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

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Cabbie21 Sat 09-Jul-22 08:52:47

Obviously sometimes there is a family emergency that necessitates a change of plan, but I am thinking more about leaving early by choice. This is unlikely if flights or ferry bookings are involved, but in other circumstances, might it happen? Have you ever done this?
We are due to leave the self- catering cottage tomorrow, but return home the following day, breaking the journey overnight. Now we are planning to do the journey in one day. The reason? The hot weather. We both struggle in the heat, and cannot bear the thought of sitting on the beach or trudging round a hot garden, then spending a hot night in a hotel room.( The one we have booked is an old building with no air con).

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dragonfly46 Sun 10-Jul-22 09:02:47

Yes we drove back to Holland from the south of France in one go. We arrived home after midnight to find our neighbours sitting in their garden so spent a couple of hours having drinks with them!

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Beechnut Sun 10-Jul-22 09:23:21

dragonfly46

Yes we drove back to Holland from the south of France in one go. We arrived home after midnight to find our neighbours sitting in their garden so spent a couple of hours having drinks with them!

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SueDonim Sun 10-Jul-22 13:29:22

I wish I hadn’t commented on this thread. I am now getting adverts for p o r t a b l e t o i l e t s. ?

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biglouis Mon 11-Jul-22 11:29:21

Ive never come home early from a holiday. However I have cut parts of it and gone off on my own when I was travelling with a group.

Once when I was travelling in a landrover holiday in Iran I wanted to stay in the beautiful city where we were (Isfahan) but the others voteds to go off camping. I stayed on 3 extra days in Isfahan and the arrangement was that I should re-join them at their hotel for the border crossing back to Turkey. However when I arrived at the hotel at the agreed time the receptionist told me they had left the night before! He arranged a taxi to take me to the border and I picked up a Turkish coach on the other side. The rest of the group seemed pretty surprised to see me at the rendezvous hotel in Turkey. I guess the driver had decided to "punish" me for daring to go off on my own.

All this was back in the 1970s before the Islamic Republic came in. I later visited Iran in the 1990s when you could only travel on a group visa and again ditched the group and only joined them for the flight back.

I hate travelling in groups!

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Grantanow Mon 11-Jul-22 11:42:43

Yes. If we are renting a cottage, etc., we usually leave on the penultimate day as we hate getting up early and last minute packing to be out by what is usually too early a deadline on the morning of the last day. It sometimes helps avoid traffic too.

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