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[quote=Anonymous]My kids are similarities obsessed with “vacation” - even though most of our trips that require an airplane have been to visit family.  We can afford more vacation - both financially and time off work - but my kids are picky eaters, get car sick, and I couldn’t see the point of going somewhere just to spend hours in a hotel with napping or sleeping children.

Now that they are both school age, we have started doing mini trips with 1-2 nights away on long weekends a few times a year.  We’ve taken them to Philly and Baltimore, Shenandoah hiking, Delaware beaches, etc. They even enjoy “day trips” to DC or Mt Vernon to do tourist things even though we live 15 min from the mall.

Sure there are plenty of families who go on many, long, or exotic trips. If the parents have a passion for travel and enjoy it, I see that as sharing their hobby with their kids. However, if you as a parent don’t enjoy traveling with kids, I don’t think kids are deprived by having 1 vacation week a year.

At age 4, I agree with you that many of the high quality school break camps available in the DMV area are far more fun and enriching than me dragging my kids all over a city we had to fly to. At camp, my kids have the focused attention and energy of enthusiastic young counselors who have arranged full days of age appropriate activities. On vacation there is fun, but there is also driving, time spent waiting for food at restaurants, sleeping in a strange bed, time spent waiting in line or for tours to start. Now that my kids are a bit older, vacation is starting to be more fun and by 3rd or 4th grade I think camp and vacation begins to be equal. Being able to read fluently enough to enjoy museums and historical displays, being old enough to walk all day, being able to stay up a bit later for special things like star gazing in a national park or fireworks - all those things make it easier to do activities on vacation. When my kids were 3-5, vacation felt like flying across the country to mostly eat chicken nuggets and play on playgrounds with 1-2 short activities mixed in each day. 
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