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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  let me give you some perspective, OP.  MIL rents a different beach house every year, one that is always too small for everyone she invites.  As if she is hoping half of us will decline?  Anyway, every year it is more and more people, with a seemingly smaller house.  At this point it is about 20 people.

Every year, Mil also makes assumptions about arrangements, and SILs "get there first" (really, this happens) and claim the best rooms.  Which is fine, until about the 20th year of this.

Like your family (and as it happens, mine too), the grandkids have quite and age gap between them.  MIL *loves* to point this out; almost as an excuse not to interact with the youngest grandchildren, oddly.  I come form a large, warm family, so every year, I am more perplexed by MIL's idea of a vacation.  It has become clear that the whole charade is for bragging rights.

All this to ask you if your point in going would be to see your family, or your parents.  If it is your family, I would go and set up my own quarters, possibly rent nearby, as insulting as it seems.  If it seems too insulting to you, then don't go. Instead, invite your parents to visit you, and have your children enjoy your parents 1:1.  That is what I would do.

I think your sisters are being hurtful and selfish, FWIW. 
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