Do your college aged kids travel with you?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on kid and if they have gf/bf and how much money they have.

When I was in college I started traveling with my SO and family, so yeah that's a possibility.

[Anonymous]

DD and I traveled all over Europe during her college years in the UK. She lives and works in NYC now, and we are planning a trip together this spring. No need to panic

[Anonymous]

We did travel together. I was aware that these might be our last chances (at least without a significant other).

The scheduling is hard though, Obviously you have to work around school, but also now jobs/internships.

For me, that meant more money , because I could not plan until they knew their plans. But we have gotten a few more great trips under our belt (and since college, we both taken trips without each other too).

[Anonymous]

Scheduling is hard. But my kid wants to go with us so we prioritize making it work.

[Anonymous]

I have kids in college and their freshman year (twins) we went to Paris over Christmas break and then OBX in the summer. Sophomore year we went to visit relatives in AZ over winter break (but only for 2-3 days, the rest was visiting grand canyon, Sedona etc) and OBX in summer. Junior year we just visited relatives within driving distance (money seems to running thin!), and will do OBX again this summer.

The one thing I do not do is book anything over spring break, because they are planning go places with their friends.

We are hoping to do a big trip to Spain perhaps right after they graduate next year - we'll see.

I hope that they continue to want to go places with us and will work with them on scheduling them as long as they want to. A good friend has an older kid two years out of college and they still vacation with the family when they can get the time off work.

[Anonymous]

I think if they’re available and want to - they travel with you. If they’re not available or have an internship or whatever they don’t. I think you are flexible about it when they are in college.

[Anonymous]

It depends on what other obligations kids have, internships, research, jobs, relationships, non academic involvements etc. If things work out then yes but they don't go on every family trip every year. Get used to it.

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Anonymous wrote:My college kids always go with me on trips and my oldest still goes who lives in Boston and is 24. Who turn down a free trip?

This. My kids got used to the free trips when they were in high school and college. Now whenever I travel, say with a friend, they make lots of jokes and drop lots of hints about going with me.

[Anonymous]

My 20 and 25 y.o. DSs still travel with us most of the time. As a PP said, they don't turn down free trips unless they have to. We spend a week at a family beach house every summer and so far they've continued to join us each year. They also traveled to Vancouver with us last summer and are planning to come with us to France this coming summer. It helps (a lot) that we pay for DS1's girlfriend to come too.

[Anonymous]

I am in my 50's, and we still like to travel with my parents. I don't know if this is common, but we really enjoy it - my parents, my DH and I, and my "kids."

So don't worry that, at age 18, they suddenly do not travel with you!

[Anonymous]

Our kids are college aged and go with us over winter break. We made it clear they are invited but it is not required.

Summers are too busy for them.

Other trips we go on our own, but let them know of our plans in case either can join.
It’s happened a couple of times but not much.

If/when they get BF/GF and they are LT ones they will be invited as well.

[Anonymous]

The only convenient time when all our kids have time off is during winter break, but we don't love traveling then so have only done it once.

Summer internships have been out of state, so they're just not home much. It gets harder to find a mutually good time for all, but if you prioritize it and plan, it's doable.

[Anonymous]

Only if they want to.

[Anonymous]

My sister’s kids are in their late 20s, single living in different parts of the country, and still all travel together. They even go to festivals together! It does help that my sister pays for pretty nice lodging and often foots the bill for their airfare, but they genuinely like hanging out together as a family.

[Anonymous]

It really depends on their schedules and what they’ve got going on. Our kids work during breaks to have spending money at school. They come home on random weekends to work a shift or two each month to remain on the schedule. They have stuff they’re involved in at school. We love to take family vacations but they are becoming few and far between.