AIBU to think this is a complete waste of bloody money now?!

[TheScreams]

For Christmas, DH booked us a weekend away. In reality, what that means is that at 10pm on Christmas Eve, DH realised he hadn’t bought me a bloody Christmas present and so booked an airbnb hut on a campsite for next weekend. He spoke to a relative we were staying with for Christmas and they agreed to have DS and DD for the weekend (booked from Saturday to Monday). I tried to be grateful at the time and not express that it was bloody obvious that he’d thrown it together at the last second and not given it a single second of actual thought.

He spoke to the relative a few weeks ago and they told him they can only look after DS and DD from 8pm Saturday until 8am Monday. So, we’ll get to the campsite from midnight on Saturday and will have to leave by 4am on Monday. He’s also not planned anything for the dogs so they’re coming too - so, on Sunday, our only day there, we can’t do anything that’s not dog friendly. But DH didn’t think to mention this until today.

I live in a bloody national park so I’m not sure why my Christmas present is travelling across the country, for “two nights” where I don’t get a decent night’s sleep on either and then get to have a dog walk and to sit in a pub for the day. I could bloody well do that two minutes from my house!

It’s bloody non-refundable. It feels like a complete and total waste of time and money to go on this trip. AIB a complete bitch to be completely ungrateful for this “gift” that actually just sounds like shit?

No toilet, no heating, expressing milk... then he'll probably want Rumpy...
Please dont go.
Its the most thoughtless waste of money any fool could come up with

I wouldn’t mind some “rumpy” but I don’t want it in a damn shed with only a piece of plywood separating me from the crunchy mums and their granola babies, let alone with two spaniels an inch away from our genitals! 😫

This isn't 'trying to do something nice'. This is shit-I-forgot-to-TheScreams-a-Christmas-present. It's thoughtless as best.

@Laiste's advice is good. Don't go and talk about it another time.

Go alone with a stack of books. Or send him off with the dogs!

Didn’t she?! 😆

No, I really didn't. There is another poster using a name very similar to mine which I've used on and off since 2015.

There being two posters called BreadPitt on this thread is making me giggle.

Will the original BreadPitt stand up?

@BreadPittt as you have the extra t, will you be changing names?

You’re quite right. An extra T.

Why?!

Were you the original? Are they you or someone trolling you??

One needs to become BreadPitta

Probably not, it's one of a few names I use at random. I'd imagine they joined recently, found they couldnt register BreadPitt so rudely added an extra T.

I absolutely registered that one before they did 😂😂

This

Already done

My apologies to the original

Let's face it, there can only ever be one BreadPitt!

😂😂
Amused me anyway.

You have honoured your namesake with your gentlemanly action!

I’m sorry @BreadPitta pipped you to the post. Unless you are Mr Pitta now?

Even us crunchies like lekky 😂

I'd not go. I'm at a point in my life when I can't be fucked with shit that makes things harder. I'd suck up the monetary loss and the moody husband!!

To nobody with a brain does it sound like a nice weekend away. Not least because it is not a weekend away.

To nobody with a brain does it sound like a nice weekend away. Not least because it is not a weekend away.
Yes, sorry, I do take everything I said back- I woke this morning at 4 and this came into my mind and the thought of it all in the cold. I was totally wrong, sorry op, we just haven’t been away alone in years and I got carried away!!!

Balls to that. I honestly wouldn't go.

I’d go alone. Leave DH at home and have a relaxing break.

How about he drops the children off at the relatives, takes the dogs, and goes camping by himself. You get two nights of tranquility at home, to enjoy any way you like?

ABSOLUTELY THIS!!!!!

Sell it op, then go shopping. I would say the thought was nice, but circumstances have changed since then so it's not going to work.

What processed him to book that? I would definitely not be keen for a bloody hut without electricity or toilets as a Christmas present. You might as well find a random shed and sleep in that. How much was it? There must have been better options surely?

At first I was in the ‘go and make the best of it’ camp but the more you wrote the more I thought sod that I’d rather stay at home.

Or could you still use the childcare but book a night away somewhere closer so you do get a break and just treat the hut as a sunk cost.