Many of us are looking forward to a welcome return to foreign jaunts in the coming months, with travel restrictions being eased as head into Easter, half-term and summer.
However, cast your mind back a few generations and holidays meant quite a different experience.
A trip to the seaside or a camping expedition was a huge novelty for most youngsters and a real treat to look forward to with their pals.
For those from less affluent backgrounds, charitable organisations sometimes stepped in to provide a trip away from urban areas, which gave children some good sea air or an escape from daily life.
Here, we look back through the archives for some striking photos that tell a story of different times.
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1. Girls Brigade holiday
Girls of the 7th Manchester Regiment Church Girls Brigade (Rochdale Battalion) who are in camp at Bridlington, making the most of their holiday by the sea, 25th August 1939. Photo: Getty Images
2. Holiday by the sea
A crowd of happy children run toward Mr Brown, the superintendent of the Blackpool holiday home they are enjoying which offers a sea side break for poor children in the Manchester area, 16 August 1940. Photo: Getty Images
3. Off we go together
Boys from the Manchester and Salford Girls and Boys Refuges and Homes enjoying a summer holiday at Birkdale, 9th May 1936. Photo: Getty/ Fox Photos
4. Fruit picking fun
Schoolboys from Manchester Grammar School, carrying baskets of plums which they picked during a camping holiday in Worcestershire, 12th August 1940. Photo: Fox/ Getty