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[quote=Anonymous]I generally like my in-laws, and want to stay in good graces/be part of the family.  Here's the issue.  They regularly ask us to go on vacation with them, including DH's 2 siblings, their spouses, and SIL's 3 kids (BIL doesn't have any yet).  They generally foot the bill.  They are generous and easy-going, so this isn't one of those "vacation with us and you will eat boxed mac and cheese every night and cant order a soda with dinner" things, but...

this time, they want everyone to go to the Caribbean.  They have rented 2 2BR condos on the beach.   That means DH and I will be in one room with both our kids.  SIL and her DH would also in theory share a room with their 3 kids, but more likely SIL will stick her 2 older kids with MIL and FIL and just keep the baby with her.  Even if we wanted to do this, our older one wouldn't go for it because he doesn't know grandparents as well as his cousins do (they live in the same town and regularly spend overnights with them).

The bottom line is, this doesn't sound like fun to me.  I prefer to have a separate room for my kids on vacation - we do not sleep well all together - and frankly, we can afford to vacation the way we want to.  I dont know if SIL and her DH actually mind all this family togetherness, but they dont have a lot of money (she's a doctor so certainly could but has chosen to work part time), so they rely on her parents to sponsor their vacations.

I would like to suggest that if they can reserve a 3rd condo we will take it and pay for it (which would have the additional benefit of freeing up one of their bedrooms for SIL to put her kids in, on the family dime).  Otherwise I really am not interested in using my limited vacation time to have a week with no sleep in, frankly, a destination I dont love (have been there before).  I think that's fair, but I am cognizant that no one hears SIL complaining about the room-sharing, and I dont want to come off as a brat.

What do you think?[/quote]

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