Do you ever go home from holiday a day or two early?

Yes. Three or four years ago, I booked a week's caravan holiday in Blackpool for me, my daughter and granddaughter.

I was non stop rain for two days, whilst back home, it was glorious sunshine, with temperatures in the high 70s.

We lasted two days and gave up and returned home.

Once pulled into a hotel in Leeds, the car park and exterior alone made us turn around and ring to cancel.

Yes, we usually leave the evening before if staying in self catering,hate having to get up look to see what we haven't packed and leave by 10 or 11 am, unless we are staying in a hotel we pack in the afternoon ,put it in the car, then it's less stressful, no time limit to check to see if we have missed anything

When I was about 16 years old I was invited on holiday with my cousin of similar age. She had always come on holiday with me and her parents wanted to return it. However, when I arrived they were in a small caravan with themselves, we two teenage girls and their 4 year old young daughter.

Nothing social nearby, at leas a couple of miles walk across mud to get to the nearest proper seaside town for dances, cinema. O

On my second day there I did that mud walk to get to a telephone box to phone my parents begging them to send a message to say I had to return home as one of them was not well. They refused. I stuck it another couple of days, then just lied to my Aunt and Uncle saying I had spoken to my parents on the 'phone and knew my Mum was ill (she often was), and I really needed to go home. And I did.

Ask yourselves; can you cope with the longer journey in the hot weather, would it be safe for the driver to do the longer distance?

Why not leave your options open and see how you feel as you approach the pre-planned stop?

We have quite often done the journey home in one day rather than do planned stop.

We like home.

Presumably your car has air con?

Good point, and high on my considerations, but my husband jumped at the suggestion. He is more than happy to drive and the car has good air con.
We need to make a decision in order to cancel the hotel.

We have done it several times, once we went away for a week over Christmas to a lovely hotel, but made the very long drive home on Christmas Eve because I didn’t feel right not being home at Christmas.
We returned home from a break in Wales early because of non stop rain, and sometimes we just knock a day off because we want to.

I don’t think I’ve ever come home early, but I’ve moved from a place or locale to another earlier than anticipated for various reasons, including finding out about something interesting I want to see elsewhere, poor accommodation, or particularly bad weather.

Cabbie21

Good point, and high on my considerations, but my husband jumped at the suggestion. He is more than happy to drive and the car has good air con.
We need to make a decision in order to cancel the hotel.

I rather think that you have answered your own question. Have a safe journey home.

Went to Scotland (Dingwall area) one year with friends - the little ones were 3ish. We had all four seasons in the week but after all four in one day, we packed up and came home.

We did many years ago and full of regret given we were staying at the most beautiful town on the Tuscan coast, I think we left a week early. I had a lung infection and could barely eat anything and given we were in Italy that was a tragedy I lost nearly a stone in weight, so always a silver lining! except I was pretty thin in those days anyway. It would almost be worth it now!

We had driven down, it took two overnight stops, we had one toddler and a five year old who interminably shouted out "are we nearly there?" and that was all before we even got to Dover. We dropped one of the overnight stops on the way back my husband got us all the way from Lyon to home in one go, he often looks back on that with a "couldn't even contemplate doing that journey now!"

Georgesgran I remember snow on Oct 1st in Dingwall!

I did cut a cycling holiday short one time. DS and I were in Somerset, on our way from Land's End to Scotland, when the heavens opened. It was the year of the Boscombe floods. We cheated completely and got the train from Bristol to York!

In the 1950s holiday camps became very popular, my parents booked for a fortnight. I can’t remember exactly how long we stayed, possibly 3 days. Not sure what my parents were expecting, but they were prepared to sacrifice the cost of the remainder of the holiday to get home as quickly as possible. I often wondered why they booked it in the first place it was so unlike their usual choice of comfortable hotels with good food in picturesque places.

We have come home early quite a few times. One for the weather when we were on Skye, a good move there was a landslide on the road the day we should have travelled.
Last year in Wales we had to be out by 8.30 because of cleaning for Covid, we decided on Friday to pack up and go that day.
Another time we cut the overnight stay was when DH decided he would rather keep going and get home, which he was safe to do.
We also left Wales one friday evening near the end of the holidays, there was a heat wave and our air con had broken, we drove home with the top down one of the best journeys of my life.
Make the end fit what you want and not a chore it is not an endurance test.

I have actually this morning suggested we think about leaving later today. I had planned to avoid travelling on a Saturday, but it is not yet high season, and we would not leave till after lunch today. Our accommodation is lovely, but we have no idea how to spend the day.
DH is always glad to get home.

I once lied to friends we were staying with in Spain.
We always knew that he was let’s say a difficult man. But this time the difficulties had ramped up big time.
I told them I had got the date of the return flight wrong so we had to leave 2 days earlier than we had said.

Every year we take our
Grandchildren in a Monday to Monday break in a caravan, the children love it and have a great time.

But we always return home the day before (quite often in the evening).
Reasons

1, It's the during half term Spring Bank Holiday, so back to school on the Monday (although this year they had Monday inset day)

2, We can leave when we are ready, no mad dash to get up and gone by the alloted 10am.
Leaving a clean caravan with bed linen removed and bagged.

3 Traffic much quieter Sunday evening.
No rush hour and heavy lorries to deal with.

No. I don't think I have ever done this.
When younger we would have sat out any weather as always had plenty to do. Now we only go to places we really want to be. No reason to cut it short. Holidays are always too short as far as I'm concerned!

Come to think of it, and seeing Wales up thread, I remember a holiday with parents in Wales when we had to come home early as my father said "his big end had gone!" which sounded painful I was later to learn that pain only related to his pocket, mechanical and car related!

I have actually done it the other way.
My flight came in at

10 pm , I was only a 30 minute drive from home but it was december , couldn't face the dark home so booked a room in a hotel. Besr thing I ever did it was lovely

Yes, earlier this year from a few days in Shepton Mallet. Our hotel was odd and there was nothing special we wanted to do.

I did this last year. I was staying in a caravan in Cornwall and my back found the furniture, including the bed, very uncomfortable. Which was a pity because everything was lovely otherwise, the weather, the location. So I packed up and went home two days early. It went against the grain because I love holidays, but could not stand the pain any longer.