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

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Franbern Sat 09-Jul-22 09:01:36

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.

Shel69 Sat 09-Jul-22 09:00:34

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

Galaxy Sat 09-Jul-22 08:59:25

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

HurdyGurdy Sat 09-Jul-22 08:55:09

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.

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).