I don't like going on holiday. Anyone else?

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We are on day 4/5 of a UK break (Airbnb). Husband said do you want to just go home today and I could not have said yes faster 🤣

I just don't like going away. Strange bed, poor sleep, food I'm not sure about (I've got bowel endo and I have to be careful what I eat). Worries about finding a toilet in unfamiliar places when endo flares up, which it always does. It's definitely a hangover from awful childhood holidays with a bullying father and I'm having therapy at the moment to help with anxiety, but don't think I've ever been on holiday and not been tense and wanting to go home from day 1.

Anyone else just not get the fuss about holidays?

I took a week of leave this summer and just stayed home and did nothing. No diy projects, no cleaning, no local sightseeing. Dc was away at an overnight camp. DH was still working. He and I had some nice meals together. Mostly I read, watched tv, and even took a couple of naps.

it was the most refreshed I have ever been after a holiday. I came back to work feeling fantastic. It was absolutely the break I needed and I’m going to try to make sure I do it at least once a year from now on.

I could quite happily book myself all on my own, if I had the money, the Royal Suite at the Four seasons hotel in Hampshire

Anything like that would be heaven here or similar abroad

I love holidays! If I have a break at home I always feel I should be doing something productive like decluttering but that's not possible if I go away.

But it's not just you. My dad always hated being away from home. My mum persuaded him to do a handful of holidays when me and my sister were still kids. He'd get really anxious and miserable in the run up then the holiday itself would be hit and miss. Sometimes he surprised himself and enjoyed it, other times he moaned and moped and one time we did go home almost a week early. One good thing was that he took early retirement age 55 and was able to afford the lifestyle he was happy with because it involved NO travel or holidays ever!

My kids absolutely love holidays and would be distraught if I said we'd miss a year. My husband is a bit of a grumpy and doesn't seem to care if we have a holiday or not but once he's there he enjoys it. Though last time we got home our 10 year old announced "i can't wait to poo on our dear old toilet again" and he agreed that "strange toilets" are one of the things he hates about holidays. So that seems to be a not uncommon theme either!

Thanks everyone, nice to know I'm not the only person who doesn't find holidays that much fun. I'm sure a big part of it is my crappy health. Makes everything such hard work 😞

I’m similar. Fatigue, low blood pressure, chronic pain, plantar fasciitis in both feet and irritable bowel syndrome make travel a huge deal. Once I get somewhere I spend at least half of my time resting in my hotel room along with obligatory early nights. Why spend all that money to look at the same four walls of a hotel?

I am a weird mixture. I love holiday planning and plotting and dreaming. I love looking at the photos afterwards and reminiscing about the food or the blue of the sea or the sound of the cicadas etc. But when I'm actually there it's not always so great. I don't like the physical discomforts, the funny tummys and the heat. I get a horrible holiday health anxiety a few days before we go that tends to stay around till at least day 3 where I fret and I stress that I'm developing an illness and I strongly want the safety of home. I hate being like it and I fight against it but it's there and definitely getting worse. I also have a sort of high alert panic thing going on where I am worried about being robbed or attacked all the time. There's no part of me that thinks to not go though.

I will go on holiday, and quite enjoy a short break in a fancy hotel or somewhere very beautiful, but in general- I love my home, I love staycations, I love my work and I just don't enjoy 'holiday' type activities as much as my normal life.

I enjoy travelling every now and again just to see something different, but I don't want to live a harder life than the one I already live, so no camping, no caravans even, air-con if abroad, nicer meals, nicer experiences, I just don't want to be squashed in or fed up or cramped just for a 'holiday'.

In fairness, I live in a holiday destination in the UK, so it may be all my holiday needs are met by my daily life, I drive around where I live and visit the best places and think how lucky I am to live here.

Sally below has articulated well how I am about holidays! It's a kind of love / hate relationship with travel and I don't do it that often.
Kudos to those that are always on holiday , they are hardcore

I love the idea of a holiday and all the preparation but never last more than 5 days! (Never been abroad) I miss my animals and home. Had quite a chaotic childhood and only had 1 holiday, so it may stem from that.

I always learn so much from MN threads. I always wanted a cat once DC got older, but I clearly shouldn't get one, as it seems to get in the way of travel.

I have commented but I think each to their own. I fully get, and experience, the ups and downs of travel. I also read a comment on here about taking a week off and doing nothing, to fully de-compress, which sounds like utter bliss to me!
Everyone is individual and enjoys things differently. I’ve had holidays I’ve not wanted to come home, and others I wanted to come back after a few days. I think as long as you get the things that allow you to decompress and unwind from life/work it doesn’t matter if it’s at home, abroad or elsewhere. We’d all be boring if we were the same.

I've enjoyed reading how everyone else feels on the topic!

I absolutely hate being away from home. I can't express how much I despise it. I love a day trip and luckily we live in easy reach of lots of interesting places, but actually sleeping anywhere but my own bedroom is horrible. Fortunately we live on the Edge of somewhere quite touristy so get a lot of visitors. I'm a bloody good host, so it works well.

I've traveled widely including tourist spots, places off the beaten path and some real uh, shall we say "garden spots" with the US military. Today in my 60s there is nothing and nowhere that I care to see. I travel occasionally to visit friends and family, but always feel relieved when I get home.

I love it.
It's nice to get away from the house etc, have different experiences, meet new people, see new sight.
I never really feel like I relax unless I'm away from home.
When your at home, you keep working round the house and garden all the time.

I hate being away from home because I can never sleep in a new place so spend the entire time feeling like I have a horrible hangover and extremely irritable while forcing myself to do fun things with the (also usually quite tired and grumpy) DC. Even worse as we usually have uk breaks I have to drive around all day in an exhausted state. I just spend the whole time wishing I was back home so I could sleep.