Aibu to not want to sit round a pool for ten days?

[Bells3032]

OK serious first world problems here. I have a three month old and we are currently looking at a 10 night trip in September. But all my research shows that anything remotely baby friendly is some beach resort in the middle of no where.

Realistically I am paler than a ghost and the idea of spending 10 days sitting round the pool in sticky suncream just sounds like my idea of hell. I like to read and I could cope with 3 days of it but not 10. They all advertise windsurfing and kayaking etc but not something I can do with a 9 month old in my arms.

But whenever I tell anyone this they're always like "oh but you can go for a nice walk along the beach". OK that's fine one day. Maybe 2 but you want to do the same thing day in and day out for 10 days.

Am I the only one that thinks this wag. Everyone else I know is going to tenerife or corfu etc for their holidays and just can't believe I don't want to.

I love history and museums etc. I do recognise I can't do stuff like I used to with a baby. Am I the only one that feels fed up that the only holidays suggested to someone the minute they have a baby is a beach resort? Aibu to not want to just sit round a pool and go for a short walk (and it would be short in the heat)

The thing is it’s impossible to know what your baby will be like at 9 months. If they are crawling and cruising (likely) they will want to be on their feet and mobile the whole time and it will be a disaster. I’ve had 2 very active babies and I can’t imagine having been able to do any sort of cultural trip with them! Plus they hated the buggy.

But I also know easier babies who sat still in the buggy happily for hours so it depends! You just don’t know yet

We took the kids when my youngest was nine months old to a beach resort. Bloody nightmare. He sat in his pushchair round the pool as we had to chase him everywhere!
He hated the heat. I don't enjoy holidays with babies!

@Giraffesandbottoms

The thing is it’s impossible to know what your baby will be like at 9 months. If they are crawling and cruising (likely) they will want to be on their feet and mobile the whole time and it will be a disaster. I’ve had 2 very active babies and I can’t imagine having been able to do any sort of cultural trip with them! Plus they hated the buggy.

But I also know easier babies who sat still in the buggy happily for hours so it depends! You just don’t know yet

But sitting around a pool with a crawling baby also sounds rubbish! The beach might work better but it still sounds quite tedious as the activity for a week. Personally I think that during the years where there's no chance that you can sit, read a book and relax on holiday it makes much more sense to have holidays that are planned to be active and busy as otherwise it just seems like a recipe for disappointment. At 9 months both of ours loved backpack carriers and for us outdoorsy sight-seeing (so ruins and castles rather than museums) was perfect.

Go on a cruise. Will be a lot easier.

I also don’t really understand this, plenty of places are baby friendly and you can easily do museums etc in most major cities, all you need is a cot in the room. If you don’t fancy a beach go do something uou do fancy, it really isn’t your only option.