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.

What sort of holidays do you have?!

To me travel is life.

but you are not unreasonable to feel however you feel.

I like going on hols but not the few days before. I particularly hate the day we're going as we're trying to get everyone ready and out the door. My oh would often stand by the door and say "are you ready yet?" whilst I was running round trying to get everything together. I'd want to murder him. Now the kids are older they can pack their own stuff. We're going abroad this year for first time in 4 years and I feel there's less stress than in this country as we're not loading up the car with kitchen essentials etc, just 1 case each and as we're going with onthebeach I'm looking forward to fast track check in and free lounge access. And it's also better as the kids get older as you don't need to watch them all the time. Having said all that, any problems you have at home will no doubt follow you. My girls argue all the time and going on holiday doesn't change that one bit

I go for the kids but I never bloody sleep well when away so home back exhausted! But I love a beautiful sea and golden sand and proper heat!!

Agree, coming home is the best part, I love opening the door to my house and seeing it with fresh eyes and remembering how lovely it is, it feels all new and shiny again and makes me really appreciate my lovely home.

"You can see it all via documentaries"
You could say that about relationships, having kids, preparing food and eating it..

I have had a long period not wanting to go away, but am just starting to really fancy a proper holiday. I totally understand not wanting to go, I myself am very happy at home and don't feel bored or restless.

I agree experiencing things first hand is much deeper than reading about them etc., but also I completely refute the idea that people who go away are automatically more openminded or enlightened.

I also don't agree it is always about anxiety - some people are just happy staying at home.

Luckily, we get to please ourselves.

I like being at home.
We are going on holiday for a week in the UK and I will enjoy it but could just take it or leave it.

I have enjoyed many holidays in the past. I'm 42, but just feel done now. Just done with going on holiday and just want to enjoy my home and my life.

I wouldn't say I'd prefer to be at home but I'd certainly not want to spend the money, time and effort just for for my kids to moan (none particularly like the sun, one hates sand, one can't swim, one is a fussy eater etc). It's wasted on them.

I used to enjoy a holiday as a break from the norm, now its same shit different location.

That said we've done UK holidays the past few years and they've been semi successful as we can find things to suit us all. We'll stick to those for the foreseeable.

I hate airports, queueing, crowds and hanging about, and last time I flew I found the cramped plane so intensely uncomfortable that I vowed I would never fly again unless I could afford business class.

But I would happily drive to my local channel port and drive somewhere if I had someone to share the driving, and I like train travel in Europe.

I love it and can't wait to go again (first thing I'll do when I've sold my flat is book a holiday abroad). So many places and adventures to experience.
My parter and I have a list to tick off.
He's been to Thailand and I haven't so that's one, I've been to India and he hasn't so that's next. We plan to do an Italy road trip asap too.
I've taken my kids abroad since they were months old (Florida in a hurricane and evacuation from Miami wasn't ideal with a 10th old and 5 yr old but we survived). Daughter started crawling when we were in Spain - that was eventful.
My now adult kids are the same. Daughters just back from 4 days in Paris with her BF. She's going to Ibiza in summer with girlfriends. Sons off to a resort in Spain with his friend and his parents in school holidays.
I love holidays.

I feel this way whilst the dc are only young still, it's pretty much the same crap in a different location as a parent, with added stress and hassle. I suspect once they're older Ile start to enjoy holidays again, probably when I can go with just dp. We are going abroad in a few weeks and I'm dreading it, but going for the dc.

Do you remember this episode of Miranda where she goes on holiday to the hotel around the corner?

Look, Thailand!
Yeah, and you have to stay in this dive, wishing you were there.
Like a form of torture.
Or you can look at it, imagine you're there, without the hassle of going.

Up until Covid we used to go to the same two places in France every year - a week on the Côte d'Azur in May and two weeks in Brittany in July. It's now nearly 2 years since we have been on holiday.

