Can't take/won't take a Holiday

[Angua]

Apart from 2 days at Alton Towers last year we haven't been away for over 7 years.

The first four years was because I was a full time carer for my Mum. Since then we have sold and moved house and simply cannot afford it. Hubby does take time off work and relaxes though.

As an at home person I would say I have not had a proper (totally relaxing and stress free) holiday since before having children, even the one 7 years ago was self catering so I was still cooking etc!

[orangebird]

I have approx four holidays a year. With friends and family living abroad, and six weeks holiday a year, there's always plenty of time and an inexpensive way to get away

[ian@huth]

Some of the cheaper holidays have vanished from the scene this year. Being able to get away whenever we want and at very short notice has meant we have been able to take advantage of some very cheap holiday deals. The cheapest was 7 days self catering in Fuerteventura in a small villa for £42 for the two of us. This included flights, in flight meals,taxes, transfers and accomodation. There were no booking fees or credit card charges. That was booked through Freeserve auctions when the big tour operators were first trying out internet auctions as a way of selling left over flights and accomodation.

We had many very cheap holidays through internet auctions but found that they were getting dearer and dearer as time went by. The biggest operator using this means of selling holidays, Airtours, closed down their auction site some months ago. Just before they closed the site down they were adding everything under the sun as extras to the winning auction price. Transfers, security tax, fuel surcharge, in flight meals, booking fees, ticket on departure fees and credit card charges all became extras.