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09/8/2014 at 10:54am
Location: north wales
Outfit: Sprite Quattro FB
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Our daughter is 14 and my grand-daughter is 12. They came with us this summer but it isn't the great experience it used to be. When they were younger they would go out to the play area make new friends. Now they just mope around the van with their tablets.
We are going away August bank holiday - just the two of us. We had thought whether we should sell the van but we enjoy it. In the future we may have one family holiday a year ( package to suit my daughter and then just go away in the van the rest of the year - just us.
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09/8/2014 at 11:49am
Location: west country
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Why worry about what you are going to do in 3 years time. If it's not currently working for you then get rid and save the depreciation, storage, servicing etc.
If you do feel like it in 3 years then go & buy a van.
We gave up 20 odd years ago. Didn't miss it for 15 years. Now given up again & enjoying foreign winter breaks in the Canaries.
Who knows what we may be doing in 3 years.
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09/8/2014 at 2:39pm
Location: Northern Ireland
Outfit: Bell Tent Vango Coleman and Quechua
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Sell the van, keep your chairs. Buy a stand up height easy to pitch tent (no worse than your awning) and a decent bed set up and off you go just the two of you if you feel like it, and ship the moody youngsters off to willing relatives.
I've got my two kids to 17 and 18. This last three or four years have made holidaying difficult, due to strops, hormones and unwillingness to run off and play football/make friends/do anything other than moan. This year I feel we have recently had our last family 'main' holiday until they are much older at least and maybe have families on their own. I am widowed so there is just me - and I do have the very occasional weekend away on my own with just my dog for company. It is quite blissful to be able to just suit myself.
I love my kids to bits and would do anything for them but teenagers are a challenge.
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09/8/2014 at 10:32pm
Location: Slaving away
Outfit: Dandy (Magic mushroom) BMW 3 series
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Never used to get the teenage sulks. Always went to a site where the boys met up with friends.
Most families returned there year after year so kids could meet up, happy kids happy parents.
Had no trouble getting kids to come until the site closed down. Now we are static van hirers due to health issues and they are coming with partners and pets. Have to have a larger van just in case. Never kniw who will turn up.
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09/8/2014 at 11:49pm
Location: north wales
Outfit: Sprite Quattro FB
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The problem is partly down to feeling that other kids are getting a better deal by jetting off to resorts. We did all this when she was young. It was ok at the time but these med resorts start to feel alike. There are so many british themed bars in some of them that you could be anywhere.
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