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When did your teenagers stop coming on holiday?

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TimeToSleeeeep · 02/08/2023 11:42

I have friends who still take 22 year.old and 19 year old on holiday each time. Can I expect the same when the time comes?

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Aurora2023 · 02/08/2023 16:51

My daughter stopped at 15. Now she's 20 she's been coming with me only for a week in September since she was 18 to recover from festival season and says this is happening every year (I get to pay, obviously 🙄)

Bouledeneige · 02/08/2023 18:45

If they fancy it they will come. So my DD23 came to New York and both her and DS would come if I was planning to go to Japan, Australia, Vietnam or Laos. Northumberland? Pembrokeshire? No.

MoonLion · 02/08/2023 18:47

I have three teens, the eldest is 17yo. They're all on holiday with us this year and we'll be happy to keep taking them for as long as they want to come.

Dixiechickonhols · 02/08/2023 21:24

Mine’s 17 and still very keen to come as we pay and it’s USA where she loves. I suspect she’ll come with us for next few years at least. We all get on well and enjoy similar things.

Parsleymint · 02/08/2023 21:35

Mine both came abroad with us up to 22/20. After that the younger one came up to 24.
Now they both come on a UK break at least once a year and they are 25 and 27.
Long may it continue.

Motheranddaughter · 02/08/2023 23:12

Ours are 19 and 22 ,are always invited,and come to the ones they fancy (
abroad especially USA) and decline the ones they don’t (mainly Scottish islands)
They come/don’t come as a team and we always pay
They have other holidays with pals
DH and I enjoy the holidays we have alone very much,but enjoy being with the DC very much too
It won’t be forever 🤣🤞

mondaytosunday · 02/08/2023 23:43

Last holiday I went with my parents I was 17.
Im taking my 18 and 20 year old to the States to see family at Christmas, and Spain next year. If my eldest had a girlfriend he might have gone on his own though he would be too young still to rent a car (we have a house there and you need a car).
But other than the odd weekend we haven't been on holiday so to speak since before covid. We did a mini cruise to Bruge/Amsterdam last year that's it.
I had a couple friends who went away with their extended families well into their 30s, neither had partners or kids. I thought that a bit odd.

Mother87 · 03/08/2023 13:51

lemonyellows · 02/08/2023 11:52

I think it depends on who is paying and if they have better alternatives 😂

Exactly thisGrin

BlossomCloud · 03/08/2023 13:57

I still went, when I could (around work/uni/volunteering) until my early twenties, because I had younger siblings and my parents booked cool holidays like watersports/yachting, so things I was keen to do

Runaround50 · 03/08/2023 14:59

Next week will be the final family holiday with DD18 and DS 15.

DS is going to be grumpy.. I just know it!! Why is he coming you may ask? No fucking clue tbh 🙈🙈

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 03/08/2023 15:02

Dd is 18 and is coming with us this year. I anticipate that she will want to keep coming with us for the next few years while she is a student, and I am happy to keep paying for her. She will probably go away with her friends as well, as she did this year.

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