To realise that I actually don't like hot holidays?

[ZIgamunde]

I was brought up going to Spain every summer for 2 or 3 weeks at a time. My dad grew up in the 50s and 60s and always used to get taken on hot beach holidays. So I kinda presumed that this was the only type of holiday there is.

Recently I've done some travelling during the Winter to the Baltic States, and this summer I went to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. I had amazing trips. And the best part, was that I wasn't dripping in sweat and exhausted by the heat.

I think I've realised that I'm not made for hot countries. Is anyone else the same??

I like hot countries (I used to live in one) but since peri-menopause hit, the sweating is a problem. 🙄But I find beach holidays the most boring thing on ever. I tried once. That was enough. I'd much rather be out exploring somewhere and seeing and experiencing things than lying on a beach (or by a pool).

I like hot holidays if it's a chilled one with very little happening, although it has to be a Villa with air conditioning or I wouldn't even contemplate it. But if it's a sightseeing holiday then I like warm and sunny, cardi/light jacket weather. I don't do cold snowy trips at all though!

Yes - we'd only go to a hot country in summer if it's for watersports. Sightseeing in the Mediterranean area is best done at Easter or October.

I don't like lying on the beach. But if it's watersports, it's so much nicer in a very hot country. The water in the UK is very cold.

I love hot holidays but I was also an adult before I realised there was more to holidays than sitting around a pool or going to Disney.

I love a hot holiday (currently on a “pissing down with rain” holiday) - but my kids love being in water, water sports and all that, I love reading books quietly, so it suits us.

I fear this summer is one to never be talked of again and any attempt ti suggest france or England for holidays next year will be shot down. Fabulously, it was apparently gorgeous here last week (france) and next week will be dry and low 20s, so my “walk in woods, bike rides, sightseeing” plans would have been perfect. Apparently I’m the only one who wants to do these in the rain…

but You are right to try other holiday types. We might do a winter skiing one this year. I guess most people hear “holiday” and think “med, sun loungers, pool, hotel, buffet breakfast” but there are a lot of other holiday types and it would be boring if we all liked the same thing.

(not doing france holiday again - reckon this will cost about £3k all in, cottage, crossing, dog passport, food and now having to do indoor paid for things- and it’s all a bit rubbish, heading whichever hotels survive the Mediterranean fires next summer)

@LimeCheesecake Just go to the South of France - gloriously warm and dry this time of year.

I hear you. I don't like being too hot either 😄

Just been reading about crazy people getting up 3 hours before the pool opens, to nab the best sun loungers. Can't think of anything I'd enjoy less on holiday than sitting around a pool all day. Not to mention that holidays are meant to be relaxing, not stressful bickering over proximity to the pool!
I never 'got' the obsession Brits have with moving to Spain - those programmes where people buy apartments and orgasm over the view (usually a few scrubby bushes in a dust bowl) leave me cold!

Much prefer holidays where you actually visit the places where you've spent money to go and don't boil while doing it!

I love sunny weather but not hot weather. I can't stand rain, but I also hate traipsing around in 35C+ heat, sweating and feeling drained. Somewhere between 18C and 27C with sun and blue skies is perfect for me. I tend to go to 'hot countries' in their winter (when often it's still very nice) and either stay in the UK in the summer or go somewhere cool. The only exception is if I'm doing a fly and flop beach holiday where I'm just lazing around on the beach, but even then, anything above 30C is a bit unpleasant.

I feel the same OP, Cornwall and The Lakes suit us. I love city breaks abroad, but not when it’s summer hot. Andalusia in winter, Florence in spring. Looking forward to out of school hols breaks in the future

I didn't grow up with hot sunny holidays. My parents didn't book a foreign holiday until I was 18 and I couldn't go because I'd just started work. The only foreign holidays I had as a child was a French exchange trip when I was 12 and another holiday with my French pen friend when I was 14 and then when I was 19 I went to Russia for a week.

So I really do love a holiday in the sun now but also love UK holidays ( particularly camping or in a self catering cottage ) and had a fantastic relaxing holiday last February half term in Norfolk. European city breaks around Xmas time are always great too.

I think I just love being on holiday.

I can cope reasonably well up to about 32 degrees. After that I melt and get irritable. I go to hotter countries like Malta, Southern Italy or Spain at the end of October or the end of May. It's always a comfortable warm temperature then and less crowded too. In summer I prefer Northern France, Denmark or Fiords.

Same. I like the UK in summer and then Andalucia in February just for some brightness.