To bugger off on a secret break??

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My question is AIBU? And if it WHERE would you go??

DP is taking kids off for 2 weeks in October for an overseas family visit.
I will be staying, to WFH.

this has NEVER happened and eldest is 13. I am besides myself with the potential luxury of being home alone…

BUT. I’m really tempted to do something to —- along the lines of a health retreat, or spa break or city visit, U.K. or Europe for a few days, 5 days or so. and not tell DP til after … I can afford about £1k max - where would you go??? What would you do?

I’ll tell DP after, I just don’t want anyone raining on my potential parade as in theory I’m not doing family trip to save ££ and holiday time. Though the main reason is - I just don’t want to spend time/money on that trip ( we go enough as a family…)

‘Do you have any friends who would join you?’

I do, I just feel in need to come up with a vague plan first!

I would do exactly the same thing OP. I can totally relate to your situation. I've booked a day off before and told DH I was off to work and went for a spa day with an afternoon tea before. It was bliss and exactly what I needed to recharge. I returned home a much more relaxed and better person to be around. I never did fess up to DH though 🙈

I'd go somewhere coastal in the UK, with nice walks and restaurants. Or I'd maybe go to Bruges.

I would go to an Alp. Or a sub-alp (is that what they're called)? Quick flight to Zurich or Innsbruck, an hour or so on the train, and then spend a few days walking on hills, gazing at mountains, drifting in and out of spas/pools/saunas, eating, and napping. Utter bliss.

I would go to a spa hotel - probably somewhere like the Lake District as you can do some bits and bobs up there (lots of beautiful views and places to visit - stock up on Grasmere gingerbread!) or Cornwall (lots of beautiful beaches after being pampered and great food too.).

This would be pretty much my fantasy mini holiday: www.aqua-spa-resorts.ch/en/mineralbad-spa-rigi-kaltbad

If they're away two weeks, at minimum you'd have your weekends to play with - would you be expected to stay in the house then? If not, then I can't see the problem with a break away somewhere.

YABU enjoy the peace at home and then book a spa weekend at a different time so you get to do both.

Some fab suggestions! I’m sure I’ll miss them loads towards the end but right now I’m too giddy with the thought of the freedom… we e both been WFH since March 2020 too, and homeschooled kids so we honestly have spent an awful lot of time together…

I haven't managed it yet so no idea about where to go - I just wanted to say YADNBU!! Oh, the luxury!!

I really enjoyed Borringdon Hall in Plymouth it for similar money you could book a hotel with a spa somewhere like Prague or Warsaw.

StillHereChoosing is your suggestion a day spa or an overnight place, I can’t work it out from the website? It looks fantastic.

@TopGolfer There's a hotel with a dayspa attached. Disclaimer: I've not been - just read the websites A LOT. It is at the top of my wish list for an alone-time holiday, as soon as that opportunity arises, and it is my happy zone-out fantasy place in the meantime

Thanks, I think I’ll join you and have it as my fantasy place too when I’m having one of my ‘let’s pretend I live at a spa moments’.

What an absolutely bizarre marriage.

@TopGolfer yes! That would be lovely. See you there 😊 Hope you can join us too OP- and anyone else reading along who fancies it too of course !

Porto - 2 nights in the city, then 2 nights at a spa hotel in the Douro valley. Heaven!!!!

@StillHereChoosing maybe, maybe !