Family Vacations- How old is too old?

[realmenhatelife]

It's vacation time and I always feel really weird that my peers, people in their 20's, are still getting taken on vacation by their parents. Granted, my family never went on vacations and that's probably why I think this. But I feel like once you move out of the house, you are beyond going on a trip with your parents. What say you dot net?

[RAAMONE]

i'm 26 and my family has been going to stone harbor, NJ for like the past 35 years

once i went to college i started to just go up for the weekend instead of the whole week

now i just stay home and watch the house and the pets for them...it just started to get boring as i got older

[King Hippos Bandaid]

18-20

They cant drink out at bars

also they think their shit donit stink and they are too cool for their parents

The rest will find booze and ladies ( or men) if they try hard enough

plus going away is going away


esp on a cruise, you will only see your family probably at the Island and at Dinner, the rest of the day and night , u have to meet drunk and fun other people

[angrymissy]

Please lord help me

Jeff's parents booked a "family" vacation without even telling us until after the fact.

Wanna guess where?

Those fucking dirty 70's couple resorts in the Pocono's with the champagne glass bathtub. Seriously. We're trying to get them to change it to a Canada cruise. I'm not going to a couples resort with my inlaws. Not happenin.

[marky2bucks]

I still go at 28. It's not my favorite couple of days, but it's for the family. I don't spend much time with them the rest of the year, so it's a good time to get together. We usually go over Xmas, so it's two birds with one stone.

It would be different if I was married and had kids, that would be weird.

[A.J.]

Please lord help me

Jeff's parents booked a "family" vacation without even telling us until after the fact.

Wanna guess where?

Those fucking dirty 70's couple resorts in the Pocono's with the champagne glass bathtub. Seriously. We're trying to get them to change it to a Canada cruise. I'm not going to a couples resort with my inlaws. Not happenin.

I think you should bring along the glass guitar lamp (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1808433&postcount=21). It'll go great with the bathtub!

[debit]

Please lord help me

Jeff's parents booked a "family" vacation without even telling us until after the fact.

Wanna guess where?

Those fucking dirty 70's couple resorts in the Pocono's with the champagne glass bathtub. Seriously. We're trying to get them to change it to a Canada cruise. I'm not going to a couples resort with my inlaws. Not happenin.

Reason #426 why I'm still single.
Reason #1 is my incredibly small penis, but we don't need to go into that.

[WampusCrandle]

we've been going to a family ranch in Montana for a few years now, im 22 and i love going on family adventures - probably because up until a few months ago, i had not done anything with my family or cousins or anything.

[Furtherman]

I still occasionally go on vacation with the family. The only difference is I pay my own way. But it's always a fun time with my brothers. In fact, we rented a house down the shore at the end of August and I cannot wait to get down there and do nothing.

[grlNIN]

My family stopped going on vacations(places you had to fly or extended+ car rides) when i was about 14. I think to them it was that my oldest brother was 19/20 and the other 18/19, so i was the only "kid" and not really worth it i guess because no one would want to do the same things.

Originally Posted by angrymissy View Post
Please lord help me

Jeff's parents booked a "family" vacation without even telling us until after the fact.

Wanna guess where?

Those fucking dirty 70's couple resorts in the Pocono's with the champagne glass bathtub. Seriously. We're trying to get them to change it to a Canada cruise. I'm not going to a couples resort with my inlaws. Not happenin.

Ugh. That is terrible.

My boyfriend's parents are driving to Niagara Falls at the end of the month and asked him if we would want to go with them. They didn't ask his other siblings, so it would just be the 4 of us, in the car, for about 15 hours.

We were both kind of like that's nice of them to ask but why the hell would we want to spend 15 hours in a car listening to Christian rock music and then spend our "getaway" time with them?

Parents are stupid.

[LaBoob]

My family goes to Knoebels in Elysburg, PA every year since I was a baby. My grandmother's family is from that area (Shamokin, PA... coal-mining hill-people country) and it's been a tradition since my mother was a kid also. Knoebels is a family-owned theme park... you don't have to pay to get in, you can buy a package to ride the rides or just pay as you go with tickets, the food there is dirt cheap, and what other theme park serves Polish food?? (among many other options) ...pierogies (3 for $1) and halusky (fried cabbage - never tried it... I heard it's great but you'll shit your brains out) It's also the home of one of the top rated wooden roller coasters in the world, the Pheonix.

We used to camp every year... I told this to a friend of mine once and he asked if it was because we were too poor to book a hotel for a week... it was mean, but completely true, and I'd never realized that until he pointed it out to me.

My family's getting together next weekend to make the annual pilgrimage. We're getting a hotel this year.

Occasionally I run into people who've heard of this place but for the most part it's a pretty well-kept secret. Shhh!

[RAAMONE]

My family goes to Knoebels in Elysburg, PA every year since I was a baby. My grandmother's family is from that area (Shamokin, PA... coal-mining hill-people country) and it's been a tradition since my mother was a kid also. Knoebels is a family-owned theme park... you don't have to pay to get in, you can buy a package to ride the rides or just pay as you go with tickets, the food there is dirt cheap, and what other theme park serves Polish food?? (among many other options) ...pierogies (3 for $1) and halusky (fried cabbage - never tried it... I heard it's great but you'll shit your brains out) It's also the home of one of the top rated wooden roller coasters in the world, the Pheonix.

We used to camp every year... I told this to a friend of mine once and he asked if it was because we were too poor to book a hotel for a week... it was mean, but completely true, and I'd never realized that until he pointed it out to me.

My family's getting together next weekend to make the annual pilgrimage. We're getting a hotel this year.

Occasionally I run into people who've heard of this place but for the most part it's a pretty well-kept secret. Shhh!

my friends and i used to go up there and camp for a weekend every summer...it was great

[TonyStark]

They pretty much stopped after college. Now honestly, it's not really a chore anymore though because I can hardly spend time with them. In fact, from time to time I enjoy going out and spending some time with them.

[torker]

14

[TheMojoPin]

I think it goes in cycles. Once I graduated high school, I hated the idea of fmaily vacations and typically got out of them for the next few years. Then I started going again a couple years back with my parents and my brother and it's turned into a very enjoyable experience now that all the teen angst is out of the way and wih my parents living overseas.

[ahhdurr]

Please lord help me

Jeff's parents booked a "family" vacation without even telling us until after the fact.

Wanna guess where?

Those fucking dirty 70's couple resorts in the Pocono's with the champagne glass bathtub. Seriously. We're trying to get them to change it to a Canada cruise. I'm not going to a couples resort with my inlaws. Not happenin.

Possibly the most awful place on earth. Two years ago the only saving grace of a trip that was "comped" to us by my father in law was the Rutgers/Louisville game was on that Sat. night. and the in room sauna. If you lean too hard against the wall you'll fall through.

We're talking about doing a big family trip to a lakehouse next year - in laws, nephews, neices etc... everyone on that side (my wife's) is actually pretty cool and they have guns and things like that so there'll be shooting and whatnot. So that - I'm looking forward to. Plus my brotherinlaw and her uncles are all pretty cool so we can always just head out and do something cultural.

But to be single and go on vacation with family like you're 10? That seems pretty stressful. I'd say - once you're on your own - the end.