Holidays are just not worth the money

[Phonicshaskilledmeoff]

Holidays are just not worth it.

The kids are desparate to go on holiday. I struggle to see the value though. For the 5 of us an abroad holiday is about £3k minimum. I struggle to get over the cost whilst I’m there - £500 a day and I sit wondering whether it was worth it.

The kids are excellent travellers and beautifully behaved when on holiday so it’s nothing to do with them. I just think it’s insanely expensive for what you actually get.

I enjoy it whilst I’m there - how do I stop being a cheap killjoy?!

If it’s the swimming your DC want then how about somewhere like Splash Landings or even hire a jacuzzi in the garden for some of the six week school holidays?

I took my kids to disneyland paris and the next year I took them to butlins, they preferred butlins. Mine are happy anywhere with a decent pool so we holiday in the UK generally. I know some people say that it’s just as cheap to go abroad but with the travel costs in the school holidays I struggle to find anything not 2-3x the price of a UK holiday in the school holidays. It’s better for the planet too which is a bonus.

You haven't saved, you haven't been anywhere to compare it! The Balkan countries are beautiful, cheap flights, cheap Airbnbs and cheap to eat and drink! I was in Seville, Spain in April and even there was vastly cheaper than home for Spanish wine and food. You can't compare it just to overpriced package holidays to stereotypical places. Don't forget people push that demand and price up by never thinking outside the box to go to other places around Europe. In Spain we were getting two glasses of lovely wine for a total of 5 euros, how much would two glasses of wine cost in the UK now!

Who says an Airbnb means housework and making meals in? It doesn't! Your issue is that you just don't want to do much on a holiday except sit around a resort and bung your kids into kids clubs. Sitting around an AI resort all holiday wouldn't be for me in the slightest! How much food poisoning happens in AIs? The parents that don't stop their kids sticking their dirty hands in all the heat lamp food. Plus for people like my partner and I that I don't have kids, we want to explore and get to know a place, we certainly don't cook and clean in our Airbnbs as such.

That's a very abnormal way of looking it and waste of life to not want to see or do anything ever. I don't think you have ever looked at what is out there to have such a sad mindset that you never want to leave home! As someone who has been to 63 countries, it's not even remotely pointless, the places we've seen, the people we've met, it's the best thing we ever committed doing - currently in Gdansk, Poland - look it up on Google images and tell me it's pointless to visit!

My partner and always have several trips ahead booked, were are in Poland currently and when we get home we can think about planning what we will do on our trips to Nuremberg in September and Tunis in Dec, we have flights booked to Guatemala next Feb and wed need to sit and plan the places we want to stay in and pick our Airbnbs, sort out onward travel to El Salvador and where we want to stay there and what we want to see - we watch a lot of you tube travel vloggers for inspiration. You don't have to live a boring life

That right there is the issue, you don't know how to have a life! You have never tried anything and seem a very unhappy person who hates life outside work! Travelling isn't the issue, your mindset is! It's very unhealthy to have no life to the point that you have to be forced to take time off. In terms of Xmas, I always find it an anti climax but I am always about 5 or 6 weeks away from heading off to the tropics to explore at that point so I'm not sitting there feeling miserable! You hate time off because you refuse to leave your house and do anything with it! My partner and I take all of our leave overseas, sitting at home would drive us mad!

And there it is again "on the off chance of having.a good time" - the issue is you! You seem determined to be depressed and miserable! Look at all the comments on here, tell me who is right and who is wrong when you don't even like life outside of work because you don't go anywhere and all of us on here that travel are saying it's the best thing we've ever done - it really does prove the point doesn't it!

Oh you'll have regrets I guarantee it, you live for work avd can't cope with taking time off! Being addicted to work and not doing a single thing with your life and not making any memories will haunt you later in life! I work so I can enjoy life with the money I earn, you don't want a life outside of work and only want to work.

Why does it piss you off so much? You clearly want me to have regrets for some weird reason. Why are you being so gleeful about it? You have replied to five of my comments with increasing venom.

You don’t know that I will regret it - why would I regret something I have never wanted to do?

I’m ND so the idea of being locked in a plane with several of my triggers does not appeal.

I have ‘made memories’ my entire life and have done wild things and had great experiences.

I don’t judge people who travel so why do you feel the need to judge someone who doesn’t?

You don’t know me so I am not sure why you feel comfortable with assuming things about my life. It’s quite an extreme reaction.

I am guessing you wouldn’t want to be on a plane with someone who is in sensory meltdown because they are surrounded by all of their triggers? So rather than treating me with contempt, perhaps give me credit for knowing what I want, what I will regret and what is likely to be harmful.

Do something different than sit at an all inclusive for a week. You could do a city break for a few days or somewhere in the UK. Are holidays worth the money? Probably not, but sometimes worth is not calculated in money

Oh and I have a job that aligns with my personal passion so even if I didn’t work I would be doing the same thing.

It’s great that you feel the urge to escape all the time if that works for you. But your attitude towards me seems ironically narrow-minded if you can’t imagine any life other than your own being fulfilling.

@Anarchy99

what kind of field of work are you in if you don’t mind me asking? It’s great to have a career that fits your passion