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Dorastar

ClootiesMum wrote: »

OK Dorastar - your challenge........

What area do you live in (have to assume you want to go elsewhere for a break)? Near Liverpool
How old is DS? 4 and DD 10
What is DS into? cars/mario/playing indoors or out - hopefully swimming a bit, DD likes museums and books and arty stuff and will go in a pool if bribed, will also play
How do you "transport" yourselves on holiday - do you have a car & do you both drive Both car drivers so no probs either way
What would be an unacceptable budget? Sadly - my ideas of cheap seem to differ from "normal" people? want to just go Mon-Fri so dh doesn't use all his days so thinking £500 max (to include as much as poss apart from normal food costs) We normally camp so basics are good but Feb is flippin cold for a holiday without lots of indoor stuff nearby.
What do you & DH fancy doing? Just want chill and family time - history buff and all like museumy stuff (done york though)

After interrogation we might come up with some ideas.....

My work is analysing stuff - I like information so that correct recommendations can be made - Can you tell?

CM

Alternative is to stay at home and go out locally every day which would obviously cost less but actually being away would be nice - although I am now sat here talking myself out of going away and saving all the money:rotfl:Or maybe 1/2 nights away with leisure facilities somewhere - OMG have opened up a right old can of woms now (am off to hide in cupboard under stairs and forget I ever thought of anything)

tellmeitsfriday

Depending on the cost of the ferry - what about Dublin or the Isle of Man?

Bitsy_Beans

Dora not sure how you feel about a static caravan but Ive been told you can get some cheap deals via this http://www.static-caravan.co.uk/ Not quite a hotel but darn sight warmer than a tent in February :eek:

Dorastar

I'm ok with statics - dh less so but has coped before. See I have opened a major can of worms:rotfl:

ClootiesMum

Let me ponder overnight

But with budget - am already thinking - Amsterdam? There must be deals for Travelodge type hotels with pools & Anne Frank's place & lots of meandering would suit DD & you & DH (but watch the cafes/coffee houses - don't mix them up). John Lennon Airport has a fairly good Easyjet/Ryanair departure as I remember - and sadly, it's often as cheap to go overseas these days as it is to stay at home......

But as I say - let me ponder & speak to DH........

Also a static caravan might not be a bad idea as suggested by BB - you did say up until the end of March - or can DH take the hols - is it only Feb available?

Dorastar

I teach so can only take school hols so got to be Feb if I'm going (which I better had be!!!)

Dustykitten

Dora

We did NE a good few years back and visited:

http://www.beamish.org.uk/

http://www.eureka.org.uk/Galleries

and went to the indoor funfair place at the metro centre. My boys would have been 2,8 and 10 at the time and it was most enjoyable.

vandanfc

What about Cumbria ?

https://www.hoseasons.co.uk/WebPages/BookingV5/HolidaySummary.aspx?SSL=true&bk=1&pcode=306&sdate=2012-2-6&dur=4&acode=lp4291&ucode=gr2&acount=2&ccount=2&icount=0&pcount=0&cunder=0&55over=0

Memory_Girl

Oooh!!! decisions - would recommend Scotland (central belt cos of access to some brilliant museums and days out ................ but Feb in a tent up here - NOT HAPPENING, simply not.

Brrrrrrr - and it is pretty Brrr here today, all the slates are frosted and sparkling

MG

groatie_queen

Dorastar - how about York? Best family half term break we ever had. So much to see and do. And to vary things we went to the coast a couple of days. Northumberland's good to visit too, for Beamish and lovely coastal villages. I'm sure others will be able to flesh out a bit more! But we never got round everything in York - still haven't seen the Transport Museum - but Yorvik Centre and the Castle Museum were great hits, as were York Minster and the Merchant Adventurer's Halls. The Shambles, a pub with Roman ruins viewable through a glass window into the basement, etc etc. - that all I can remember from about 25 years ago!

We stayed in a wee cottage outside York and travelled in every day. If renting a cottage too dear, and you dont fancy a static caravan in Feb (could be expensive for gas heating) - how about a family room in a youth hostel?

My friend and I shifted 2 carloads of garage and shed toot to the dump, and a full load to the charity shop. Sadly, the shed isn't even fit for firewood, so I'll have to pay someone to cart it away for me.

Second viewer this afternoon, fingers crossed!