Holidays and hotels

Now me and the girlfriend are looking at booking a holiday, now she is all for the adventure going off the beaten track. This is all well and good but I'm a bit older now and long gone are the 6 weeks of Summer holidays it's a 2 week break at best. Now this affects the way that I think about holidays, I want to relax and preferably somewhere reasonably warm. So we pick up our laptops as is the way the holiday bookings these days and both found destinations and hotels. I have to say that both of us look for destinations that aren't going to be full of screaming kids and northern tattooed individuals. Now I've said this to other people and often they call me a snob, but my reasoning is this......

Why would I spend £2,000 odd to go to a place and mix with people that I would avoid on a daily basis anyway and why would I also stay somewhere that is not as nice as my flat?

Now really think about that it makes perfect sense, would you pay to stay in your own house for 2 weeks? No, then why would you pay to stay in somewhere that isn't even as nice. There is also another factor in this and comes back to one of the first things I talked about, the pursuit of sex. Think about it are you really going to benefit for the full delights of holiday humping if you are staying a dirty little shoebox that resembles a 70's porno set with a whiff of damp? It kind of kills the lying by the pool / beach and suggesting a bit of lunchtime exercise if the room is nasty. However a nice hotel room you will reap the rewards, thinking back to some of the places that I have stayed in I would say that there is a definite correlation between the better the room and the more fun you can have in it.

Moral of the story you get what you pay for ;)