POLL: Where do you sleep when visiting relatives at Christmas? (wife, inlaws)

[Great Questions]

My wife and I are preparing for our annual trip to Up State New York to visit her family at Christmas. Every year because I love my wife I agree to take valuable vacation time and do the long drive to stay at her inlaws. Because there are so few beds and so many cheap people who will not stay at a local motel, I get almost no sleep. The family is up all night, yelling and screaming in anger at each other. By the end of the long weekend tempers are so inflamed that everyone is at wits end and so tired due to lack of sleep, a couple of times there was a knock down drag out fight. But for some reason the same group will come back for more abuse the next year.

I beg my wife to save up some money and just check into a motel for the long weekend. That way we can get some sleep and some time away fromt the relatives. She says no one stays at a hotel on Christmas. So please, tell me what you do for the Holiday weekend if you travel out of town.

[macgeek]

My answer was going to be "In the bathtub"

Jonathann

[Mooseketeer]

We are going to see Hubby's parents ( if the weather allows) on Boxing day for three hellish days and will be staying in a nice hotel as their house is not fit for mould bacteria to live in never mind someone like myself who is slightly OCD about cleanliness.

It's bad enough having to see those people at all but I am not staying in that place.

[donie1]

I would stay Christmas Eve at the relatives home and then the rest of the time I was there I'd find a motel/hotel.

[HonestOne1]

Originally Posted by Mooseketeer

We are going to see Hubby's parents ( if the weather allows) on Boxing day for three hellish days and will be staying in a nice hotel as their house is not fit for mould bacteria to live in never mind someone like myself who is slightly OCD about cleanliness.

It's bad enough having to see those people at all but I am not staying in that place.

Ahhhh the joys of christmas.

We pretend to like people we cannot stand, and buy a bunch of junk we don't need. Yup. We're morons.

[sierraAZ]

Sleeping in a car? In the winter? And somebody even voted for it! You have to be kiddin'!

[JustJulia]

Nowadays, and hypothetically speaking (we don't travel at Christmas now), we'd stay at a hotel.

There are five of us, including two teenage girls. We take up space.
My parents and his live in the same town. A hotel is neutral ground, so we aren't "favoring" one family over the other. (This is a big issue.)
My parents no longer have available guest rooms, and his parents' house is uncomfortable. Two lumpy twin beds and a couple of dogs we dislike.
We don't sleep on floors or in cars.

[DrummerBoy]

Check this out: One year when I visited my parents in Austin, TX they had a full house since a couple of my brothers and their broods were there as well, so I slept in the backseat of their new Cadillac DeVille, out in the garage. Actually, it was pretty sweet; the weather was warm, being Texas, even in December (I think the overnight lows were, like 50) and that seat was soft. I even turned the ignition to ACC and listened to classical music as I succumbed to those soft leather seats and slept great!
I slept in the Caddy for three nights. My parents couldn't understand how I liked it, but I explained to them that during my starving musician days I slept in worse places.
Far worse! LOL.

[Hawk J]

What we have done in the past is to take our ol' 1989 37' PaceArrow type A motorhome, or take our ol' 1978 20' American Clipper type C motorhome.
The AC gets better gas mileage & it's easier to dodge pedestrians.

This has worked out good fer us cuz we have our own home, our own bed, the home our four-legged friends are used to We have a good time, & stop on the road in a rest area , when tired.

A couple winters we lived in the Pace Arrow fer about 6-7 months, down in AZ. Had a lot of FUN fishin', visiting family, going to the casino's, exploring, etc.

[Thursday007]

Used to just burn out on a hammock on the screened in porch.