With three kids, cheap weekend get-aways with the whole family now cost the equivalent of a really expensive annual vacation for two. The alternatives are to travel alone (which I love doing), or set into motion the grandparents-weekend-caretaker system, which costs the additional travels for grandparents. Most people at this point buy a car. But my friends live all over the globe, I don't drive, and it doesn't really make sense for us inner-city-dwellers to have a car.
We've just accepted that life with small kids becomes very expensive for this reason (and a few more, such as crazily expensive private education). All luxury problems - and problems we have made a conscious choice to have (although if I could choose, all my friends would live right across the street).
Anyone with one, two, three or more kids knows that the real problem about traveling is not the price, but whether you can travel at all. One of the kids or us has been ill constantly over the entire fall and winter. My husband nearly missed our Christmas trip. And our weekend trip to visit lovely friends was just cancelled because my youngest got ill.
Praise to travel insurance. For the next ten or twenty years, we will always click that little box that used to cost more than the flight or travel price itself.
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