HUGE challenge for you all!

Lunar_Eclipse

Beki wrote: »

i'd like to take advantage of the sun's £9.50p holiday

Sorry to hear about your fear of flying.

Haven't heard of the Sun's cheap holidays, what are they? I might be interested. But with all due respect to the paper & its readers, are they as bad as they sound?

Beki

LOL.. no they're actually great!

You collect tokens by buying the sun for (i think) 7 days. You then send off the vouchers, along with £9.50p for every person going, with your preference of holiday park (you get a list of hundreds to choose from).

A few weeks later you'll get confirmation back about dates, place etc.

Then you just take yourself along!

You can either choose monday-friday, or friday-monday

They're all caravan parks, either in the uk or france, spain etc.

miemie

Hi Beki
Hope your ok, i've sent you a message hun
Miemie

Beki

Thanks chick!

bunty109

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Perhaps I'm missing something, and appreciate that the birthday money is not guaranteed, but have you realised that:

376 + 730 + 275 = £1381

... which is enough to pay the required amount? Just checking!

ETA: I also assumed you were talking about Disneyland Florida. Although I did notice that the price was too cheap! We went to Disneyland Paris at Easter this year and can honestly say that 3 days, 2 nights was too much. Seriously. We did a Wed-Fri trip and no-one was interested in the park on the Friday afternoon before our 7.30pm return home. So I would reconsider the holiday extension and save the extra (almost £600!) money. We decided as a family, with girls aged 6 and just 8 at the time, that 2 days max was ideal. We arrived at the park on Wed lunchtime and everyone would have preferred to give it a miss by Friday morning. It's not that big and you can cover all the shows and rides in 2 days. Unless of course you are only having a couple of days there and spending holiday time elsewhere around France/Paris. But just thought I'd mention it in case it helps. Obviously it's our personal experience only.

Oh and do save up some spending money. Everything is very expensive; but thankfully there is a McDonald's so you only spend say 25 Euros on 4 burger meals instead of 100+ in the restaurants. Take fruit/healthy snacks too if possible since it's 'burgers, chips and crap' all the way sadly. Obviously it didn't matter for us with only 2 days, but even so I wanted the children to have some healthy snack options. Our hotel & passes were £600 for the 4 of us and return Eurostar was £400. Bloody expensive for what it is.

I have to second this. I really don't think the extension is worth it: Paris is a good size Diney resort but nowhere near as big as Florida and can easily be done in a few days. I've been at New Year and it's great, but can be cold and lots of extra days in the park could be a bit nippy to say the least. Personally, I'd consider the length of stay you originally wanted to book and save the money....

EDIT: just read the whole thread and wanted to say that if you are afraid of flying and looking for a holiday abroad for children, we've had some great holidays at Centerparcs in Belgium. A week in January would be about 500-600 Euros plus getting there by ferry or Chunnel. They also have lots of offers for booking early and lots of last minute deals if you check out their website (.com NOT .uk) We're going again this year and the kids love it: always something to do and easy to cater for yourselves. I know Centerparcs can be pricey, but the continental ones are WAAAAAY cheaper and much lesy busy than the UK ones!

Beki

Great advice about centreparcs belgium! Will look into that when the time comes! Thanks

bunty109

Beki wrote: »

Great advice about centreparcs belgium! Will look into that when the time comes! Thanks

You're welcome! We save our clubcard points and use deals to buy the trip over on the Chunnel for the car: takes about 5 hours to drive from Calais to the parcs in Belgium, although there are also some in France, Holland and Germany. Been to Holland but prefer the Belgian parcs.

clairewp

Good luck hope you make it. i would love my food bill to be £30 a week its more like £110 so hats of to you. I know it's high need to get my good girl head on.

gemmaj

I read on here about pre-buying Disney stuff in cheaper shops so when kiddies ask for some hideously expensive souvenir you can bring out the prebought one and fob them off! My little one is only 9 months so not something I have to worry about (yet!) but in case that helps you!

Beki

Brilliant tip gemma! Thank you

And i LOVE your sig lol