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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are hosting and getting up later than most of your guests, that seems weird.[/quote]

Nope. My dad did night shift work until he transitioned to upper management at a factory, and his internal clock still gets him up at 5 a.m. I’m not getting up at 5 a.m. on holidays or vacations or when we have visitors. If you want to, knock yourself out. My dad is perfectly content to quietly hit “start” on the coffee maker I set up the night before, read, play on his iPad, and quietly say hello when people start to wander downstairs.[/quote]

Cool story.  I said “most of” your guests, not one outlier.[/quote]

DP.  We have a respectful family of people who have vastly different schedules.  We can share vacation homes because those of us who are late-night owls can be quiet when the early birds go to sleep.  And the early birds can be quiet and respectful in the mornings when they are up and we are not.  We usually figure out sleeping arrangements based on the proximity to the common spaces so that the lighter sleepers are further from the common space.

Everyone is respectful despite our different sleep schedules.  The key is that people on different schedules need to be respectful.  Many early birds are, but many are not.  This is the problem with OP's situation.  The early birds in her family cannot be respectful of people with different habits and schedules.  Therefore the only way to share vacations is to get separate accommodations.[/quote]

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