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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you splitting the costs? If so, do your own thing. From my perspective, we were a busy family and my DH traveled a great deal. I wanted vacations to be only US. Vacationing with other people involves so much compromise. [/quote]

Wait- are other people getting free trips from inlaws?! If so, I'm jealous. That's my #1 deterrent to these trips. They're costly and I don't get a say. [/quote]

I’ve vacatiked with my inlaws and my parents. Our relationships are rather tense. They know the kids can’t go without a parent, and they know I don’t really want to vacation with them. If I had to pay full price I wouldn’t go. Both sets of grandparents are very well off, whereas DH and I are young with 4 kids and we do ok, but not enough for lavish vacations or vacations we don’t want to go to. So basically if they want the kids to vacation with them, they subsidize our costs. If money were no object, aka if I were dcum rich rather than normal US middle class, we’d probably pay for the vacations. We do contribute points for hotels if we have enough compatible points (DH travels a lot for work). [/quote]

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