Holidays with family

We went as a whole family - so four households - and shared a big lodge.
My mum doesn't sleep well so stayed in a nearby hotel as she didn't want to disturb anyone else when she pottered around in the night. She joined us during the day and for meals.
We took turns to shop/cook etc and all pitched in with the cleaning. Childcare was arranged so everyone had one night 'off'.
As long as it's clear that everyone chips in it's great, and sharing the chores means everyone has some down time too.

It worked much better for me than a self-catering holiday with just my own family as I would then be doing the jobs I do at home just in a different place!

Love love love it

Yes we've done several holidays with various family members, including a four-generation one.
We've also holidayed with friends.

So far we've had self-catering apartments or been on cruises, this summer we're going to an all-inclusive hotel with our daughter, partner and two grandchildren.

We certainly don't always do everything together during the day, it depends what different people fancy doing, but we do usually eat together in the evening.

In your position Luckygirl3 I'd advise you to have your own bedroom and bathroom as a minimum for some personal space to do things in peace and at your own pace.

My DC are 24 and 26 and come on holiday with us occaisonally.
In UK usually book a large apartment and invite them for all or part of the time plus partners.
DS2 came with us to Lanzarote in April. He's very good company and easy going so it worked well.

When my children were little we paid for my parents to come with us. We didn't see much of them TBH but they helped a bit with the children.

Did it about four years ago, mobile home in France, son, daughter and 2 grandchildren, it worked fine and we enjoyed it. Also had them all to stay twice when we lived there, lovely memories, no problem doing it again.

Correct me if I’m wrong but is the OP expecting negative answers on the subject?

We’ve been away with them on several occasions. Our strategy is to discuss what we would all like to do, places to go and ones you don’t. Also time to yourself/yourselves is another must. If you are up to it offer to childmind ( if at that age) on a couple of evenings to give the parents a break and also plan evenings out for yourself. You don’t have to be tied at the hip. What you do need is tolerance!

We went away with our son, daughter-in-law and 2 small grandchildren (June 2022 to Portugal). We had a lovely time - we got to see lots of the grandchildren and our son and daughter-in-law got lots of help to look after them from us, giving them some much appreciated time to relax - win, win situation!

Hated it, would never do it again.