Same place twice?

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We've just returned from a lovely holiday. The hotel was perfect, there were lots of lovely places to eat and loads to do. The hotel was probably the nicest one we've stayed in. We are just browsing for next year. There are so many lovely places and we've never returned to the same hotel twice but we are seriously considering it this time. Have you/would you go back? Going away is so expensive and there is always a gamble with going somewhere new but there are so many places to try!

Puerto Rico is one of my favourite places and we’ve been 4 times in the last 3 years and going back next month. I haven’t stayed at marina suites but saw it whilst leaving the harbour and it looks lovely. Have stayed in Gloria palace Amadores and holiday club Puerto calma. Both were fab.

We are also going back to Gran Canaria for the second time this summer, although we last visited in 2023. The kids love it and it was highly recommended on here.

I’ve been to the same hotel in Dubai twice and two very close together in Cape Town. I’ve worked it out I need a five year gap before returning.

Did it once. Second time all the imperfections stood out, nowhere near as good.

Generally I think there's too much to see and experience. Feels a waste to go to the same place.

If you get a bad one that's part of game. There's a particularly bad one that always springs to mind, but that's the one with most stories and memories.

After much debate and internet searching We are going back to same hotel 3rd year in a row next month - it catered for our needs brilliantly in terms of facilities and room, it's cheaper b&b than most self catering options, fantastic beach and the kids loved it.
Short and sensible flight times and short transfer was another factor.

Could go anywhere spain/greece/Portugal and get similar so figured go somewhere we know we like and suits our needs.

No but I was just saying yesterday i wish I could find somewhere nice and easy to go for a week in the sun that had a short airport transfer, places to wander to for a meal/coffee nearby, a nice pool with perhaps a few kids for the boy to play with and crucially no sunbed wards, then I would go back. So if anyone knows anywhere like that please tell me!

It depends what you’re after. RnR with sunshine, maybe go back, I don’t sunbathe or chilli on holiday so I want novelty, except skiing, then I will go more than once to a resort.

We usually try different places but there is one hotel in Thailand that we love and have been to 4 times now. New places are great, but I love the fact that I can relax as soon as we get there. We know the food, the pools, the breakfast place, gym, spa - all amazing and the familiarity is lovely.

We used to go there a lot. Go to Kassiopi now. As well as other places but love Kassiopi.

Tombola Thalasso in Tuscany.

We used to go to a lovely place close to a lake in Italy. We went 4 years running first 2 weeks of August and every year we saw the same family from Germany and the same family from Austria. All of them just loved practicing their English on us.

We went to a fabulous hotel in Turkey that we’ll go back to, though will go to other places too

We've been to the exact same villa in Karpathos twice.

Also been to Disney world four times, twice at the same hotel.

It's fine.

Where were your GC ones? We love the island

Just booked Playa blanca in Lanzerote for xmas...fingers crossed

I’ve been back to countries / places, but I don’t think I’ve stayed in the same hotel. There’s one hotel in Crete whose breakfast I think about on a weekly basis 😂. Only went in 2024, and I no longer live in Europe, so it will be a while yet before I go back.

We have different kinds of holiday each year. We have the "absolutely relaxing, feels like home from home" holiday, where we have been to the same place for multiple years. And then we have the adventurous holidays, where we do visit a new place. This type is often a city break or a trip to a distant place (so, most recently, to Japan), whereas the "familiar break" is always a winter sun week in Hawaii, a skiing week in the same place, some summer time on Nantucket, and a mediterranean summer break to my husband's home town where we still have family and have an apartment. We stay in the same places every single time.
As a child we did this too - we went to the same Welsh town to stay in the same holiday cottage every year until I moved out to go to university. And my mother had been to the same town every year as a child, and also stayed in the same cottage. I loved it - the familiar walk around the harbour, visiting the same ice-cream place, the same castles, the same beaches. I have such good memories of building sandcastles on the beach with my grandmother. I actually dream of taking my own family back there (we now live in the US, so it would be more of a hike).
I find the "new places" vacations enjoyable but often tiring. I find the "home from home" vacations utterly relaxing. Looking at the thread, I see that I am the odd one out, which surprises me.

We really enjoyed Puerto Mogan and stayed once at Cordial hotel, and another time at one of their self catering apartments.
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I used to think it was strange to go back to the same place twice but we've been staying in the same house in France most years for the last 12 years. We usually do a week there and a week somewhere else in France that we haven't visited before. We've just never found anywhere else that suits us so well. Since first visiting, both my DC have been diagnosed with autism so it makes sense that a familiar place works better for us.

- we went to the same Welsh town to stay in the same holiday cottage every year until I moved out to go to university. And my mother had been to the same town every year as a child, and also stayed in the same cottage. I loved it - the familiar walk around the harbour, visiting the same ice-cream place, the same castles, the same beaches. I have such good memories of building sandcastles on the beach with my grandmother. I actually dream of taking my own family back there

We did that with Scarborough, although not the same cottage. All our childhood holidays were there along with extended family and we took our children there from 0 to about 13 where they played with my cousins children. We're not a big or close family so it was a rare treat for the DC. As adults we've occasionally booked a weekend in a nice apartment and adult DC have joined us.

How often have you returned?

I was about to say hell no but then realised that we have done twice. Once to the same hotel in Paris, as we knew that it was cheap, well-located, and had parking, and we also went back to a spa hotel for a weekend break when they repeated their off-season offer.

My guess is it's probably more common in large cities where people would need to make multiple visits to see the sights and might come for events also.

I recently stayed in a hotel in a large European city that sounded just like the one you mention here, albeit didn't need parking. You know the sort, great base and ticking all the boxes. I'll likely go to that city again at some point, and would definitely pick that same hotel. There's less scope for variation when you only really need location and value.

20 years😃

Not a hotel/resort but most of my childhood holidays were to the same place (the house my mum grew up in) and I've taken my children there several times too (5 times for DD, twice for DS). I never get tired of it and hope I'll carry on going with future grandchildren one day.

My Dream, is to have the budget for sufficient holidays that I can find a place and a hotel we like and return to regularly! Literally, it's a dream.

I love the idea of somewhere that starts to feel like a home away from home.

For us, we just don't go on enough holidays and usually we're hugely restricted by costs and timing. But one day there will that gorgeous hotel by the sea that I go to every year, am greeted happily by long-standing staff members and never have to figure out the best place for an afternoon cocktail again.