How many times a year is reasonable to go on holiday?

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Following on from listening in to an amusing conversation between dd and her boyfriend.

Dd thinks that every day of annual leave should be spent travelling somewhere or doing something. Being at home for it is a waste. Her boyfriend thinks you only need to go abroad on a holiday once a year.

Dd argues that the reason she works hard and earns a high salary is so that she can travel to pretty much where ever and whenever she wants. In her mind 3 weeks abroad, 1 week in the UK, and 1 week for things like Christmas/Easter is an ideal combo.

I'm with DD. I had two weeks in Egypt in February, just had a (very flooded) week in a cottage in Herefordshire last week, going to Greece in May, and again Greece in September, Mexico in December - and thinking about whether I can fit another week in a cottage (preferably without the rain!) sometime.

He sounds a bit up himself then.

I'm with the BF, I'd rather go less frequently but travel more luxuriously. BUTA I am married with kids now and don't have the appetite for 2* motels, when I was younger, as I assume they are, it was definitely more about quantity than quality!

We do 2 weeks at Easter, 2 weeks in summer and recently 10 days-2 weeks at Christmas plus odd long weekends here and there.

We don't eat out a lot, don't buy take aways & take our own food to work.

It's what we enjoy 😊

It would be nice to see the world but I can’t justify to myself the impact of flying more than once every couple of years.

We're not on huge salaries, but we like to travel abroad whenever we can. I aim for 3 times a year roughly - a couple of one-week holidays, and a weekend break. If I could I'd go on holiday every time I had leave!

I’d say travel before you have kids! I have weeks off work at a time and pre kids I travelled every time I was off pretty much. I miss it sooo much! With the first DS I tried to keep my old lifestyle up but it’s not worth it with kids imo. We’re from Scandinavia so we go back at least twice a year so that’ll be our holidays for the next few years ( until I forget how much hassle it is to travel with kids and I’ll book another holiday..)
We just got back from a skiing holiday and it was hard work, awful flights both ways as they were delayed so at the moment I don’t want to travel at all until the kids are at least 8-10.. Now I don’t think it was worth it but give me a few days and I’ll just remember the good bits 😅

I hope you get better soon. In the meantime, try to do fun things in your home town / city on your days off.

I have just had to spend Easter weekend at home due to an upcoming medical procedure and I made sure I did lots of fun things, for example I took myself to the theatre twice, ate great food and went on some lovely walks. :)

Depends on your life stage and finances. In my 20/30s I was in the same camp - if I wasn't at work I wanted to be on a beach!! Now I'm older and have 2DC and life is different with other responsibilities.

3-4, I’m with your DD!
Last year we did Florida, Spain and Dubai.
This year we’re doing Rome, Portugal and New York.
Next year I’m thinking Mexico/ Carribean/ Maldives (not booked yet), Majorca and Athens.

We’re limited because a huge chunk of our annual leave goes on DS while he’s off on school holidays. For example today was booked off work and I spent most of it doing housework. Boring! Not everyone has kids but I’m envious of anyone who gets to use all their time off for things like holidays! Your DD should absolutely make the most of it.

Currently we do one week abroad and one week camping in the UK (plus a few long weekends). Ideally we’d do a second week abroad later in the year as well but even with the funds we couldn’t get the time off sadly.

I'm on your daughter's side! If she can afford it she should do it. Before other life commitments get in the way.

I'm currently not long back from my third holiday this year. I confess though, this has been 3 long weekends in the UK. Cheap and cheerful. Change of scenery. Change of routine.

I agree with your DD. I assume young and childess? At that time, I literally didn't take a single day of leave unless it was for travelling.

DH is of the opinion that one abroad holiday a year is enough, he also likes to do a couple of UK breaks which I'm happy with as there's some lovely places in the UK. In order to get my travel fix I also go on trips with friends & adult DS which DH doesn't have an issue with so all happy. Could your DD do a couple of trips with friends or family (you?!).

I'm with your DD , hopefully she's travelling with friends or solo, if her bf wants to stay at home 😅