Does anyone else not go on holiday

merlinormartin

Not necessarily. Don't assume that just because people go away a few times a year they are paying for it on credit.

:T:T:T:T

We go long haul 3/4 times per year ,, we dont drink, smoke, never decline Over Time, v really buy new clothes and surf the web for many hour before we buy anything.

Growing the only holiday we had was camping or butlins,,, some of my best memories come from those holidays

RoxieW

mrcow wrote: »

Ooo I do!

I love broadening my horizons. I think that's what horizons are there for.

My biggest nightmare would to be like Harold Steptoe looking back on his life:

"What have I done? Nothing!"
"Where have I been? Nowhere!"

I never want to be one of those people whose world is so small that it disappears up my own backside.

I've slept in campervans, cars, on floors, in tents, in caravans, on boats (big and small), log cabins, motels, hotels, B&Bs, on rickety old beds, even on a cliffside. There is no place quite like home, but home will always be there to go back to. I've got some amazing memories of the places we've been and seen and wouldn't change it for the world.

I hope to pass my love of travel and adventure onto my kids. We're seeing the world together and I love it.

:beer::T my sentiments exactly

kbr

As a family we have always gone on holiday at least twice a year. My parents always saved hard to take us on a two week holiday once a year and I have continued this with my own children. We don't pay for it on credit and my children don't go without throughout the year just so we can go on holiday.

We do uk and overseas holidays and my eldest will often talk about things we did on holiday - he has a better memory than me!

My youngest is just 11mths and has already travelled to florida and turkey and also been to centreparcs. I know she won't remember it at the moment but as we like to fly, the younger she gets used to it the better.

I appreciate this isn't for everyone but it works for us and is something we enjoy!

WolfSong2000

Personally, I cannot imagine not being able to travel...I'm a student, but usually manage at least one trip a year, and love it! As a kid, I went abroad with family on occasion, but we usually went on hoiday in the UK...since I was 16, however, I've been able to travel abroad on my own/with school and have really loved it...so far have hit Prague, Russia, France, Belgium and USA a fair few times. Traveling on your own can be really, really good fun - it's all down to your attitude!

MrsE_2

kbr wrote: »

As a family we have always gone on holiday at least twice a year. My parents always saved hard to take us on a two week holiday once a year and I have continued this with my own children. We don't pay for it on credit and my children don't go without throughout the year just so we can go on holiday.

We do uk and overseas holidays and my eldest will often talk about things we did on holiday - he has a better memory than me!

My youngest is just 11mths and has already travelled to florida and turkey and also been to centreparcs. I know she won't remember it at the moment but as we like to fly, the younger she gets used to it the better.

I appreciate this isn't for everyone but it works for us and is something we enjoy!

Not many families can afford two holidays abroad every year.
Nice if you can afford it, I can only manage one (good) one.

MrsE_2

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Ahh but would you chill with 2 little ones absolutely exhausted because next door was making so much noise they couldn't sleep, or bored. Or in my case now with them fighting all the time, one of them missing their computer and x box and the other just plain bored and missing everything!!!

I only have the one child, but it was no problem taking her abroad when she was little.

She certainly never missed toys or was bored, not with a pool & a beach:)

patchwork_cat

mrcow wrote: »

Ooo I do!

I love broadening my horizons. I think that's what horizons are there for.

My biggest nightmare would to be like Harold Steptoe looking back on his life:

"What have I done? Nothing!"
"Where have I been? Nowhere!"

I never want to be one of those people whose world is so small that it disappears up my own backside.

I've slept in campervans, cars, on floors, in tents, in caravans, on boats (big and small), log cabins, motels, hotels, B&Bs, on rickety old beds, even on a cliffside. There is no place quite like home, but home will always be there to go back to. I've got some amazing memories of the places we've been and seen and wouldn't change it for the world.

I hope to pass my love of travel and adventure onto my kids. We're seeing the world together and I love it.

I find this post offensive to people who have different values . I think that to copy part of my post and make those inital comments afterwards is completley misunderstanding my post - did I not say in teh same post that I am encouraging my son to take a gap year and that maybe I will be bitten by the travel bug once again when I am older. However you chose not to paste that part of my post as it did not give you the opportunity to appear more worldly and superior than others as I have observed is your wont!

I would not dream of passing judgement on others descions. I just don't want to slum it on holiday - simple. I am not a steptoe I believe I am defined by what I have done, NOT where I visited and observed. Leave each to their own and if the OP does not want to/ can't afford to holiday/ they are not alone.

Personally having travelled ALOT as a child I think holidays are wasted on kids - I can barely remember the blue mosque or the CN tower and all I remember of Mykonos is the heat! - and do want to revisit ( although not back up the CN tower all I remember is the fear!!) I am encouragin my children to travel in GAP year - a month in Mongolia is in the pipeline for DS as is teaching canoeing in Canada and time in a Dojo in Japan honing his Ist Kyu ( hopefully Ist dan by then)

patchwork_cat

MrsE wrote: »

I only have the one child, but it was no problem taking her abroad when she was little.

She certainly never missed toys or was bored, not with a pool & a beach:)

Not so bad when they are littel for the boredom, it is the lack of sleep that got to mine when they were little, It is now that they would be bored out of their brains with the sea and beach! We want such different things out of holidays now - both the kids quite fancy Ibiza!! No thanks, been there done that got the T shirt! or not!

It is as well we are all different, that is what makes the world go around and I am certainly not going to judge someone else's priorities - they are just not mine at the moment.

nicky_s_2

Thank you for all your replies!

thebaileys

I didn't go abroad for the first time till I was nineteen, and that was with a group of friends rather than with my family.

I can honestly say I never felt like I missed out, I knew my Mam and Dad didn't have the money, so we never asked for foreign holidays as we knew this wasn't possible for them.

Instead we went camping, to caravan parks and members of the family who lived away.

My sister also won a trip to Butlins on the local radio station.

I have fond memorys of my childhood holidays. Treehouses, getting stuck in a dingy and being rescued by my Dad, and also falling in a pig pen at a farm-not so fond.

My little boy is 4 now, and we went to Portugal when he was 5 months.
Which of course he can't remember. But it was an out of season DIY cheapy.

That was the last time we went abroad. We have had some fab camping and caravan holiday-£9.50 Sun Holidays, Cheapy out of season hols with Direct Carvan Holidays and Hoseasons.

We are also lucky enough to have a family member who owns a caravan on a farmers field.

No elec hook up, just the generator, no play park, clubhouse etc...
But we have had the best holidays ever, so chilled out and quiet.