to not want to go on holiday ever again

[noborisno]

Anyone else just not bothered about going on holiday and would rather be home?

Just wondering if how many others feel the same way. I'm just not bothered and even find it a hassle. I could not care less if I was never to go abroad again in my life. I do like weekends away but anything longer I just want to be home again.

Yes if its in the UK. I dont like holiday in the uk. I find it very boring.

i like going abroad.. i take long holiday once a year usually go to asia. So many interesting places in Asia.

I do like the not having much stuff on holiday. That’s one thing I appreciate. I don’t have that much stuff at home actually but obv mire than fits in a bag!!

I do think there is a lot to see in the UK which some people do not realise, we cannot afford to go abroad for the first time in a long time, DH is devastated but we are going camping in a part of England which I have not seen before so I am excited. And tbh with all the issues with passports, airports and having two young children I think we gave a dodged a bullet in that regard.

@LuckySantangelo35 - some of us actually don’t mind the vagaries of our locality of the British climate!! I’d struggle in Scotland (temperatures not quite as high on average as down south!) but I’m as happy on a rainy day as I am
on a sunny one - rainy ones are often better…light a fire, do (less physical!) inside jobs and have an excuse for half an hours tv!!

I’m with you OP and completely understand. The admin and faff takes away some of the simplicity. I’ve just spent the weekend in a marvellous hotel 30 mins from home - it was more of a holiday than the 12 days in Europe last month.

My indifference is mainly due to having young children in tow. But all the booking of stuff (hotel, flights, car, insurance, waiver etc) is such a minefield. Then comes the travel, with several muscles getting torn in the process of humping all the luggage around it around. Then, finally the jeopardy (if you’re lucky and they don’t puke on the way there) of which child will get sick first whist you’re there.
All that said, I will go abroad again next year!!

But all the booking of stuff (hotel, flights, car, insurance, waiver etc) is such a minefield. Then comes the travel, with several muscles getting torn in the process of humping all the luggage around it around

Most holidays involve three bookings: flight and hotel; travel insurance (you can include this in booking 1); car hire. It’s hardly onerous, it literally took an hour online for the holiday I’m currently enjoying. Our luggage weighed 11kg in one case, 12kg in the other and both have wheels.

By all means don’t have holidays but don’t pretend organising them is akin to an early 20th century Arctic expedition.

Agree that with babies or young children it’s not really a holiday. We stayed within 2 hours drive of home at that stage. But travelling with primary age is amazing .

We discovered house swap so have travelled extensively all through our kids childhood as no accommodation or car hire to pay. Utterly life enhancing. .

I love going on holiday! Off to a med country in a couple of weeks and can’t wait.

I’m not a fan of uk holidays unless they are short beaks. The weather is too unpredictable and everything is so expensive.

I don’t really understand the angst and stress that people claim to suffer booking and going on a holiday. Fgs, you make a few bookings, mainly online, and you pack and go.

A lot of those saying hat don’t enjoy holidays have simply not been on holidays that suit them

i read some of the camping “holidays” that mumsnetters endure and I think WTAF

i LOVE holidays. Why? Because I love being spoilt rotten, not washing cleaning cooking shopping, I love massages, sun, beautiful beaches, balmy evenings.

and so that is exactly what I book

hence I LOVE them

Yeah I would HATE camping. If that’s the kind of holiday some on here have been having I totally get why they wouldn’t want to go again

I’m lucky to live in a tourist/holiday hot spot in the U.K. The sun shines enough to keep me happy, and there’s always the wood burners if it’s cold.

I could swim with dolphins anytime they show up to play with us, though I’m not a huge fan of wild swimming so prefer to stay on the boat.

I still love travelling, especially city breaks, but anywhere i can try local foods and wander around is fine with me.

I hate airports but regard them as a necessary evil, and great for people watching. And never had a luggage issue whether I’m packing 5kg or 50kg. I am one of those people that used to have a folder for everything but now it’s all on a phone so a lot easier than it used to be.

My DD also is used to travel so we never had the grumpy screaming baby or toddler. That may change now she’s reached teenhood!

I think some people feel the need to find a reason for not wanting to travel - there is nothing shameful in wanting to stay at home, and equally, nothing shameful in wanting to travel. Each to their own.

I think there's 2 different things going on:

A. People who don't like leaving home. Fair enough but I would worry about their anxiety and flexibility/ ability to deal with change generally, I think.

B. People who only want to go on holiday in the UK. Often these people can be quite narrow minded generally (I know quite a few).

Each to their own but you have to wonder where it comes from. The desire to explore and discover is very much a part of learning and growing, whatever your age.

