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[quote=Anonymous]This is such a weird discussion. It sounds like the part people have an issue with is that OP “invited” her parents to come and offered to pay for a lot of her parents’ trip (cruise, hotels) but not her parents’ airfare, which she left up to her parents to cover for themselves. Her parents either misunderstood or felt slighted by the fact that OP and spouse and kids have business class airfare and didn’t offer to pay for parents to sit in business class too.

I’m guessing parents either thought everyone would sit in coach together or else thought OP’s family would offer to give them the first class tix when they realized parents would be in coach.

OP made some mistakes. 1) inviting parents in the first place, knowing parents are not nice people, 2) not communicating clearly about what the “invitation” covered. OP should’ve explicitly said “we’d love you to join us! We will pay for cruise and hotels. you need to pay for airfare yourself. Just so you know, We have business class tix for our family which we were able to get through DH’s miles/points.” Then OP’s parents could’ve accepted that or not. [/quote]

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