestly think Cornwall has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world though so don't feel like I missed out a lot and my parents often had money worries.

Camping in either Scotland or Wales, depending which “foreign” country my father decided to drive to. These countries were “foreign” in his opinion because they are different postal districts. He worked at Royal Mail, so he knew🤦‍♀️

I hated everyone holiday, still hate camping now.

We went to Belgium when I was 8 .Remember the lady making lace .Went on a day trip while there to Amsterdam, My DGM bought me a lamp Played "Tulips from Amsterdam " all the way home! Went to Italy as well .Rest of time mostly holidays in Guest Houses on South Coast.

Luckily fellow passengers on plane home were patient ,and no one complained!

We went abroad almost every school holidays. My DH and I do not have that kind of money and all I do is think about holidays 😂

All our holiday we’re going to stay at grannies, she lived a whole 10 miles out of the town.

Primary 7 trip was a cruise on the SS Uganda, to Norway, Holland and Denmark. A few years later my brother’s primary 7 trip was a weekend in London. Another few years and they’d done away with the primary 7 trip when my youngest brother was the right age.

First proper holiday was when I was 19 and a group of us did one of those 9 countries in 11 days coach tours. Not the best trip for someone who gets car sick…

When i was really little we used to stay at friends houses. A single friend of my mums would let us have her house when she went on holiday; another set of friends lived in tied accommodation but had a retirement bungalow we would stay in from time to time. These were not glamorous parts of the country :)

We moved around a bit so there tended to be people we could stay with from other places.

There was often a week in a cottage somewhere, sometimes tied up with my dad’s job, where he’d get s discount and/or work for a day whilst we were there.

Once mum started working more we usually had two weeks in france, eurocamping or staying in a gite.

I'm 27 for reference and from Sussex, we used to go to cabins in the Lake District, Wales, Peak District, Cornwall and devon, we also used to go to lodge sites in France, we did 1 big trip to Florida when I was 5 or 6 and we did 1 holiday to Greece when I was 12, but every other holiday was either France or a walking holiday in the UK, I loved them tbh! Cherished memories!

We went to Devon, Wales, or the Lake District . One week at Whitsun half term and one in the summer. One week in a hotel / guest house and one week self catering (caravan/cottage/flat).

We also visited relatives in other parts of the UK, normally at Easter and October .

I was 16 when we first went abroad .

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It's possible to get cheaper holidays on a Haven site by booking directly with someone who owns a caravan on the site and lets it out .

My dad was an academic who specialised in China. So we spent loads of time in Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China. (I'm just shy of 50 for reference). It was all pretty fabulous and I value those years hugely.

DH's parents had a holiday home in Greece. he spent time in Greece growing up. Sadly though they sold it when his parents retired to London.

I did not go to Mainland Europe until my late 20s.

We went to Singapore and Malaysia to visit family when I was 2, but after that it was mostly camping in France.

Guest house in North Wales until the mid 80s then started going on package holidays to Spain

DH used to go to a b&b in Wales where they literally shared an elderly ladie's three bedroom house. They used to sit in her lounge in the evenings watching tv with her! Can you imagine doing that now 😂

Annual trip to North Yorkshire/Northumberland late 80's to mid 90's. First abroad trip was aged 14 in 1995 - camping in France on the way down to Provence for a relatives golden wedding then a week in Brittany on the way back up. One other week on a campsite in France in 1998.

I would imagine there's a generational bias in this though - DS15 had been to Spain and Zante by the age of 6.

Holiday parks in the UK, such as Hoeseasons, Haven, Butlins occasionally. France with school. This was in the 90's. We didn't go abroad until I was a teenager. Parents didn't like flying and it was expensive. I often wonder how old people were when they first had a flight and how it's changed. Whereas my daughter was months old when we took her on her first flight.

We had a caravan and did touring all over the UK and British Isles as very young children.
Once we started school we did European coach trips and visited France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and time in London.
At 9 we had my first flight and went to Athens and Spetse.
At 11 we started travelling to the US and did Florida (several times) and then LA, San Francisco, San Diego and Vegas.
I stopped going on holiday with my parents at 16. Then started travelling and going on trips with friends/boyfriends and have since done a lot more Europe and America, but also places like Iceland, Australia and Maldives.

It's definitely instilled a love of adventure and travelling in me. Its absolutely my favourite thing to do. I found the Pandemic soul destroying in that respect.

I have two young children (4yrs and 13mth) and we've done Menorca, Majorca and 2 trips to Disneyland Paris. We're going back to France in a few weeks and then Barcelona/Salou in the Summer.
Hoping to travel to America next year.

Camping in the New Forest, Devon and Cornwall, Norfolk Broads on a boat with a family group. Never abroad except a trip to Holland in primary school,

When we where little we went to a caravan in Wales which belonged to our Grandparents we sometimes for all the summer holidays and great fun it was on a working farm so helped with all the animals.
My dad had family in Isle of Mann and my sister and I went on the Ferry from Liverpool many times meeting our auntie at the other end.
My children have travelled all over Europe when we had a camper van in the early 80's best holidays we have ever had.

We never went abroad. Holidays varied from a B and B to a chalet or a campsite, but we often went as an extended family with cousins and DGPs. The best was a fortnight in a set of chalets in Carbis Bay, 1975. There was 16 of us and it was an absolute blast. Cricket on the beach, long walks, sea and sunshine, fish and chips...proper seaside fun. I have a vivid memory of watching a thunderstorm from the beach with the lightning bouncing off the sea, and my lovely Uncle keeping me snuggled up in his jumper. Those days were so happy it makes me cry to remember them.

Greece x2
Italy x2
Yugoslavia
America
A lot of camping

That's it I think

Great Yarmouth, Bournemouth, Devon etc all caravan holidays or chalets. We went France on a day trip thing and Scotland for 3 ish days. It took something like 10 hours on a coach to get there!

I was desperate to go to Disneyland as my neighbours always did. My parents wouldn't take me and my brother abroad 70's/80's

My parents were Irish so we'd spend our summers in Ireland every year until we eventually moved over there when I was 10. We had aunts in New York and Chicago so we'd visit them every few years too. From when I was around 12 years old onwards my parents started taking us to a different European destination every year...we went to Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, Greece and Holland. I started going to my own holidays with my own friends once I was 17.

I grew up to love travel. Now I have a 5 month old and he's already been to Mexico, USA and will be going to Italy in May.

I only had two holidays as a kid.
Butlins once when I was 8.
Spanish resort at 13 with extended family, it wasn't very nice and I've avoid that sort of holiday ever since.

As an adult I have travelled and lived in various parts of Europe and the Middle East. At some point I want to see N. & S. America.

My DC has lived in various parts of the Middle East and visited a lot of the UK. She is very keen to see most of Europe.
Right now it's Camping holidays in the UK which she loves too.

Italy every year to visit grandparents, sometimes stayed with my paternal grandparents in my dads home village, and sometimes rented an apartment at the sea side with my mums side of the family.

Other than that we did a few day trips to France on the eurotunnel and went on to the big hypermarket!