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<p>Same policy in our family.</p>
<p>We have purchased S & D each one round trip to NY for spring break (different years). We have also purchased each kid a ticket LA to SF to meet us & visit relatives and let them stop in SF on their way home, to again visit relatives.</p>
<p>This week, S&D are driving S’s car from LA to SF to visit relatives and have not asked for any $$$. We have always paid for their plane tickets home for Christmas & summer. They have never asked to come home for any other occasion.</p>
<p>They have never asked us to pay for any other trips. They pay their expenses on these trips. Actually, S has not taken ANY money beyond us helping with tuition this entire school year. He’s paid for his own room, board, & entertainment. We’re very pleased. 
He’s also paying for his own insurance, AAA, maintenance & gas.</p>
<p>We’ve never paid to have D1 come home for the spring break, only for the Christmas holidays. And she was on her own when it came to planning and paying for her spring break plans.</p>
<p>She never did the “Daytona Beach” spring break thing. Not her scene, I guess…</p>
<p>Youngest D (so far) comes home on breaks although she has gone with friends from high school or college to ski (we live in New England). She also spent a few days with some friends (who she met on her semester abroad) who go to school in NYC. (They went to see another friend’s senior thesis performance.) Something like that usually doesn’t cost her much. She works at a camp during the summer and makes most of her spending money for the school year. We supplement it as needed, i.e., when she asks–which isn’t often. Oldest D never did the spring break thing either–except for her senior year. One of her roommates was really big on having their group of friends go to Veracruz. D used money that she earned from her coaching job and we added to it as a Christmas gift. As it turned out, D did not have a good time. She hated the whole college-kids-gone-wild scene.</p>
<p>We never paid for our kids to take trips over school vacation breaks in college or in summers. We supported them generously in college but not for this sort of thing. We do pay for any travel home or any transportation for them to see their sibling or grandparents. That said, my kids have rarely ever been home for spring break. But travel for pleasure is at their own expense.</p>
<p>My kids have traveled many places and my older one in particular, has traveled extensively since high school. While they usually fund it themselves, they have been able to find ways for OTHERS (not us!) to fund it. One of my D’s just learned this week in fact, that she will be going on an all expense paid trip to Germany. This won’t be the first time this has happened for either kid.</p>
<p>If my kids weren’t home for break, they were either visiting friends or going on some group camping expedition. Either way, any incidental costs were theirs. Same for summer travel. (basically same as what everyone here is saying.)</p>
<p>when I was in school, I paid for my own plane tickets or didn 't come home. my mom simply didn’t have the money.</p>
<p>S was supposed to have an all-expense paid trip to China, but with the swine flu scare, they couldn’t get visas, so he’s still supposed to use his ticket soon, before it expires. Will see what happens.</p>
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<p>Ummm, not quite as generous as it sounds, since we have only been able to afford family trips about once every 3 or 4 years. It’s not like we whisked the kids off to Paris, Vail or Bermuda every March. Had those been our yearly family vacations, though, we would have paid for the college students in the family to come along. The important difference is that we pay for family vacations but not for individual trips.</p>