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[quote=Anonymous]We're going to a big city about 3 hours from my parents house. We're flying in and staying downtown so we don't have to rent a car/bring car seats. We invited my parents to visit us while we're there. Both of my parents just can't stop complaining about the hotel (a Hilton Garden Inn that's nice). They want to stay further out so they can park, bring their dog and get a much nicer hotel. They want Ritz level of hotels. They started saying how we could get a cheaper Hilton Garden Inn further out even.

I felt like by inviting my parents I was extending them an olive branch. Last time we traveled with them they forced us to stay in a hotel that was 3x what we could afford on a road trip in my 7 passenger car. We make half what they make (we make 150k) and have two toddlers so finances are tight but we like to travel.

After my mom's rant about our Hilton Garden Inn, I calmly told them they were disinvited and I was done traveling with them. I can't stand how they call us cheap so often. Constant fights over where to eat, where to stay on vacation. Even when they stay at a swanky hotel down the street, it's still somewhat shitty because they constantly refer to us slumming it down the street. They're crazy right? I'm not even cheap, I just don't want to spend $300 a night on a hotel. We can't afford the same things that they can and I'm sick of them talking about it. [/quote]

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