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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you lament that your parents don't want to vacation with you the way you want to vacation.  However, you seem blind to the fact that you don't want to go vacation with them the way they want to vacation either?  The solution here, is to compromise.  I have to admit that like your parents, your vacation sounds mind-numbing to me and I wouldn't want to do it.  I like the beach for a day, maybe two.  5 days at the beach sounds like torture to me.  Also, my

Some compromises?  Take a cruise on Disney or Royal Caribbean, both of which are very kid-friendly.  We did that with my extended family including my parents; we've done it 3 times over the last 7 years.  Our kids spent some time in the kids programs and we chose family friendly excursions.  The grandparents went on two excursions with us, and then they did other things that appealed to them more on other days.  We always ate dinner together.  Royal Caribbean was very nice we had dinner at 6pm; at 6:40pm, the counselors from the kids' program came down to the lobby outside the dining room and we could walk out and sign the kids into the kids room.  They would take the kids up to play and we had until 10pm to pick them up.  The kids would come in, spend the time before their food came running around, saying hi to the grandparents, cuddling, drawing, etc, then eat and when they were done with the long dinner, they got to go up and play in the playroom.  And we could finish dinner with my parents.  We even went to one show after dinner and got a nice walk in the moonlight up on the top deck one evening before picking up the kids and taking them back to go to bed.

Alternatively, go to a resort.  There are nice ones in the Caribbean.  If you want more cost effective, there are ones along the east coast where your parents can get 5-star accomodations and you can get family-friendly amenities.  As someone else pointed out, Orlando is great for all of the above.   You can go to Disney one or two days and do things interactively with your parents the other days.  At Disney, they can stay in the Grand Cypress Hotel and you can stay at the Residence Inn in a 2 bedroom suite or similar.

There are plenty of cities with 5-star hotels near family-friendly accomodations where you can be within walking distance of each other's hotels.  You can eat meals together and do some activities together and then split up for other days when you go off and do kid friendly activities and they do more mature recreation.

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