When you vacation with your adult children, who pays?
Posted by RitaR on December 16th, 2009By Rita R. Robison, Consumer Specialist, Blogging at The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide
Are you baby boomers traveling with your adult children this holiday season?
If so, what did you decide about who’s invited and who pays what bills?
One family I know debated about whether to invite the unmarried boyfriends and girlfriends of their kids.
In “Negotiating Vacations With Adult Children” on Uptake Vacations Blog, Laura Charon writes that she and her husband decided to pay the airfare for their two adult children for a vacation to Hawaii, but not the airfares for their significant others.
The parents would pay for the condo and groceries for the meals cooked there, one fancy dinner, one rental car, and one activity they could do as a family. The kids would pay for activities, a second rental car, if needed, shopping, eating out, and other expenses that came up.
What are your travel plans this holiday season? Did you invite your kids to vacation with you and work out the financial arrangement successfully?
Have you tried vacationing with your adult children in the past? Did it work out well? Or, was it a disaster, with fights about money?
Leave me a comment below and let me know your experiences.
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We’ve done road trips with adult children that involved flying to get to starting point. We met there, they paid their own fare.
Once on the road it was splitsville for gas. Sometimes we bought lunch, sometimes they did (roadfood.) Dinner was always split – unless we wanted to go someplace more upscale, then it was our treat.
They would pop for some booze or road trip surprise every once in a while.
They are late 30’s, we are early 60’s, and we are both working. That makes a difference.
We had some GREAT memories that we would have never gotten without these road trips.
Our “stationary” trips have usually been to Disney World, they stay cheapest off site, we stay on site. Same deal on food as road trips.
Sounds like Laura addressed it well upfront and hopefully there was some give-and-take during the vacation.
Hi GoingLikeSixty,
Thanks for letting us know how you split the costs when vacationing with your adult children.
It sounds like you have a lot of fun.
Rita