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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]just curious.

DH, I and our 4 young kids go visit my parents every year around Christmas. The airfare costs around $1500.  The rest of the siblings live close and drive there. 
My parents only come visit us every 5 years or so, despite us giving an open invitation to the whole family.  We wish the 2 of them would visit more, rather than us schlepping our family of 6 on a plane.
I also wish they would offer to pay for all/part of our airfare sometimes. (We both work, and my Dad still works, so we all have some disposable income)

So, when you visit your parents for the holidays or whenever, who pays for tickets?  or do you alternate who visits whom?
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Is this a serious question??  Of course you pay to visit your parents.  They pay for everything else in your life previously.  You are an grown adult.  To me, this question is as dumb as "should I charge my daughter for her stay at my home when she brings her family to visit?"

For us, not only would I pay to visit my parents, I would pay for my parents' airfare to visit me!  Also, when we go out to eat, I also take the dinner bill.  My parents have sacrificed so much of their comfort to see me through adulthood that this is the least I could do. [/quote]

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