How to survive a terrible family vacation
Parents sometimes spend thousands of saved dollars dragging the family to dinner shows, museums, and chain restaurants. This leaves younger family members trapped in cabins for days, completely confused and miserable about why their parents chose such a horrible destination.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Staying back at the cabin instead of going into townDid this help you?
- 2Trying to find alternate activities like visiting local bars, nature spots, or amusement parksDid this help you?
- 3Asking online forums for destination recommendations and advice.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m just at a complete loss for words. how does someone spend 6 days and $5,000 in this hell hole?”source ↗
“Does anyone have any advice or anything really we’re hours away from the cabin and it’s so horrible here and i’m just so confused why my dad would want to waste the money he’s been saving for months to go to dinner shows and museums and eat at waffle houses and cracker barrel’s”source ↗
“I just got approved for 4 weeks holiday starting 1st of February. I am thinking about going to Europe but don't really know where to go.”source ↗
“My girlfriend thinking about visiting Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Munich, Vienna, Switzerland and Italy.”source ↗
“I like football and would like to visit UK and probably watch Arsenal in the emirates. But I heard ticket are very difficult to get these days and even if you can it will be very expensive.”source ↗
“Can someone tell me where should we go?”source ↗
Where this came up
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