Over 50's holidays

soupdragon10

I am well qualified for these, but if I want to book would have a problem as OH is a lot younger. Does anyone know if these can be booked as long as one of you is over 50 or do both of you have to have reached that age?

anamenottaken

For Saga the companion has to be at least 40.

soupdragon10

Oh :mad: thanks for the information I couldn't find it on the brochure I had but thought there might be a limit. Guess I'll just have to wait for my hols.

penedawn

The person with you can be younger if they are 'your carer' but it does gets more boring for them the younger the companion is if, as they often are, the main community in the hotel is over 50. In addition you do pay more of course, although SAGA is usually good value for money but now you cannot upgrade many of the flights they use so for that part of it you are playing sardines in the cabin. It is rather swings and roundabouts. If you go with Thomas Cook (for example) the cost is less, the hotels are similar and often the majority are over 50 anyway. There are coach tours for the over 50's too, Leger for example.:j

margaretclare

Depends what kind of a holiday you want, doesn't it? People imagine different things when they hear the word 'holiday'.

I once went on a Saga singles weekend - never again, it was a total disaster. I was then about 60 (I think) and it was all WWII radio jokes and 'when did you join up - oh, you must have joined up about when I did'.

We were in tables of 4 for meals, myself and a lady in her 50s, 2 others who were busy swapping anecdotes of 'wasn't the sergeant awful'.

The same when we went on bus excursions. All the old radio jokes which I didn't know.

Where to book - well, DH and I often book a car ferry but travel independently apart from that. We're going to Shetland early May - drive to Inverness over 2 days then car ferry to Lerwick, have found a B&B in Lerwick.

I'm thinking of somewhere warm for a little later in the year and, as we've travelled with Brittany Ferries before, am investigating the possibility of Portsmouth-Santander and maybe one of those little villages along the Cantabrian coast.