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[quote=Anonymous]The best experiences are those when everyone contributes to the experience - by that I mean you participate in the cooking, cleaning or purchasing. Not everyone likes doing everything but everyone should be able to do SOMETHING. We have had the best experiences when we have a core group of people that volunteer for a meal - usually dinner. Breakfast and lunch are typically on your own time - but people will volunteer to bring/buy coffee, milk etc that is for everyone. There tends to be a group that is happy to clean up and then there are those that will happily pay for things. Then there is the final clean up an getting out of the house at the end. The worst experience is when the group is "on vacation" so they won't participate in anything and yet expect someone to clean, buy food, make a plan, etc. Unfortunately we have found its is our family members that are the worse group to travel with or share a house. They don't want to be regulated but they don't voluntary do anything. While I agree that it doesn't have to be scripted to every meal and every chore  I do think that having a general "plan" or expectations of everyone's expectations helps. Typically our family unit will express what our needs are in terms of accommodations (ie one or two bedrooms and number of bathrooms), we volunteer to do x while at the house (bring breakfast materials, make one dinner for the group and purchase groceries for lunch materials, empty dishwasher etc) and then we let everyone know what the house "rules" are check- out is 10 am, we are required to x and xy to check out - we will collect all of the bottles, garbage, recycling and get rid of it before we leave. Unfortunately our family vacations have turned into very miserable experiences because no one helps, no one wants to share the burdens - cleaning, paying, etc. So after multiple attempts we have decided that if we all go to the same location we will not share a larger house with family - we will get one that fits our immediate family in an effort to reduce the issues. [/quote]

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