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Vacation without children is a win for both sides

Traveling with children is seen as fateful, preordained and God-given.

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Vacation without children is a win for both sides

Traveling with children is seen as fateful, preordained and God-given. Unfortunately, however, such a family trip has become an increasingly expensive affair for the parents, especially during the school holidays. And if you think about it, it's actually the same everyday upbringing for everyone involved on the road as at home, sometimes things go more smoothly, sometimes less, just with better weather.

That's why more and more parents decide to go on vacation without their children. According to a trend survey by the Marriott hotel group, every tenth person in this country wants to park their children somewhere else instead: the older ones go on a leisure trip or go camping with friends, the little ones come to the grandparents: greetings to grandma!

And what do the parents then book? A relaxed holiday, neither with your own nor with other children's screaming. Adult hotels are happy: According to a report by the tour operator TUI “Holidays without children”, more and more such hotels are being sought – especially by parents.

Somehow that's understandable: finally peace at the pool, in the restaurant, in the whole house, without having to constantly endure other people's efforts to bring them up. You already have that behind you on the outward flight. On a recent flight from Berlin to Bergen, on which a pubescent boy with an overwhelmed mother terrorized the entire cabin for hours, a passenger asked loudly: Why aren't there any flights just for adults?

In any case, many hoteliers, especially on the Mediterranean, in South Tyrol and Austria, are changing their concept: children under 16 are no longer welcome there. That makes perfect sense: Because holidaymakers with and without children are difficult to reconcile - and children also need more space and attention. This is often not compatible. Children's pools here, adult pools there, family meals here, restaurants without high chairs there.

Even thermal baths are converting for short stays: The thermal baths in Sinsheim in Baden-Württemberg are child-free; the Bad Saarow thermal baths in Brandenburg now have two no-kids days, on Fridays and Saturdays. The protest is limited.

And what do the children think of that? Do they find it stupid not to be part of the holiday? No splashing around with dad, no museum with mom? No. Over-parents have to be brave here: from the age of nine, 38 percent of children are already happy about it.

According to a 2022 trend study funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, “Youth travels”, most young people from the age of 14 can do without parental care altogether.

Somehow you know it: At the latest when the offspring starts to meticulously keep a distance of at least three meters from their parents when they go on holiday together (either trundling after them or rushing ahead, always staring at their smartphones), it is time to go on holiday separately drive. Incidentally, 1.2 million children do this every year. Families can only benefit from a break - and look forward to each other all the more afterwards.

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