We cannot go anywhere this year because my MIL has developed Alzheimer's recently and we are a bit all over the place with that, we can't really leave her at the moment until care arrangements are sorted. However with all the travel chaos we feel that if we have to miss out this is a good time to do it. The EU will be introducing their new biometric exit/entry system this year too and that will be an absolute fuckfest I'm sure. A brand new computer system which will have to collect billions of bits of biometric data from millions of non-EU visitors - what could possibly go wrong!?

On the plus side I live in Cornwall - which is nice!

We do like to visit DS in London from time to time, although the last two times we have been the traffic has been horrendous and it took well over 6 hours to make a journey that used to take less than 4, and we are off to Durham for a few days for his very belated graduation ceremony in July.

I love France and would be sad to never visit again, but I'm happy for things to settle the fuck down for the next year or two.

Never thought I'd say this but yes I agree! DH & I have been lucky and have travelled extensively over the last 15 years or so, then COVID hit and we discovered the South coast 😊 .... now we have a puppy and have decided to just do UK holidays for the next few years as we dont want to kennel the dog and spend some time enjoying the country we live in - we literally havent seen any of it, for example last week we went to Wales for the 1st time ever and it was fantastic.
Colleagues at work are all excited about holidays abroad and even that doesnt make me envious!

I've gone off flying a bit since having some health issues but I do like campervanning around Europe as I like hot weather. So I'm a bit in both camps.

If anything, my list of places I want to travel to is getting longer. I'd love to travel more.

But I spent many, many years in my 20s and 30s being too poor to go abroad much, so I guess I'm making up for lost time.

I love holidays, but to me a holiday means abroad. If for any reason I can't go abroad, I don't go anywhere in the UK as UK holidays are shit and home is much better.

I still like travelling but then I would never do the kinds of holidays so many people on MN seem to do. I'm not getting up at 3 am to catch a Ryanair flight, or driving to Cornwall when the whole country is driving to Cornwall. I don't do camping. If we do self-catering, no way do I cook and clean all week.

I completely agree that there's no point in a holiday that's not relaxing, but I think the solution is to try to plan a holiday that isn't like inherently stressful, rather than writing off travel completely.

Think you are either an itchy feet traveller or a stay at home type neither is wrong or right. Though the former is better for the environment. I crave trips away find it life enhancing and exciting to visit different beautiful places. Think it’s helpful if the two types don’t marry each other though!

I used to think that but I am on my way back from the airport after a week in Greece and I had such an amazing time I am already thinking if I can afford another trip abroad this summer.

The weather! The sun! The sea! As much as I love Cumbria where I live it is very grey and depressing at times.

I've been to all the places abroad that I wanted to go to. Now I'm not bothered and also think so many people doing too much flying isn't going to help climate change.
I've not been massively impressed by other countries anyway for various reasons and there have been incidents in each which have left their mark. I've not had great weather either so all in all quite disappointing.

The whole fuss of getting the passports sorted, booking the holiday, getting to the airport at unearthly times, waiting around, things going wrong [they have] and having to arrange transport the other end...and maybe driving on the other side of the road [hate that] in the dark to get to a place who knows where. Nightmare. Then do it all again in reverse! That's assuming the accommodation is ok and that everything you may need is available in the resort you are in, which is a big ask.

I'm more than happy to spend my days in my home from now on. I love it. But I'm much older than the OP. I don't get bored, interested in all sorts and always busy. Anyway there are beaches and countryside very nearby if I need time out.

I agree with this. Apart from lack of money, it seems like in many cases its lack of confidence.

I am torn! I love the idea of going on holiday and. Like the anticipation but when I am there I feel uncomfortable and want to come home. This happens in the uk and abroad. However, if I did not go away I would have FOMO. Drives me mad!

Not me Op, I LOVE to travel and recently returned from the Caribbean having not travelled in 2 years.
I love the difference, which I guess is the thing you don’t like? Which I can understand.
I love the different weather, people, food, roads, hotels, even the different architecture. I get so very bored so I guess it’s a personality thing!
I absolutely adored India when I know a lot of people who feel it’s ‘too much’.
My husband is more like you though! He’s worked abroad A LOT and just loves the UK.