For all those who said they would “NEVER” you have NOT gotten to that point yet. B”H you have NEVER experienced an illness or accident a few weeks before Pesach which renders the woman of the house incapable of pulling it off. And you have not gotten to that wonderful age where all your children are B”H married and with all the eineklech there is no home big enough to accommodate sharing Bubby and Zeidy for pesach, so you go to hotel where you can all be together for yom tov, including maybe a great grandparent and some aunts and uncles. Or maybe you have B”H not experienced the day when ALL your kids are in a difficult position where they are ALL going to their in-laws that year. Or you work so hard all year that it is impossible to make Pesach at home. Such as families where both parents work and happen to be accountants bogged down in tax season.
It is lovely to be home and a wonderful experience but when I am home I rarely step foot out of the kitchen even with help. It is also wonderful to be at the hotel because I get to rest and am not in charge of cooking or cleaning, although the seder experience itself is different, yet one can go to many different shiurim that I wouldn’t go to at home because I go from kitchen to bed to shower to kitchen to bed to shower….. And of course I get to meet wonderful and amazing other yiddin that I wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to meet.
And like I told Esther Malka. WE have already had this discussion last year and probably the year before. The pros and cons, the cons and pros, the “never” and the “its great”.