Do you like going to the same place on holiday?

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When I was younger I used to love seeing different places and travelled (not extensively) and worked abroad.. However, now I am happy to go to the same place on holiday.
I think because me and DH both have stressful jobs, I like to go somewhere I can wind down straight away.
My friend thinks I am boring and missing out but I have no desire to see other places.
I once went on a weekend with her and was exhausted as she had a packed timetable.
I was the same when younger but now menopause has hit I can't be bothered.
We have a family apartment in a lovely rural area of Spain and just go there now. Same place in the UK too.
Occasionally it is nice to go somewhere new but as I get older I just want to relax on holiday.

Oh, can some of ypu reveal where you go back to every year? Especially if its short haul. Thanks.

We have an AI hotel that we love and trust have been to multiple times, with an AI break being all about the hotel I find this important. But on the whole no we do try to go to different places for the other types of holidays.

My goal is to be financially fluid enough to be able to go to our trusty AI holiday once a year for our sun, pool, beach and cocktails, our relaxation break. And enough for our more adventurous "seeing the world" holiday. Alas we usually have to do one or the other and the latter usually wins. One day!

I hate going back to the same place twice but we used to when the dc were little because it was easy and when dc are small you just want the easy option! Some friends of ours had a villa in Spain with its own pool and let us have it super cheap, they also had their own car that was left in one of those external airport car parks where you call them on arrival and they’d be waiting to drive you to the car park by the time you got outside. So convenient and our friends were so kind to let us use it, so well equipped, they had young grandchildren so the house was safe and secure for small dc (things like high chairs, they had toys, bed guard things, all the sort of stuff that makes life easier when you’re away from home.
Dh quite likes the familiarity and comfort of knowing where everything is and would happily go back to the same places we’ve been before but now everyone is older we don’t. There’s more places I’d like to visit than we will ever have time/money to, so if we can at least chip away at them we do.
I do understand why people
revisit the same places, we’ve travelled to places where I’ve really enjoyed but the idea of going back just makes me feel a bit stifled in some way.

We are like you OP. We have a holiday house in Spain - come 6 times a year. I love not packing and not coming home with dirty washing.
Everyone starts to relax the minute we arrive and the kids can be independent because they know their way around.
We do seem to discover something new every time.

I know what you mean though … are we missing out adventure?? For me relaxation is the key at this time in life.

A bit of both. We love exploring new places, but through my work I get a very significant discount to travel to just a select few places, so we've been to some of those a few times, although mixing up where we stay and what we do when we get there each time.

My parents go to the same apartment in the same British seaside town for 2 weeks every year and do the exact same schedule of excursions out from there every year. I couldn't cope with that.

I go to the same place every January, the hotel is lovely, the weather is warm and lots of other people go there the same few weeks every year so we have all become good friends. It is a week AI where I do nothing but read and enjoy the weather and company. I also go visit family abroad every year and obviously that's in the same place.

I also like to travel to new places but have to save up for that as the holidays are much more expensive so I only go every 2 years.

If I can sneak in a few weekends away I do to new places.

Bit of both. We love new places but there is a small town in France that has become a bit of a special place to us, so we try and go for a few days each year.

We tend to pair it with wider visits to new cities and places in the general area as well.

I go back to the same place abroad, it's like a second home and has so many wonderful memories (must be over 25 years now). DP likes exploring and luckily he travels for work so gets the best of both worlds.
In the UK we go lots of different places .

As a child we always went to the same place, my DM's home town in Italy. It happened to be a seaside resort so very lucky. We stayed a month every year. As an adult DH and I also went there, and then took our children when they were little. As all the rellies died out we have found somewhere else to go, albeit still in Italy, and now go there all the time!

So I haven't really travelled, it makes me too anxious. I have to take Kalms even now, when I know where I am going.

It's just the person I am. I need predictability. The only other place I will go is Switzerland, which is also familiar, but now too expensive sadly.

I cant cope with heat, so anywhere above 21 degrees means lying at the pool for me doing nothing. For this reason, I do repeat 'sunny' holidays, like the same hotel resort in Tenerife is fine as I wouldn't be exploring the local area anyway. I also, wrongly maybe, think a beach is a beach ⛱️

I love winter city breaks though, and will always choose somewhere new!

We have one place we go annually. As soon as we get there I can relax. We know our way around, so no stressful guessing what somewhere will be like. Booking is quick and easy too.

There is somewhere else we go every few years but further away, similar reasons.

Occasional other holidays too, though since covid have only done our yearly place.

