DO most " we are fancying a short break" threads make you want to kick the poster?

[100PerCentCod]

or is it juts MY envy?

we only managed five holidays last year

cutting back this year - have only got 2 booked so far

nmarge simpson growl

we have so many holidays that we have to go in term time

My dh was in New York just before Christmas. He 'phoned me to say "I'm in Rockefeller Plaza - can you hear the brass band playing carols behond me?".

Grrrrrr!

I think I love the planning bit more than the holidays themselves, which are usually stressful, knackering and don't allow for dp and I to read tons of books on the beach like we did before ds's came along..!

I've got all my 2007/8 annual leave booked, with a holiday/plan for each bit of leave!

i refer youa l to this

cod, are you suggesting a 'wealthy MNers' topic so the skiers don't offend you

sorry I could be guilty as I posted asking for travel advice - BUT in my defence we last had a holiday in 2001 and I last took time off work in 2005, and although the locations sound dead glam its the travel equivalent of UK/France from here.

So could I be allowed a slightly annoying 'help me choose' thread just this once if I promise never to do it again?

(and anyway I won't actually get to go now because MIL has now elected to stay in my one free week till June, the one saving grace is a business trip to Berlin which will be mainly torture except for the 16 hours of flights where no one can reach me)

" By 100PerCentCod on Mon 15-Jan-07 11:10:36
xenia
he lef tyou int eh resturatn? blimey
was the food good?
no chuffeur offered to drive oyu home?"

I think it tasted of sawdust by that point and we were staying where we ate at the Ritz so no need for transport. It was more the not knowing if he'd gone and was coming back and what to do with the rest of the food that was the problem.

cod oh god that thread!

they can all feck off

I am jealous of anyone who can afford even one nice holiday a year. Tbh I can't really work out why we can't afford one, we don't seem to spend much money on anything else... but the reality is that holidays in the school holidays are soooo expensive. PIls went to Spain last May half term for two weeks (from Ireland) - we looked at going for the half term week and it was going to cost more per person than their two week holiday - purely becasue of the half term here...

KTP, we are in the same boat, too skint to do much. we usually take the boys to Whitby for a week and honestly it's great, the kids love it. there are loads of great beaches bearby, Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick Bay, Straithes, its all so old fashioned and like a real childhood beach holiday! try it and I'm sure you'd love it. I don't have the money to take the kids abroad and so far they don't seem to be missing out , apart from most of the classes they're in all having been to disney!

Is there a particular resentment about going skiing then? It doesn't have to be posh and expensive (especially if you leave your DH and DC at home).
We do manage a few holidays, including a couple of Sun £9.50 weekends, housesitting for friends in nice places who can afford holidays abroad, and eurocamp...but this year we would have to go in the school holidays so that's out, too expensive and too busy.

cappy

Xneia if oyu wermy muim shed have put some in a napkin for later

" well ive paid ofr it"

I was a bit too upset to do that, sadly. I suppose my only point was it's more who you're with than where you are that really matters.

Actually if we avoided going to Ireland to visit family for the whole year we probably could afford a nice holiday - don't know how well it would go down though (with grandparents or our kids!)

xneia
dotn be all maudlin and profound.
next time nick a sugar sachet

( oh sorry thats little chefs)

Hmm, we had three holidays last year. One was trip for a funeral, but to Mexico. One was running away so builders could do things (one week boat on the Seine in Paris, two weeks in a resort in the S of France), and one was my annual Trip Home (three weeks, one in Montreal, one in Toronto, one in a resort in the countryside).

After the last trip, I swore I wouldn't go away for ages, and have stuck to it.

I don't really enjoy travel that much, and the addition of children has not improved things much.

The two holidays I enjoyed the most (pre-children) didn't cost very much - one to Crete and the other walking in the Alps. They cost a fraction of other long-haul holidays we have had.

We have always done the childhood beach holiday type of thing up to now, snowfun, it would be nice to try something else though...

I've got two booked for next year, just wondering how to slip a third in. [sticking tongue out emoticon]

However the two together will probably cost much less than some people's one holiday. I was looking at Florida this afternoon, as someone told me it is very cheap over there just now, but the flights alone are astronomical and would probably cancel out any bargain jeans and trainers to be bought.