Do you think some people are almost addicted to holidaysvand holiday planning?

[Travelfairy]

I think I am one of these people 🙈

I always have to have something to look forward to. I love travelling, not just holidaying. I love big road trips, exploring places off the beaten track etc but my kids tease me for booking a holiday on a holiday. I do this almost always 🙈 we are just back from a huge holiday touring around Canada. I already have a trip in Sept with DH & DD in Oct. Just squeezed in a short family break in Ireland before both of those for August bank holiday in Ireland (where we live).

Now looking at NYC for Dec 🙈 sometimes I wonder am I trying to escape my day to day life 🙈🙈

Yes! My OH! He’s always looking at Skyscanner etc. I have to reign him in because I don’t have the funds/holidays etc 🤣

Yes it is an addiction. The high and then the low and on and on.

Yes, it's escapism from day to day life. And I guess planning it is part of that.
I suppose it's a bit like any other sort of hobby.

Yes. Me. Unusually I only have one booked right now and have calmed myself to wait until
It's over to book the next.

We are proud co-dependent addicts and after 2.5 decades of bringing up 6 kids and 4 grandkids that still take up a huge amount of our lives (and finances) holidays are our vice.

Last year we went to the Maldives, and travelled all around Vietnam DIY and Hong Kong-. As well as a Slovakia train road trip.
hours and hours and hours of planning online and YouTube to perfect the itineraries.

This year we have been to Egypt and Greece (road trip Crete) and have an Andalusian road trip planned also as well as Dublin and Krakow long weekends.

again while weekends bottoming them out.

Nest year we are doing an America road trip , Jamaica and also the Seychelles on a DIY basis

We earn loads between us but our addiction is such DH does all the overtime he can and I have a second early morning job to fund all these wonderful trips. We also side hustle with car boots and reselling so up at 5am every Sunday !

I love the planning. It’s my hobby.
After years of camping/caravanning with all kids peppered with abroad AI holidays cheap n cheerful as we were so many ( and always took our parents) it’s our time now !!!!

Yes we tend to do multiple short breaks in Europe rather than longhaul but I have just done the last one planned for this year and have nothing else booked (apart from our usual summer break which needs no planning apart from booking a couple of restaurants).

Have lots of ideas but an elderly family member is terminally ill so not committing to anything at the moment.

Yes - dh really, he plans things to look forward to when he's busy at work and he needs a break. It used to be gadget shopping, now it's special dinners out/weekend trips. I enjoy it - but I don't feel the need like he does.

My friend 100% and yes, I'm pretty driven by holidays but not sure I'm addicted. It's certainly though where I choose to spend my money over anything else!

I think this is me. Currently have 5 holidays booked and a short break and still searching for more and trying to squeeze them in around our other trips. It’s a compulsion

Me!!! We've just got back and we have two more short abroad trips this year, a city break in Feb and I've booked our summer one for next year already . We work so much it gives us something to look forward to. Once I've booked somewhere I love researching it, finding good restaurants, looking at You Tube videos of the area. If I'm having a rubbish day I think of our next break and feel happy. We do spend all our spare cash on going away. I think part of it is I lost my parents to illness at a young age. Our DC are adults and life is very short. YOLO!

Yes! I love to have trips booked, whether it's a full family holiday, a camping weekend or just a night away in a UK city. I work full-time and so I want nice things to look forward to!

This is me! I love an itinery and planning short breaks here and abroad. Dont do beaches or southern hemisphere.
We have 5 breaks before the end of the year...dh retires at Xmas so very excited about next year's travels.
We love secret/ weird/ quirky places in a city or area.

Yep, me.
So far this year ( been or booked)
city break to Gdansk
week in south Devon
week in North Devon
Road trip from Vilnius, to Riga, to Tallinn then flying back from Helsinki
week in Romania ( Bucharest and Brasov)
pre Christmas week in Valencia

5 new countries.

I think people who do this are generally unsatisfied and unhappy, unable to live in the moment.

This is also us. 5 holidays this year, it's what we spend every single penny on. We've spent hours researching and planning 1 holiday for this year as it has a huge itinerary. The house desperately needs work doing to it, all cosmetic eg painting. But who looks back on their life and remembers how lovely the walls were painted !

What rubbish!

Yup, that’s me. Got my next three big holidays booked and now deep into planning the 4th. The only reason I’ve not booked it is because the flights haven’t been released yet. As soon as they are, I’ll be in. Oh, and I’ve got Lapland with the grandkids all planned out for 2027.

Yes and I feel no guilt. I don’t like handbags or designer clothes. My money which I work incredibly hard for goes on holidays. I like to have my next 5 booked and get antsy if I don’t. I currently have 7 booked plus some uk trips which are nice but don’t count in my opinion

I’ve never been very interested in travel, probably due to being bogged down for decades in single motherhood, being skint, looking after others and working it all seemed so far out of reach I put it to the back of my mind. Now my children are grown and I’m in a better financial situation I’ve booked my first ever holiday abroad, a short city break to ease myself in. Holding that passport in my hand has sparked something in me and I’m thinking about the places I can now go and things I can do and it’s very exciting so I can see how people get addicted but what is the harm.

I like the planning of them more than I enjoy the actual holiday. I think life can be quite mundane and miserable a lot of the time so people feel they need regular things to look forward to.

I just booked our next two holidays while on holiday! It makes it nicer going home to know you have another holiday on the horizon somewhere I think. And I think it’s one of the best uses of our ‘luxury’ money. We don’t need more stuff but we can always use more life experiences and exploring!

Hear hear!

DH travelled round the world for close to 2 years between his 2 degrees. We went overseas and sometimes multiple times from 1998 to now with a 2 year break in 2020. Now newly retired we have a Motorhome, I’m sat in it in Devon currently. We have been away for a month in total out of last 3. Would have been longer but MIL was diagnosed with Cancer so he stayed with her for a few weeks. Will be away again for Sept and some of October. Then the plan is the continent for the 3 months allowed. We will either come back or may apply for the French 6 months long stay visa or pop in to a non Schengen country. So yes we like being away.

I love holidays, & have as many as I can.
Isn't everyone the same ?

Hardly makes me an addict.

Life is short! Book the holidays and enjoy every second