I tried the condo rental instead of hotel.. it was not feeling like a vacation doing dishes, cooking, laundry

[Anonymous]

We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

Everyone who loves condos seems to mention having “lots of drinks” available. What exactly are people drinking? All I drink is water, tea, and wine. No wonder everyone is so fat if they’re drinking calorific beverages all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

Everyone who loves condos seems to mention having “lots of drinks” available. What exactly are people drinking? All I drink is water, tea, and wine. No wonder everyone is so fat if they’re drinking calorific beverages all the time.

It’s a vacation. Some people prefer beer over wine. Get on Ozempic and stop worrying about calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

Everyone who loves condos seems to mention having “lots of drinks” available. What exactly are people drinking? All I drink is water, tea, and wine. No wonder everyone is so fat if they’re drinking calorific beverages all the time.

You sound like a boring ahole

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I'm over this, back to hotels all the way.

Same.

It was novel at first. So much space! We will save money on food! We can drink out back around the fire pit while the kids splash in the pool!

But then the demands of the hosts got to be ridiculous, and the list of chores too ridiculous, and hotels started looking more relaxing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I'm over this, back to hotels all the way.

Same.

It was novel at first. So much space! We will save money on food! We can drink out back around the fire pit while the kids splash in the pool!

But then the demands of the hosts got to be ridiculous, and the list of chores too ridiculous, and hotels started looking more relaxing.

I agree. I don’t want to strip the beds. I don’t want to wash the towels. I don’t want to empty the trash cans. The last place we stayed had a departure checklist that included the most mundane crap like turning down the thermostat, raising the fridge temp, and switching the water heater to vacation! It’s like, come do it when we leave!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

Everyone who loves condos seems to mention having “lots of drinks” available. What exactly are people drinking? All I drink is water, tea, and wine. No wonder everyone is so fat if they’re drinking calorific beverages all the time.

You sound like a boring ahole

You sound fat, and so do your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We do it for the space. It’s nice to have a common area to spend time but then everyone gets their own bedroom. Everyone sleeps better when they have their own room, like at home. We don’t cook dinners and only keep snacks and simple breakfast foods in the condo. Having lots of drinks available is great, too. The fridge is really the only thing in the kitchen that gets used.

Everyone who loves condos seems to mention having “lots of drinks” available. What exactly are people drinking? All I drink is water, tea, and wine. No wonder everyone is so fat if they’re drinking calorific beverages all the time.

It’s a vacation. Some people prefer beer over wine. Get on Ozempic and stop worrying about calories.

OMG, everyone isn't as dull and weird as you. Water, tea and wine? Depressing.
My teenagers go through a gallon of milk a day. My daughter likes seltzer. I like spindrifts. My DH likes Gatorade Zeros, and beer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast: simple no-cook stuff like cereal, fruit, yogurt, bagels, send DH out for donuts...

Lunch: again simple and no-cook: sandwiches, fruit, chips. Use paper plates.

Go out for dinners.

This is what we do. Breakfast is toast with peanut butter, or oatmeal, or yogurt - we bring from home or buy locally, and all super fast. Lunch is sandwiches or something very fast like eggs. We go out for dinner if in a city. If we're staying in a cabin or something, we cook it, obviously, although usually there's a pizza night in there somewhere.

I don't tend to enjoy breakfast or lunch out - I'd rather get through those quickly and on to the day's activity. The exception is if I'm in a big cosmopolitan city with lots of great little cafes or breakfast places. Then I'm happy to eat out. Like in Paris or Tokyo - for sure I am eating the local food for all meals! At the beach or visiting relatives in random suburbs, nope, I will cook my own.

[Anonymous]

Again. It’s not the food, it’s the chores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again. It’s not the food, it’s the chores.

Unless you’re scrubbing toilets and vacuuming it’s not that bad. It’s about an hour the day you check out. Strip the beds, make sure dishwasher is up, take out the trash, turn thermostat up or down. At least that’s our experience vacationing with 10 people (2 families with kids plus grandparents) and has been manageable and worth it to all stay together. I only pick places that claim to have a cleaner turn the place over between clients, however!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again. It’s not the food, it’s the chores.

Unless you’re scrubbing toilets and vacuuming it’s not that bad. It’s about an hour the day you check out. Strip the beds, make sure dishwasher is up, take out the trash, turn thermostat up or down. At least that’s our experience vacationing with 10 people (2 families with kids plus grandparents) and has been manageable and worth it to all stay together. I only pick places that claim to have a cleaner turn the place over between clients, however!

10 people and multiple adults is far different than a family of 4 with 2 adults and 1 who does chores at home and on vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again. It’s not the food, it’s the chores.

Unless you’re scrubbing toilets and vacuuming it’s not that bad. It’s about an hour the day you check out. Strip the beds, make sure dishwasher is up, take out the trash, turn thermostat up or down. At least that’s our experience vacationing with 10 people (2 families with kids plus grandparents) and has been manageable and worth it to all stay together. I only pick places that claim to have a cleaner turn the place over between clients, however!

You don’t get it. I don’t want to do this crap on vacation.

[Anonymous]

Curious why nobody has mentioned renting villas in resorts.

We also have rented privately owned condos/houses within resorts that have daily cleaning. No different really than a hotel room.

You can keep some of your own snacks and drinks or just walk out your door and get food and drinks at the resort.

No chore lists or what not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious why nobody has mentioned renting villas in resorts.

We also have rented privately owned condos/houses within resorts that have daily cleaning. No different really than a hotel room.

You can keep some of your own snacks and drinks or just walk out your door and get food and drinks at the resort.

No chore lists or what not.

I don’t like resorts.