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[quote=Anonymous]It depends.

I know grandparents who bring their children, their children's spouses, and their grandchildren on vacations to Costa Rica and places like that, each year, or at least every other year.  They are not rich, but they prioritize traveling, and do not want to go it alone, or see a foreign country by tour bus, so they bring their family along, and everyone enjoys themselves. Some go for for a week, some go for a summer.  The family truly enjoys each other, and the trip is a big treat, since no one needs anything material.

I also know grandparents who insist on renting a big house in the Outer Banks for a week each year (which is not cheap), and the children and grandchildren go for part of the week, out of obligation.  They really don't look forward to it, it is not where they would choose to go, and they have limited vacation time.  It is kind of a waste of money, and a waste of limited vacation time.  The grandparents aren't so good at taking everyone's time into account equally.  For example, they will ask some grandchildren about their school time off, and not others.  ie: If the grandparent has a personal vendetta or control issues, they have propensity to rear their ugly head during times like these.

I think that the PP who stated they would rather go someplace nice and pay our own way nailed it; assuming the family is warm and welcoming.  If the family is cold and clannish, you can keep your "vacation".

To the PP whose grandparents pay for Iceland - count me in!  I am hearing more and more of these great family vacation stories, and I think it sounds wonderful.  Especially if the grandparents are going on great vacations, anyway.  Why not include the whole family (they can pay their own way)?  That to me is more favorably memorable than cramming as many people into a house as possible, for a "tradition" that everyone dreads each year - especially if you have school obligations for your own children to tend to. [/quote]

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