How essential are holidays?

Dan:_4

Usually holiday abroad 3 or 4 times a year and would not give it up for anyone.

wageslave

penguin83 wrote: »

Im the same as you Wageslave - holidays do nothing for me. I haven't been on hoilday since I was 12 and have never been abroad. I love days out though and would much rather go somewhere for the day and be home to my own bed by nighttime! x x

I do actually do holidays mostly because I decided when I left my marriage that my daughter should and would have all the things she would have had in a two parent family.

I didn't and dont want her to suffer for my mistakes. Though inevitably she has.

So off we trot at least once a year. I hate it but it seems a small price to pay to please her.

It costs a bliddy fortune though if you actually count it up.

Cleaver

treliac wrote: »

A few weeks more and the adverts will start coming thick and fast for 2010 holidays.

How important is it to have a holiday (one at least a year)? With the economy in tatters are people going to be changing their habits, either through choice or force of finances?

Although it isn't essential and we would obviously go without a holiday if we hit hard times, it's probably the last thing I would want to cut out. We love our holidays. Don't really care if it's a fortnight travelling around a far-flung country or a weekend camping in a country park down the road, it's just ace to do something different and see new places.

We generally like to go to a new place each time we go away, or at least see somewhere in a different way if we do go back to the same place.

PasturesNew

Holidays are a luxury, not an essential.

I'd love one, but I've never known anybody to go away with and I'd rather poke my eyes with hot needles than travel alone and mingle with annoying strangers. It's also horrendously expensive to travel alone, so another reason not to.

wageslave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Holidays are a luxury, not an essential.

I'd love one, but I've never known anybody to go away with and I'd rather poke my eyes with hot needles than travel alone and mingle with annoying strangers. It's also horrendously expensive to travel alone, so another reason not to.

Come with us next year PN. I would love another adult along.

We went to New York this year.

Now the brat is older, I tell her our budget and she picks our destination and does all the research and booking over the internet.

All you have to do is turn up. She organises everything else to an inch.

carolt

PasturesNew wrote: »

Holidays are a luxury, not an essential.

I'd love one, but I've never known anybody to go away with and I'd rather poke my eyes with hot needles than travel alone and mingle with annoying strangers. It's also horrendously expensive to travel alone, so another reason not to.

Or meet exciting new people, enjoy holiday romance, etc?

I had fantastic holiday on my own before I met my OH - round Scandinavia. Love Copenhagen, can't wait to go back.

Cleaver

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd rather poke my eyes with hot needles than travel alone and mingle with annoying strangers.

As I've said before on here, it's nice that we're all different. I've travelled alone with work quite a lot and I love meeting different people from other cultures. Great fun.

michaels

I budget about 6k for holidays pa (2 weeks seeing in-laws in JA, Antigua or Florida plus a long weekend snowboading) - this year with no 3 arriving in Feb I used most of my leave on paternity and odd days looking after the mrs and kids and a long weeekend to my folks in Devon - has done wonders for the bank balance but it is a bit soul destroying. If we ever get to move I suspect we may need to be a bit more frugal and Devon may feature more often

lostinrates

PN, go with wageslave, I bet she'd be great fun. Travelling is fun, but I imagine daunting if you've never really done it, so going with someone probably more ''safe'' feeling.

You get to see all different things, attitudes and oppertunites, how different countries tackle the same and different problems, and different food, architecture, politics, problems: and relaise how not different we all are.

wageslave

lostinrates wrote: »

PN, go with wageslave, I bet she'd be great fun. Travelling is fun, but I imagine daunting if you've never really done it, so going with someone probably more ''safe'' feeling.

You get to see all different things, attitudes and oppertunites, how different countries tackle the same and different problems, and different food, architecture, politics, problems: and relaise how not different we all are.

Well I dont know about great fun, I am very easy going though. Very little bothers me.

The brat has some definite ideas about things though.