I am sorry to be negative, but the whole concept is of poor provenance. I was fortunate in recent years in that my older children had their own plans, and also did not want to be shlepped by us, that I can generally spend a chol hamoed morning in the bais medrash, and the bais medrash is not quite empty. I heard the gaon and tzaddik Rav Brevda ztzk’l on his frequent chol hamoed adresses, and he was wont to speak against the current scene. He said it would be better for some to go to work, and that had he had the power he would abolish “the chol hamoed trip”. The passionate way he said this still rings in my ears.
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