Can't stop booking holidays....is this normal?

[SpiritualKnot]

Flipping' heck think I'm going mad! Have been married 16 years and not had even one holiday for the first 15 years. Last year I went to Jersey with my 7 year old daughter for a fortnight..husband and son didn't come as they wanted to stay at home.

Since then I've gone holiday crazy! Stayed in a Youth hostel for 2 nights in December and am going back there for a night in February..after a show in the town. I've going to Jersey again for a bellydance (my hobby), weekend in February, going back to Jersey at Easter for 6 days with my daughter. Going to a nearby seaside resort in April for a dance weekend (only ?39 accommodation and tuition!).

Going to York for 3 nights with daughter in May. Going to another bellydance weekend with daughter in June,staying in a hotel in Bradford for 2 nights with all family in July (attending a wedding so this is needed), going camping for a week in July/August with daughter, going to nearby seaside resort in September with daughter for weekend.

This is so excessive, every time I see a cheap break/bargain, I find I'm checking my diary. My excuse to the husband is that I'm booking these things on the weekends he's on nights so it gets us out of the way for him to sleep. But I find I'm trawling the web for bargains all the time.

Travel lodge are doing some nights at ?15 a night, so I keep looking at those now to see when I can go...

How can I curb this obsession? I work full-time and have 2 kids, so it's not like I don't have better things to do!

I must admit I LOVE going away with my daughter - we really embrace everything that we go to, but is all this going away bad? I daren't even look at my bank balance. I pay upfront and spend hardly anything when we go away...but all the same..

Anyway I'm looking for advice on how to stop this..any tips?

It seems to me when you get to 30 trips you should ease up - that's only 2 trips per year overall!

You'd have to eat, heat the house etc. if you stayed at home, so not all the money is extra anyway.

Travel is good.

Good on you! - to be honest
It would apear that your enjoying yourself and not hurting anybody.
What about your son though, and DH aswell - are you not planning anything as a family all together?
As with anything that we enjoy (hobbies, drinking, other vices, lurking on Mumsnet ;)etc;)- these things can get out of hand if we let them - don't become too addicted to travel that you begin to spend money you don't have for example, or spend less time with the family as aresult of your searchin.
Other than that - what are you doing wrong? maybe you feel guilty because you didn't go anywhere for so long - and thats why you feel your have to justify yourself?

My son is 15 and has loadsa nice friends and a paper-round and he's just at that age where he likes to be at home. My husband gets holidays but doesn't like hotels, can't fly and generally says that he doesn't do holidays!

However, I'm working on it..took him for a romantic night in a hotel for Christmas, which he loved and he's booked to stay at the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool with my son, to see James Taylor in April..

When my daughter and I get back from our trips, he seems quite envious of our little outings. Maybe they'll come with us sometime...but I'm not holding my breath...