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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

I get what that PP was saying, even though I love traveling, look forward to it, and don't find the planning or logistics especially tiring. But traveling with multiple kids, who may have multiple needs, not used to interacting with each other all that much day-to-day (different grades, groups of friends, etc) can get exhausting, even if everything goes smoothly in terms of flights, etc.

Once ours are older and (hopefully!) out of the house, 5 trips/year sounds great. But doing that many trips while working full-time is reasonably too much, I think.

PP here, we both work full time. The kids not getting along is a kid problem not a travel problem. Kids fighting or complaining while on a vacation/trip would not be acceptable, lay down the law. Our son is great to travel with and we frequently bring a friend of his with us. He understand that it is a privilege and that not a lot of people are as fortunate.

NP. Could you drip anymore condescension? (Signed another mom of an only who understands that traveling with multiple siblings is more complicated). Stretch your imagination a little. It’s seems rather limited.

What is more complicated about it?

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

I get what that PP was saying, even though I love traveling, look forward to it, and don't find the planning or logistics especially tiring. But traveling with multiple kids, who may have multiple needs, not used to interacting with each other all that much day-to-day (different grades, groups of friends, etc) can get exhausting, even if everything goes smoothly in terms of flights, etc.

Once ours are older and (hopefully!) out of the house, 5 trips/year sounds great. But doing that many trips while working full-time is reasonably too much, I think.

PP here, we both work full time. The kids not getting along is a kid problem not a travel problem. Kids fighting or complaining while on a vacation/trip would not be acceptable, lay down the law. Our son is great to travel with and we frequently bring a friend of his with us. He understand that it is a privilege and that not a lot of people are as fortunate.

NP. Could you drip anymore condescension? (Signed another mom of an only who understands that traveling with multiple siblings is more complicated). Stretch your imagination a little. It’s seems rather limited.

Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so weird me to that people on DCUM have been on multiple international vacations. I never have (business travel, yes). But popping over to Europe for a long weekend? Cannot relate.

You can get flights to places like London and Iceland as low as $300s range at times $225 ish for KEF. Stay at a Premier Inn or Budget hotel and you are spending less than you’d estimate.

In economy, though.

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

I get what that PP was saying, even though I love traveling, look forward to it, and don't find the planning or logistics especially tiring. But traveling with multiple kids, who may have multiple needs, not used to interacting with each other all that much day-to-day (different grades, groups of friends, etc) can get exhausting, even if everything goes smoothly in terms of flights, etc.

Once ours are older and (hopefully!) out of the house, 5 trips/year sounds great. But doing that many trips while working full-time is reasonably too much, I think.

PP here, we both work full time. The kids not getting along is a kid problem not a travel problem. Kids fighting or complaining while on a vacation/trip would not be acceptable, lay down the law. Our son is great to travel with and we frequently bring a friend of his with us. He understand that it is a privilege and that not a lot of people are as fortunate.

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

I get what that PP was saying, even though I love traveling, look forward to it, and don't find the planning or logistics especially tiring. But traveling with multiple kids, who may have multiple needs, not used to interacting with each other all that much day-to-day (different grades, groups of friends, etc) can get exhausting, even if everything goes smoothly in terms of flights, etc.

Once ours are older and (hopefully!) out of the house, 5 trips/year sounds great. But doing that many trips while working full-time is reasonably too much, I think.

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it. People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March, it took him about an hour. Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

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Anonymous wrote:So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year. It is just too expensive for us. We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough. And travel prices are so expensive now. I don't know how people do it. My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.

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Anonymous wrote:We typically take 3 international trips a year but here's the deal:

- Our home is paid off, so no mortgage.
- Our cars are paid off
- We have no children
- We both work decent paying jobs
- We now live in a lower COL area than DC (Chicagoland, so not a gigantic difference but it is lower than NOVA)

Why are you frequenting a parenting forum

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Anonymous wrote:It's so weird me to that people on DCUM have been on multiple international vacations. I never have (business travel, yes). But popping over to Europe for a long weekend? Cannot relate.

You can get flights to places like London and Iceland as low as $300s range at times $225 ish for KEF. Stay at a Premier Inn or Budget hotel and you are spending less than you’d estimate.

In economy, though.

Economy is not the end of the world. We've even flown to Asia in economy, real no big deal. I would rather travel in economy than not travel at all.

Op curious what your income is and how you spend your money. While I get that in some income bracket it is hard to afford travel I think that there are other times when you can prioritize travel. For use we don't drive luxury cars, haven't done house renovations that I would love (kitchen, bath), bought a house below what we "could" afford and so on so as to prioritize travel. When we do travel we opt for less expensive accommodations over luxury resorts.

I am jealous of people who have the time to travel. I only get 3 weeks of vacation a year.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so weird me to that people on DCUM have been on multiple international vacations. I never have (business travel, yes). But popping over to Europe for a long weekend? Cannot relate.

You can get flights to places like London and Iceland as low as $300s range at times $225 ish for KEF. Stay at a Premier Inn or Budget hotel and you are spending less than you’d estimate.

In economy, though.

Economy is not the end of the world. We've even flown to Asia in economy, real no big deal. I would rather travel in economy than not travel at all.

Op curious what your income is and how you spend your money. While I get that in some income bracket it is hard to afford travel I think that there are other times when you can prioritize travel. For use we don't drive luxury cars, haven't done house renovations that I would love (kitchen, bath), bought a house below what we "could" afford and so on so as to prioritize travel. When we do travel we opt for less expensive accommodations over luxury resorts.

I am jealous of people who have the time to travel. I only get 3 weeks of vacation a year.