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[quote=Anonymous]When someone says they want to take us on a trip, what does that mean to you? DH and I have a preschooler, toddler and a baby and plan out our trips in detail and look forward to them. We try to do them cheaply, but everything is planned and we go great places. We can't afford more vacations right now than what we take (which is one big trip and a couple of small side trips here in the US). DH gets free plane tickets from work so most of our trips are international, but relatively inexpensive.

DH's family always want to take us on a trip. They don't want to come on our trips, however, because we've invited them. They're trips are planned horribly bad locations with no activities, the hotels are extremely expensive ($370 for a 3 star last time!) and they like bland restaurants. They constantly say they took us on such and such trip- except we paid! That $370 a night hotel trip for a week really blew our budget and resulted in credit card debt. We had thought they were paying for us and then at the end when we got the bill we were shocked at how unbelievably expensive the hotel was. We felt scammed because if they had gone online they could have paid 1/4 that. (They had checked us in, so we didn't know). This wasn't the first time that we thought they were paying and they weren't, but this was the worst we got burned.

They're begging for Disney but no way can we afford Disney right now (3 in daycare). They keep telling everyone about how they're going to take us to Disney. Thing is, if they wanted to pay, we'd go. But if we're paying, we don't want to go with them. They're not helpful with kids and everything would take forever. We'd also need a budget hotel and not the Polynesian for instance. If we're going someplace special like Disney I'd want it to be by ourselves so I could enjoy myself too versus being their babysitter while everyone else has fun. I feel like if they visited us occasionally here in DC or if they started helping more with the kids I could do more trips with them. Besides, if we're going to Disney with anyone, I feel like it should be with my parents since I grew up in Orlando and my dad worked at Disney. It's WAY more special to my parents.

DH isn't really on my side. He'd rather cut back retirement or our own vacations to appease his parents. Is there anything I can say to his parents since DH won't? [/quote]

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