I've been thinking about this too, and DS isnt anywhere near school age yet.

My parents both worked full time when my brother and I were at school.

School holidays were always spent with one or the other parrent, they took turns in taking leave, we also went to stay with relatives - lots of holidays at my Aunty's house who was a SAHM at the time, and sometimes, especially in the summer holidays, we;d go to stay with my grandparents for a week or 2.

So not many family holidays as such, except at Easter when we would go away for a week or so each year.

We rarely went to holiday activity programs, but I do remember going to one of them and liking it, would have been early primary school.