Skiing is over rated.

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I am here in France for a week skiing. Now in my mid 40s I have been nearly every year for 20 years, with the husband and laterly the two kids (now teens). I have decided it is stressful and quite frankly an exhausting holiday. Why have I suffered this long?! AIBU?

Can we swap? Sounds like my idea of heaven! I love skiing, but haven’t been for a couple of years.

seriously though- sounds like you’ve just reached that age where you no longer want to people please or join in on DH’s husband hobbies.

so in that case YANBU

next year do something that floats your boat and he can take the kids himself!

I think it’s great for 2-3 days. A week is too samey. I’m sure anyone who lives near a ski resort just goes for a day out. Is it mostly Brits who book a whole week?

Brits and Dutch I think. I’m skiing for 3 days at the moment but only enjoy it when the weathers good. Today was so windy all the lifts closed so I could walk instead / generally I only ski three days and walk/showshoe the rest.

You have to really love certain things to make them worth it. For example, skiing is worth it for me but camping isn't. I love skiing, I don't care about camping.

Added to which, self-catering is very different to a lovely ski in/out catered place. If I had the money, which I never have

A week skiing is hell. 3 days, sure. Absolutely no more.

YABU. T'is the best holiday ever!

I love being in the mountains getting all that fresh air and exercise before heading off for guilt free big, hearty meals.

Used to be a bit stressful when kids were little but not now they're teens.

We do long weekends now. That's just about do-able.

I found ski holidays a lot more enjoyable once I gave up skiing on them.

I now wave them all off at 9am and see them at 4/5pm. I potter around the village, read, pick up the food, watch films... whatever I like. And actually rest.

I agree about the skiing, but I do love the environment.

I think a lot depends on how you do things - it is a very different experience if you are self catering compared with a luxury chalet or hotel with spa facilities etc.

At my age I prefer to be comfortable and be able to spend the evenings recovering in a spa and being fed decent dishes instead of shopping, cooking etc

Totally.... I wanted to love skiing..... I don't. I have told my family and friends that I am more than happy to go on a ski holiday with them and just not ski.

Don’t get me wrong… I love France, the mountains, the food (the wine) etc… it’s just so tiring! I’d rather have a walk and then curl up and read my book. I don’t want to go fast, I don’t want to fall and break something… I just ache. I really fecking ache.

Never been. I love water too much!

I live in Switzerland and really can‘t be arsed with skiing. DH goes most weekends during the season and thankfully takes DS with him so I have a lovely day to my self to sew/knit/read etc. We go for a week every year but I insist on an all inclusive with spa so that I can also enjoy myself and don’t end up on cooking duty by default.

It's your age

When we were in our 20s and 30s we were keen as mustard. These days it all seems like an awful lot of work and so expensive - and we live within an hour of the Rockies!

I got taken on a compulsory work skiing trip to Switzerland when I was younger. It was terrifying! How can anyone survive without going missing or being brutally injured? How can you tell where to go when the floor and the sky are both white? What happens if you get lost? (Not many mobile phones back then, no smartphones obviously)
I didn't even manage the button lift on the baby slope, lol. Nice fondue and cigars though.

I'd never ever go again if you paid me!

Yanbu. So much kit and faff and after the first day Im over it! I'm not great with heights though so don't really like the lifts etc and I'm pretty risk averse these days. As at now , I have 3 friends with children who have broken legs from skiing in the last 4 weeks.

Correction - 6 weeks

Nooooooooooo.... skiing time is the best time!!!

Obviously it's very much a case of each to their own, but the idea of skiing doesn't appeal to me. I love the snow, I love the Alps and I love the cuisine and the wine and the lovely little towns, even the wildlife, but I have no interest in skiing. It just looks like such a faff and such an effort for very little actually enjoyment, with other people in your way and so on all the time, added to the genuine possibility of breaking your leg.

I think I'd be inclined to let everyone else do the skiing while I did other things. I'd take myself on a scenic cable car trip or a stroll round a nice town, eat my own weight in cheese and then sit and read while knocking back a bottle of wine.

I was chatting to two of my mates at the weekend about this very subject, and we agreed that the biggest red flag for any kind of holiday is the need for specialist equipment. Camping, skiiing, sailing, narrowboating, climbing, any of that stuff is a no from me. All awful.

We (DH and I) skiied in Canada for half term - our younger two children were on a school ski trip - older ones went with uni. We are now in our 50s so I'm in the "too tired, everything aches, don't want to break anything" club!

I have decided the best way to go, is without the children - that way, you can ski for as long as you fancy, stop for coffee/buns, ski a bit more and have lunch, and then if you don't fancy any more skiing - head home to the hot tub.

With the children, you have to ski all day to make it worthwhile.....so my plan from now on is to go just with DH, and defo without the children. (I accept there are flaws in the plan if your children are younger than ours (mid/late teens). 😂

Oh man I would have loved to have afforded to take the kids just once. I am struggling to empathize 😁

I would love to live somewhere with proper snow all winter so I could ski loads and love longer ski trips so totally disagree

When we had 3 kids at home, we always spent 12 days skiing a year. Self drive, very simple accommodation and self-catering, or we couldn't have afforded it. Hard work- but what a joy and we all loved it. So, sorry, but yabu.

No-one if forcing you. Will DH be happy to go with the kids and leave you at home.

It's fantastic zipping down hills and paths at your own pace in the snowy mountains.

It is less fun being dragged around by people better than you, always demanding you push on faster to keep up with them when you are tired and at your limit.

My guess is you are number 2 ?