@noborisno
If I'm going abroad I want to fully experience the place, via the people. Resort holidays seem especially pointless to me, as I can sit around at home, where all my things are.
A resort doesn't mean you are chained to the sun lounger, force fed and the gates are closed until your departure date.
Yes, some people never leave the resorts. Not sure what these people do on a UK holiday.
We do resorts every couple of years for the convenience. Nice hotel room, food cooked for you, DD getting herself drinks and ice cream without me thinking about it, pools for DH and DD and a fully stocked kindle for me and we sit at the bar in the evening talking and playing cards.
But - we go out, we normally have a car each time. We visit natural sides, have a walk if we go out of Summer season, we go to different beaches, go on a boat trip, do watersport, go to museums. We go out for dinner to local restaurants or during the day trips for lunch.We learnt how chocolate is made, how the slaves in the Caribbean lived, saw the house George Washing lived in before the American Revolution, visitied a city divided in two with passing a border control, saw Greek Orthodox painted churches, saw one of the few remaining Guttenberg bibles and so much more.
As much as I love a UK or German (home country for me) self-catering holiday, the unpredictable weather, higher costs for eating out and high cottage rental costs which went through the roof the last two years I also love a holiday abroad.