Agree that with babies or young children it’s not really a holiday

What's a holiday? You can still explore, eat different food, enjoy a different climate, hear a different language - with a baby or not. I've taken all mine from 6 months old and loved it!

Used to love travelling, but since having kids I have only been abroad once, partly due to financial reasons and COVID, but mainly because of the stress of packing and organizing (usually falls to me) and the fact that my youngest child is a bolter. This means holidays abroad or camping trips are likely to be really stressful and air travel is a no-no too. No issues with my first child though.

The only option for us is a cottage in the UK with an enclosed garden so my child can't get out. It sounds extreme, but if you saw my son turn a lovely picnic into a nightmare yesterday you will see why! I also get anxious about leaving my home and travelling too. So for the first day it's horrible. I also never sleep well in a bed that isn't my own and it's same with OH, so we usually want to come back earlier!

Pollution. Yes, before Covid, I noticed an increase in adverts on TV, about the wonders of travel to faraway places, all looking and sounding amazing. Then, so much about climate change. It’s seems that some people are focusing on recycling at home, but ignoring travel impacts.
Have lived in a couple of other countries, and used to enjoy travelling in the distant past, more than a decade ago. Now, I can’t think of it without thinking of the impact on air pollution, noice pollution…

I must admit I don’t get the whole not wanting to leave your home thing.

Why? You’re never the vast majority of the time.

It’s still gonna be there when you get back.

A change is nice from time to time.

I can understand why some people do not want to travel abroad, if they don't like flying, or ferries, or even smaller things such as having to queue for an unpredictable length of time at passport controls.

However, what concerns me is if a dislike of holidays becomes not having time away from work and all the normal things of life. Or a low level form of agarophobia.

I have friends who have backpacked, travel abroad regularly and live abroad. I am fully supportive of that but to my mind being well travelled doesn't equate to broadminded and open. I am broadminded, well read, open to different cultures and ways of living. I am not well travelled my parents couldn't afford it so my first trip abroad was in my mid twenties. I loved visiting Greece and Italy, didn't like Portugal as much, loved Barcelona, Paris was ok but difficult to eat as a vegetarian (without doing diligent research). I had a hideous holiday in Gran Canaria. I have been left thinking travel us not a gateway to being a better person, it is a privilege that people seem to think is their right.

I don't think I really got an idea of how people live in other countries by spending a week in a hotel or holiday home. I can sample the nice parts as I am on holiday. I am uncomfortable with the environmental impact of travel. I am happy to visit other places but don't think I really could understand a different country or culture without living/ working/ learning the language. I am troubled by tourism as a concept. But I don't think that means everyone should stay at home knitting their own lentils. Just that people who are well travelled are quite capable of travelling with their blinkers and small minds in place. I have lived in the north/ south and Midlands in the UK, my family are Irish and Canadian so I have migrants in my heritage but I don't have the travel bug really.

2 weeks “in the sun” does absolutely nothing for me and if that was the only holiday I could ever go on, I wouldn’t bother. If I want to lounge around reading a book I’ll do it in my garden where there’s nice shade and no other people!

I like long weekends in other European cities. There’s usually enough things to fill a weekend in even the smallest of places and it’s a nice change of scene. Long haul trips are always about activities of some kind. Seeing the sights, going shopping, getting out in nature. But then I don’t have young DC. I can imagine it’s a lot more hassle if you do. Likewise with the city breaks.

That being said, travelling is a hassle and it’s stressful and tiring. This is precisely why I am ticking off my list of places I want to see pre retirement. I’m in my 50s now and definitely feel the change in energy levels from my 30’s and 40’s and I suspect by 70 I will be done with it all!

So many people desperate to fly after the last few years.
This makes me want to stay in the U.K. even more!
m.facebook.com/TerrysTaxis425423/videos/if-you-have-an-airport-booked-with-us-make-sure-you-are-giving-yourself-plenty-o/535966954825645/

I suspect by 70 I will be done with it all!

Wait til you reach 70. I’m 70 next year and I’m definitely not done with it. My parents had their last foreign holiday when they were 94 and 96. They really enjoyed it too.

@Blossomtoes

Thats brilliant! Good for them 😀

So I'm going to put it out there. And I fully expect to get flamed..

How does flying around the world sit with climate change amongst MN'ers?

You've forgotten getting to the airport and getting back home again after the holiday. Unless you're lucky enough to live near an airport and have good public transport, the getting to/from the airport can also be painful, i.e. booking an airport hotel or booking airport parking/transfers etc.