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[quote=Anonymous]We stopped when we went to college.  Many of my 30 something friends still do.  My family has now started discussing doing it again, but.. here is my observation...

For my friends who still do, the parents still paid for the trips through college and the early work years.  They would rent out amazing beach houses for the week, go to Europe for a week, etc.  These were not small trips and in no way could the 22 year old friend afford the vacation.  She might pay for her meals or spending, but not the bulk.  The friends did not really start paying fully until they were truly capable. But since family vacations have always been the norm, and since there is sort of an expectation that it will continue, they still try to go on these vacations.  Sometimes they cant, and that is fine, but for the most part they still do.  And I think the parents still pay for more than an equal share- but that is pure speculation.

For me, I spent many years only being able to afford a weekend here or there to not so fancy places.  I did not go to Europe and did not spend a full week at a fancy beach house. That is completely fine, I enjoyed the experiences I did get to have immensely, and learned a lot from the idea that fancy vacations took a lot of hard work to really enjoy.  I think I learned valuable lessons my friends did not.  And I am now at a place where I can afford vacations on my own, but that independence and the years of only being able to afford what I could has made me less flexible with my vacations.  I have spent the last 15 years working hard to be able to go wherever I want to on vacation, and I don't particularly want to use that time and money to go on a trip planned by my parents who have different ideas of what is fun.  If I can only spend XYZ this year on vacation, I don't particularly want to join my in-laws for a lake house vacation when I could spend it in the Bahamas.

Does that make sense. I guess, it seems like those that still had their late teens and 20s paid for are more invested in the idea of a family vacay and are thus more amenable to the idea in their 30s.  For those that did not have this, its sort of hard to start back up once it has stopped.  [/quote]

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