--- title: "8 Reasons Why Holidays Are a Waste of Time ..." description: "Short-Lived; Cost; Stress; Priorities; Tiring; More ..." url: "https://allwomenstalk.com/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/" category: "lifestyle" last_updated: "2026-06-02" --- # 8 Reasons Why Holidays Are a Waste of Time ... Nowadays, we take it for granted that we should go on holiday once, if not twice a year. It’s our right, we need a break, we need to get away … However, while there are a lot of places I’d like to visit, sometimes I think that holidays are a waste of precious time and money! Here’s why … ## 1. Short-Lived ![Short-Lived](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/short-lived_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x333.jpg) Photo Credit: [Shermeee](https://www.flickr.com/photos/smanography/2366162104/) The moment that you get back, it’s like you’ve never been away. As soon as you arrive at the airport for the return journey – maybe even sooner – the benefits of the time away seem to just evaporate, and you end up in a gloom that you have to return to the daily grind … ## 2. Cost ![Cost](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/cost_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x295.jpg) Photo Credit: [IronRodArt - Royce Bair](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/3839855418/) Holidays are definitely expensive. Hundreds of dollars, if not thousands, and it’s all gone in a week (two if you’re lucky). What’s more, if for whatever reason you don’t have a good time, then all that money has been spent with no benefit whatsoever! ## 3. Stress ![Stress](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/stress_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x375.jpg) Photo Credit: [colorblindPICASO](https://www.flickr.com/photos/colorblindpicaso/2702025167/) With delays, security etc, travelling can leave you exhausted and stressed. And then you’ve got to do the whole thing again to get home. At which point you barely have time to breathe before you’re back at work again. As they say – you need a holiday to get over your holiday! ## 4. Priorities ![Priorities](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/priorities_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x231.jpg) Photo Credit: [Colton Witt Photography](https://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzylittlemanpeach/4766465362/) With the current economic climate, many of us don’t have much spare cash. Sometimes we have to decide what’s most important. Once my bills are taken care of, my priority is my cats. I’d rather keep my money in case they need veterinary treatment, than blow it on a holiday. ## 5. Tiring ![Tiring](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/tiring_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_496x334.jpg) Photo Credit: [Twiggy Tu](https://www.flickr.com/photos/twiggyphoto/2931680844/) All that sightseeing is exhausting. And why do hotels insist on getting you up early for breakfast and then out so they can clean the room, when all you want is to sleep late? I would prefer to rent an apartment, so that I can come and go as I please – except that as a single traveller, it works out more expensive than staying in a hotel. ## 6. Other Tourists ![Other Tourists](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/other-tourists_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x341.jpg) Photo Credit: [ty law](https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlaw/3564642475/) Now, I like to think of myself as a traveller, rather than a tourist (the difference being that a traveller speaks the language and has a genuine interest in the culture). Whether I am right or not in this distinction, for me the problem is that wherever you go, there are tourists spoiling it for you! It’s obviously impossible to have a place to yourself. ## 7. Different Tastes ![Different Tastes](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time/different-tastes_8-reasons-why-holidays-are-a-waste-of-time_500x333.jpg) Photo Credit: [janine1968](https://www.flickr.com/photos/janine1968/4961805275/) Have you ever been on one of those family holidays where everyone wants to do different things? Or worse still, a holiday with friends where one person wants to dominate everything and make all the decisions? It’s hard to find a holiday that will please everyone in a group … ## 8. Pressure ![Pressure](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/www/2010/11/4858028168_322e3bbb09_500x333.jpg) Photo Credit: [ƅethan](https://www.flickr.com/photos/beth19/4858028168/sizes/m/in/set-72157623774429972/) Not everyone wants to travel. Some people would quite happily stay at home and never visit anywhere in their lives, or stick close to home. Yet it is only in recent decades that the holiday has come to be seen as an essential, almost as something that you are expected to do. So, what do you think of holidays? Do you find them a waste of money, or do you love travelling? Do you have a long list of destinations that you are slowly ticking off? Or are you a homebody who likes to stay in familiar surroundings? 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