Can anyone help with a holiday?

babyx1uk3

Am looking to go on holiday in the April half term (April the 6th onwards)

There is myself, my husband and my two children (2&4 years old)

We have a budget of about £200 and would like to stay at least 3 nights preferably a week if possible.

We are in east sussex but willing to travel about 2 hours so can go as far as cornwall or upwards towards surrey,hampshire way.

Anyone have any ideas of where is cheap? Or places that give you a price per room rather than per person??

Any help would be gratefully received. Thankyou in advance.x

davetrousers

Doubt you'll get from East Sussex to Cornwall in 2 hours! I drove from Brighton to Portsmouth and it took an hour.

Have a look at Travelodge Saver rooms, you might get them for £29 a night.

griffam

You could try having a look at the parkdean site. We got a week August bank Holiday at the Lizard Cornwall for under £300 for four of us. bargain ????

babyx1uk3

Lol sorry i didnt write that very clearly what i meant is i would ideally like to travel about 2 hours but am willing to go a bit further if need be!

The travelodge saver rooms are they family rooms?

griffam

Sorry but dont do links......not that clever

babyx1uk3

griffam wrote: »

You could try having a look at the parkdean site. We got a week August bank Holiday at the Lizard Cornwall for under £300 for four of us. bargain ????

Thankyou for that site will have a proper look tonight but from what i can see the prices arent too bad so thankyou for that :T

Any more sites i would be very grateful for. thankyou.x

yummymummy888888

If I were you I would forget this country and drive over to France.

Look at Keycamp, Canvas, Matthews, Eurocamp, Siblu (they take tesco deals) etc for inspiration. A ferry crossing from Dover to Calais is included in the base price.

You will get much better value for money. English campsites can be cheap but once you get there they will fleece you for every penny you have. (they will shamelessly use your children too). It is brave parents that can say no to all the onsite entertainment.

Look up France on the holidays thread. You will see it is very popular.

want2Bdebtfree

We run an AA small 3* hotel and at the moment we would take a family like yours with young children for £200 for 3 nights B+B. I would check out sites like lastminute.com or active hotels.com. Alternatively, find somewhere you would like to stay and telephone the hotels direct tell them that you only have £200 to spend and see what replies you get. It may be that they ask you to arrive on a Specific day depending on their usual business. If you find a deal on the internet then contact the hotel and get them to match it - it will save the hotel commission.

davetrousers

babyx1uk3 wrote: »

The travelodge saver rooms are they family rooms?

The generally offer a Double room or Family room, the Family rooms have a pull out sofa bed type thing.

babyx1uk3

Thanks again for replies. Unfortunatly cant do france as only one of us has a passport so would mean 3 new passports at roughly £60 each which we havent got to spend on top of the price of a holiday.

Thankyou for the tips on trying to steer clear of on camp items like food,etc + phoning the hotels direct, will def try this before booking anywhere. Do oyu think haven and all those sort of places would lower prices if you phoned up??

Also thanks dave for the explanation of the family room, think i would rather sleep on a proper bed so guess that counts that one out! Still have other ideas now so all is helping so any more info or other places to stay keep it coming

davetrousers

babyx1uk3 wrote: »

Also thanks dave for the explanation of the family room, think i would rather sleep on a proper bed so guess that counts that one out! Still have other ideas now so all is helping so any more info or other places to stay keep it coming

In a double room, you get a double bed (TV, bathroom, Kettle)
A Family room is the same but you also get a pull out sofa bed.

And they cost the same