too much vacation

How long is the ideal vacation? During high school I decided 10 days was pretty good, it allowed you to travel and settle in just enough to unwind and become comfortable with the new way of life. Eventually vacation life like Colin and Mary experienced for three days (“We can have a shower, and sit on our balcony and have anything we want brought up to us.” (50)) becomes tedious and vacationers begin looking for something new. Did Colin and Mary spend too much time on vacation so that their relaxed, and thus, altered minds confused an unsettling feeling with a feeling of curiosity and enticement?
Reading this novel with this in mind brought up feelings more of the comfort of home rather than the comfort of strangers. As Colin says, “The thing about a successful holiday is that it makes you want to go home” (106). As much as being in a new scene is enticing and freeing, too much of a good thing seems to become a bad thing.