Bit of both - I like going back to loved holiday places and also seeing new places. And I am becoming a bit more adventurous again now the kids are older and have a list of places I want to take them. But if I had an apartment in rural Spain I’d probably just want to go there! Whereabouts is it OP?

Autistic family here. Same UK break always. It suits our needs and the more familiar the DC became with the location the easier holidays became.

I can't imagine ever going back to the same place twice but understand why it works for some. I've travelled extensively all over the world, Asia, North and South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe. I'm always reading the next article on the next exciting place to visit! My only restriction is money and I feel guilty about flying so don't go away very often but when I do go it's special.

If you’ve travelled the world extensively, you must have travelled quite ‘often’

I'm old, I backpacked literally for years in my 20's/30's. That said, I didn't fly often, stayed for months in different countries and travelled by train and bus, bit of hitch hiking. Literally only go away about once every 5 years or so now.

We do a mix and we've literally just asked our adult kids and partners if they fancy 10 days together in a villa in a place we love for the 5 th time.
They have said yes instantly and they are mid twenties so it's not an age thing for us.
It's a chilling time when you know the place well

I don't like going to the same place on holiday. I've travelled a bit but not extensively, so I feel like there is so much more of the world to discover. We have young dcs, and I want them to be able to experience lots of different countries and cultures too. We have been on short breaks within the UK to the same place, and we go to visit family abroad once a year, but for our main holiday it's part of the fun to pick a new destination to go to. Our holidays aren't relaxing, they are exhausting but I find that satisfying when we've packed a lot in and all of us are tired at the end!

We like to explore new places, but with 2 DC with ASD and accompanying sensory issues we're currently a bit limited. Sometimes it's easier to go somewhere that's mostly familiar, where we know where to get food the kids will eat, we know it's not too hot etc.

We would always try to see different things, though, even if we go to the same area a couple of times.

As the kids get older they're becoming more adaptable, so we're hoping we can start expanding our horizons a little.

DH's family all go on holiday every year to the same town, stay in the same apartments and eat at the same restaurant - personally I couldn't do that, but they like to know exactly what to expect when they go away. They also spend most of their time by the pool; again that wouldn't be my choice, but they're happy with it.

We used to go to Portugal with the children because it was so easy and relaxing. The children are grown up and married with children now. My eldest goes back to Portugal with his own children because he says that it's just relaxing. They're there at the moment, sending pictures and videos. I'm so envious 😂

When I was a kid I liked it when we went to places we had been before (which we quite often did - we went to Llandudno a lot for example).

As a young adult I had more of a desire for variety, and travelled, not massively extensively but to some extent - in Eastern Europe particularly, and liked more variety and adventure.

Now I have a daughter of my own she most enjoys UK seaside holidays, and I am quite happy to get back to that more chilled out vibe, and we have a few places we like visiting. We try to do new things in them each time tho - at least one new day trip or whatever. But basically a lot of repetition too!

There is absolutely no right or wrong to this - holidays are meant to be fun. And that will look different for different people.

If your friend is just teasing that's ok. If she is genuinely accusing you of being boring she should wind her neck in.

For short haul holidays for a week like Rhodes or Malta, we’ve been to the same hotel/B&B two or three times but we’ve been fortunate to go to many different countries worldwide. We like to explore new places when it’s more than a 10 day holiday and currently we’re at the very early stages of planning a month/6 week trip to SE Asia next year.

My eldest had a lot of disruption in her early years, so we partly made a conscious decision to go back to the same place for a number of years to help with feelings of stability and to build positive childhood memories.

I like to see different things but often do the same kind of holiday. So often it's a city break followed by a couple of days relaxation afterwards somewhere rural. We like to take our time, not rushing from one museum/attraction to the next but going back to the hotel or appartment for a nap or a nice break with a drink before continuing.
Afterwards it's ideally a beach/lake where we just hang out and go for walks.

That's not stressful and I love finding new things to see and eat out somewhere new.

Holidays with lots of things planned are good but not every year.

I often find holidays planned by people on MN spend next to no time in each destination. We take 5 days and others do 2. We don’t rush but we really like to travel. We love wildlife holidays but don’t do exactly the same place and animals. We like variety and that’s cities too.

The more you travel, the more things I find to marvel at. Museums can be wonderful. As can architecture, restaurants and the landscape. I have little in common with people who do nothing but sit by a pool and worse, aren’t interested in seeing anything else. Self limiting - I do have a holiday home but will probably sell soon.