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My cultural child - first holiday

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pinkbubblebath · 29/08/2021 11:40

We're lucky enough to be on holiday. It’s such a beautiful place by the sea and amazing pool with loads of entertainment for the kids. Big restaurant with lovely local food on offer.

So far my one year old has played with rocks, and eaten baked beans.

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Timeturnerplease · 30/08/2021 08:06

My dad unearthed an old video of us discussing our favourite past holidays when we were younger. We were privileged enough to have stayed in some excellent hotels and visited some wonderful places. Verdicts:

Me (age 15): Barbados, because of the hammocks on the balcony.
DSis1 (age 13): The villa in Florida - it had alligators on the golf course outside.

All looking good so far. Then….

DB (age 11): The place when we went to see Grandad and it had those stair chair things.
DSis2 (age 5): Yes! And milk in little cups!

This was a grotty B&B in Morecambe booked last minute 🤦🏻‍♀️

NoYOUbekind · 30/08/2021 08:50

@OlivesTree

Snap *@toomuchlaundry*

Took our kids on a month-long trip to Singapore and Australia. Their best bit was the pancake machine at the breakfast buffet in the hotel in Singapore.

We had a close second this year with the all you can eat breakfast buffet at Premier Inn.

To be fair @OlivesTree I stayed in a Hilton with one of those pancake machines and it was the best weekend ever. Really only second to a whole week in Chicago with a waffle maker in the breakfast room...
Cuddlywaterfall · 30/08/2021 09:23

These are ace and make me feel so much better!
We had a holiday in France a few years ago with a then-5YO DS. Best thing about the holiday? Not the infinity pool, the wonderful food, the sunshine, the beach, no. It was helping Grandpa change a lightbulb Confused

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pinkbubblebath · 30/08/2021 09:33

So glad this thread is full of funny and reassuring stories! Think it just goes to show children find happiness and fun in the simplest of things Halo

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Twinstudy · 30/08/2021 10:33

My parents took us to London when I was about six. Im assured we did loads of wonderful and exciting things but all I remember is watching star wars in the hotel room Grin

SoupDragon · 30/08/2021 10:44

There are so many threads with people planning holidays and thinking that their child needs X, Y or Z when really all they need is a car park with a pigeon in it.

OlivesTree · 30/08/2021 10:51

Oh you win @NoYOUbekind. 😄

I won’t tell my kids. They’ll feel robbed.

EdithGrantham · 30/08/2021 10:54

@HumbugWhale

I have taken many, many kids to all sorts of interesting places on school trips. I honestly think most of them would be happy to just have an hour or so on the coach with their mates, stop at the motorway services to go to the loo and get and McDonald's and then get back on the coach home Grin
Definitely agree with this, although one reception child was quite taken with "the unicorn with two horns" on a trip to the farm (it was a goat)
Fivebyfive2 · 30/08/2021 11:13

@Persipan, omg we took our 18 month old to the zoo a few weeks back and he was obsessed with the ducklings, he just wanted to follow them around! He also tried to pick up bits of bread people threw on the floor for them for himself 😂🤦‍♀️

Greenandcabbagelooking · 31/08/2021 13:25

@SoupDragon

There are so many threads with people planning holidays and thinking that their child needs X, Y or Z when really all they need is a car park with a pigeon in it.
You forgot the essential ingredient to make a child's holiday dreams come true. Gravel.
UnsolicitedDickPic · 31/08/2021 22:14

@Hellocatshome I'm going to pick up a bag of gravel tomorrow on the way home from work and give DD the adventure of her life this weekend. Grin

Fauvist · 31/08/2021 22:26

I took my kid to a really nice zoo when she was about three. I really enjoyed it. She purloined a plastic spoon from the café and every time I stopped to look at some animals, she got her spoon out and made for the nearest bit of dirt, where she dug a small hole. Which she could absolutely have done in the garden at home.

Another time, DH took her out to one of those kids' farms because I had a v important work deadline and needed her out of the house. They had a great day, fed goats, saw cows milked, bouncy castle, soft play, lunch in a café, etc. He even sprung for a souvenir soft toy which I would probably have declined to purchase. He brought her home, tired but happy, and I was delighted to have finished everything I needed to do. And he said 'so what was your favourite bit about the day, DD?' She replied 'seeing Mummy when I got home'. Poor DH.

We've holidayed in the same house every year since she was a year old. She doesn't remember one single thing about the holidays before she was 7.

And my dad has recently been digitising all the family photos keeps sending us stuff saying 'where was this, what year, what country'. I'm sorry to say I can't reliably identify anything before I was about 18. Some of these photos I have no recall of at all, and I would usually think I have a fairly good memory!

HumbugWhale · 01/09/2021 15:54

I thought about this thread today after a day out at a lovely National Trust place with the dcs and their Grandma. We admired all the beautiful gardens, had a big walk, spotted fish in the river, played Pooh sticks, had a picnic and an ice cream. There was even some gravel fun to be had! When we arrived home dd raced inside to tell daddy she saw a cow doing a wee Grin

110APiccadilly · 01/09/2021 16:11

I took DB to London when he was 12 or 13 (I was an adult by then). He wanted to... go on a tram.

Had to go all the way out to Croydon as I'd told him he could pick something to do and we'd do it (and it wasn't impossible or stupidly expensive.)

We were there for a week so we did do lots of more normal activities as well!

Birdkin · 01/09/2021 16:23

Took a group of beavers on a day out to a forest, did a campfire, singing, hot dogs etc.

Their highlight? A BIN we saw from the bus window. It wasn’t even an unusual bin 🤷‍♀️

Namechangeforthis88 · 04/09/2021 21:37

To be fair, I think we all have fond memories of the Lindt pick and mix we got on Rome.

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