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Inlaws - holiday

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Snickerdoodle17 · 22/08/2022 14:38

We are going on holiday later this year for a week with my mil and sil. It's a destination we were planning for some months and we've invited mil as it's somewhere she's wanted to go to for a long time and wouldn't go on her own. We invited sil as company for her.

I'd envisaged that while we'd spend some days together, and obviously evenings as we're all in the same cottage, we'd also go off and do our own thing (with our kids) on a couple of days, hence hiring 2 vehicles. However it seems this is not their impression at all: they want to all spend the entire time together, all doing the same thing all the time; even hiring 1 car so we're glued together! The cottage is small too so I just think it's too much.

My own fault for not making it clear before we'd all agreed on the trip. DH agrees but wants an easy time and not to offend them, but I think we need to spell this out to them before, otherwise the holiday will be very claustrophobic. Tbh I'm starting to wish we hadn't asked them to come.

Aibu and do I need to suck it up and accept we're going to be doing every single together or ainbu and we should tell them asap?

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Creepymanonagoatfarm · 22/08/2022 17:27

Shame if you couldn't find a people carrier..
Some dc based activities..
Go Ape.
Water Park.
Ice skating.
Suggest places for all also so you don't seem to be totally dumping them!

rookiemere · 22/08/2022 17:37

Creepymanonagoatfarm · 22/08/2022 17:27

Shame if you couldn't find a people carrier..
Some dc based activities..
Go Ape.
Water Park.
Ice skating.
Suggest places for all also so you don't seem to be totally dumping them!

Well it depends very much on where they are going.

It would be a shame to miss destination sights to do things that can easily be arranged in UK and darn right mean to force someone not comfortable to drive abroad if they don't want to.

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