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Price. If you can travel outside of Dec 20-Jan10th and summer, you can pay maybe half. I have an annual grand trip around the world every year I do off season a

Price. If you can travel outside of Dec 20-Jan10th and summer, you can pay maybe half. I have an annual grand trip around the world every year I do off season and I pay less for it in points or cash (mix depends on the places) than friends do to go to Hawaii for a week at Christmas.

vlunkr 3y ago
Also, lots of travel is based around life events. I can’t control the fact that funerals and weddings can happen at any time of year.
- williamcotton 3y ago
  We’re going to two in-law weddings this year and missing a single day of school. Fly in, fly out. Funerals are bereavement leave from school so you don’t need to worry. I feel like 90% of midwesterners would be agreeing with me…
  - bombcar 3y ago
    It can entirely depend on your family/friend circle. For me and mine, In-n-Out is expected, weddings are happening in the locality of one of the families, many are day trips. Other people's family and friends will have multiple destination weddings, etc. Still suspect it's not a major component, kids can only have so many grandparents after all.
  - vundercind 3y ago
    Is there a regional component to this? Some of the “meh, missing two weeks a year for vacations isn’t a big deal” attitudes in this thread are very surprising to me, also as a midwesterner.
- mattw2121 3y ago
  You can control if you are going...
  - vlunkr 3y ago
    Lol. Yes I suppose.
williamcotton 3y ago
What about just piling in the van and driving somewhere? That doesn’t cost more in the summer. Is the expectation that a family takes a 2 week luxury vacation every year?
- chucksta 3y ago
  Driving in the summer costs more; Historically, retail gasoline prices tend to gradually rise in the spring and peak in late summer when people drive more frequently. Gasoline prices are generally lower in winter months. >https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/gasoline-prices-explained&ved=2ahUKEwiw9ujeyJmFAxVgkYkEHXu_D0MQFnoECBAQAw&usg=AOvVaw1tipZ5-BiZxGlq98ddbGLN https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
- MattGaiser 3y ago
  > Is the expectation that a family takes a 2 week luxury vacation every year? Only at a certain level of upper-middle-class affluence, but for them probably. But even one-week cruises are much cheaper off-season.
- ptero 3y ago
  > What about just piling in the van and driving somewhere? What about schools not sticking their nose too far out into the parts of life that they should not control? Like where and when we take our kids on vacations. If my kids get good grades and catch up on any missed homework the school should not get spun up about them missing some days. Turning schools into a mild version of prisons is not good for anyone -- kids, parents or the society. My 2c.
  - vasilipupkin 3y ago
    you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers it's not that hard, if you commit to going to school, then just try to go and do vacations during school holidays otherwise, just home school
    - 3y ago

vlunkr 3y ago

Also, lots of travel is based around life events. I can’t control the fact that funerals and weddings can happen at any time of year.

williamcotton 3y ago
We’re going to two in-law weddings this year and missing a single day of school. Fly in, fly out. Funerals are bereavement leave from school so you don’t need to worry. I feel like 90% of midwesterners would be agreeing with me…
- bombcar 3y ago
  It can entirely depend on your family/friend circle. For me and mine, In-n-Out is expected, weddings are happening in the locality of one of the families, many are day trips. Other people's family and friends will have multiple destination weddings, etc. Still suspect it's not a major component, kids can only have so many grandparents after all.
- vundercind 3y ago
  Is there a regional component to this? Some of the “meh, missing two weeks a year for vacations isn’t a big deal” attitudes in this thread are very surprising to me, also as a midwesterner.
mattw2121 3y ago
You can control if you are going...
- vlunkr 3y ago
  Lol. Yes I suppose.

williamcotton 3y ago

What about just piling in the van and driving somewhere? That doesn’t cost more in the summer. Is the expectation that a family takes a 2 week luxury vacation every year?

chucksta 3y ago
Driving in the summer costs more; Historically, retail gasoline prices tend to gradually rise in the spring and peak in late summer when people drive more frequently. Gasoline prices are generally lower in winter months. >https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/gasoline-prices-explained&ved=2ahUKEwiw9ujeyJmFAxVgkYkEHXu_D0MQFnoECBAQAw&usg=AOvVaw1tipZ5-BiZxGlq98ddbGLN https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
MattGaiser 3y ago
> Is the expectation that a family takes a 2 week luxury vacation every year? Only at a certain level of upper-middle-class affluence, but for them probably. But even one-week cruises are much cheaper off-season.
ptero 3y ago
> What about just piling in the van and driving somewhere? What about schools not sticking their nose too far out into the parts of life that they should not control? Like where and when we take our kids on vacations. If my kids get good grades and catch up on any missed homework the school should not get spun up about them missing some days. Turning schools into a mild version of prisons is not good for anyone -- kids, parents or the society. My 2c.
- vasilipupkin 3y ago
  you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers it's not that hard, if you commit to going to school, then just try to go and do vacations during school holidays otherwise, just home school
  - 3y ago