What age did your kids stop wanting to go on holiday with you ?

[Lardlizard]

Just out of interest I’m guessing it’s a bit influenced by what type of holiday it is ?

...my parents stopped wanting to pay for me long before I stopped wanting to go

I would always want them to come, however I would be happy for them to say at home from post GCSES Age

My parents did holidays on narrowboats & by 15 I was well & truly fed up of it

My DS is 23 and still comes on holiday with me and his 7 yo sister

My 17 year old has no intention of not coming away with us. He is also going with his friends. Happy to pay for him for as long as he wants to come

I think that the time they want to start holidaying with us is the time we actually will want them to STOP holidaying with us!

DD(15) is currently on her computer picking a hotel for our family holiday in Majorca.

I'm 23 and will have two kids myself and I'm going on holiday with my parants still. Dont expect them to pay for me anymore though

18

Mine stopped wanting a 2 week family holiday at 16.
We still did city breaks and me and do still had a summer holiday

Mine still will at 16 & 18 but depends what it is. They are good company for each other too though - that makes a difference - plus a week is enough for a beach type holiday with all of us now!

About 13-14. It simply became uncool. We went on a cruise last year and he was the most unhappy. He also go into extinction rebellion and now believes that cruises are the work of devil.
He turned 16 recently, so i guess we'll not be taking him anymore. He'll most likely stay with relatives on a farm (if they'd have him).

I wish there were kennels for teenagers. Plug them into unlimited wifi, supply take-aways, and it will be the best holiday they could ever wish.

They haven’t, even after some have left home. We always invite them and if they are on a break at Uni, they invariably come.

I stopped wanting to holiday with my own parents at 14 - actually left a holiday (also a narrow boat by coincidence Grandmasharksglasses ) part way through when I was 15 by mutual agreement and went home on the train! They persuaded all of their uni age and teen children (there are a few of us) to go on one last big holiday skiing in America and generously paid out in all honesty it was really awful, miserable and somehow humiliating because the ski slopes and all entertainment was a drive away from the accomodation with no public transport available, and none of us were insured to drive the hire car so we were all dependant on my dad - it was like being twelve again, not in a good way. Knowing we should be grateful made being miserable, bored, frustrated and clostrophobic so much worse!

My eldest was bored on our last family holiday for the first time, but it was a bad choice of location in an attempt to combine family obligations with a holiday, and I absolutely sympathised.

I think choosing the right holiday rather than expecting the teen to enjoy a holiday where they have less freedom and less appealing things to do than at home would mean they continue wanting to go away with the family for much longer. Since the boring holiday dc1 and I have been on a trip away together which she did enjoy - much better than being effectively stuck somewhere with limited options, no matter how scenic/ sunny/ luxurious or whatever.

I think choosing the right holiday rather than expecting the teen to enjoy a holiday where they have less freedom and less appealing things to do than at home

I honestly don't know how to appeal to a teen who finds every possible amusement not amusing. Except mindless videogames and youtube, that is.

My eldest two both stopped wanting to come at 15. We did leave the eldest one a couple of times but often came back to a mess so we’re trying to hold off a bit longer with the 2nd one. It’s hard because he’s done nothing but moan on our last couple of holidays but I really don’t want to go through the whole coming home to a messy house/worrying what they’re getting up to rigmarole. I suspect our youngest will still be coming away with us when she’s in her 20’s - she says she never wants to leave home!

16 and 23 - Still coming with us, and we still pay for both. The key though, is liking the same kind of holiday. The girls and I like lounging around the pool, or by the sea, with a good book. We might go for the occasional walk. We are basically on holiday for R&R, sun, swim, sleep, food. DH gets up early and disappears for walks for hours, drifting back for a swim, lunch and a snooze. We have separate rooms, and everyone is happy.

My oldest is only 11 but I was about 15 when I stopped going on holiday.

i wish there were kennels for teenagers - genius idea!! I’d subscribe to that!

A recent thread about holidays got me thinking about this, because I don't think I had a family holiday after the age of about 14 - and my own DD is 13 now, but I can't imagine her not coming with us for a few years yet.

Ill-health caused my family holidays to stop early, and we do pick places and things to do that will interest our DD so she's never complained about holidays. She has been away twice with the school, a Y6 residential here and a secondary school trip abroad, and enjoyed both.

We have had a few weekends away with extended family as well which DD enjoys. We live a fair distance from any of our family and they never visit our home so travel is necessary, although I do really resent spending money on hotels to visit family tbh (only 1 out of our 4 siblings have ever visited our current home!) because I'd rather spend it on a holiday even though I'm quite happy to skip a holiday if we need the money for anything else

They haven’t !!! DS19 and Dd 17 . Dd has brought her BoyF with us the last 3 years and Ds will bring his gf from Uni this year so a full holiday. TBH it’s always good fun but we are not sit around the pool types and go on adventures to weird places.This year will be great as we can share driving! Evenings we tend to do drinks pre dinner and do our own thing 70% of the time,but we have great holidays & so far and DC always want to come and would think it odd if they weren’t included.

Mine is 16 and I think this year will be the last year, the last few years we done city breaks rather than beachy holidays to get DD a bit more excited which seems to work. We just booked Barcelona and she seems fine. Last year I felt we dragged her around Amsterdam and she spent more time texting her friends so was very surprised when she told us when we came home that she enjoyed it! Almost fell of my chair tbh!

Still waiting (mine are 23, 21, and 18)
Doesn't always happen due to trying to get dates to co-ordinate, etc, or enough leave from work, but if they can make it work they are still up for it.