Sooo happy - but need your help!?

ali-t

We went to tunisia last year and loved it - so much that we are going back again this year. We stayed in yasmine hammamet so the flight transfers were quick, the flight was less than 4 hours I think and it was incredibly cheap. It isn't my usual type of holiday but to have sunshine, a pool and a private beach within a 5 minute walk of the hotel it was bliss for chilling out.

lovenstuff

Thanks so much for the replies - all appreciated! We are lucky that my inlaws have a caravan in wales so we do get to get there with the kids - hence why this time we want to stay away from the camping/caravan/uk holidays and really give our kids the experience of a a foreign holiday! Just didn't know you got so little for your money these days lol! We looked at Egypt/Turkey but decided to hot for the children! Majorca/Spain etc would be perfect! Even if it was 4/5/6 days - i want to see my toddler paddling in the sea, no worries about weather, pools/slides etc!
The £1000 won't include spending money but we were thinking if we went all inclusive we wouldn't need much?! I'll have a look at the end of Aug/beginning of Sept - thanks for the tips

Buzzybee90

lovenstuff wrote: »

Thanks so much for the replies - all appreciated! We are lucky that my inlaws have a caravan in wales so we do get to get there with the kids - hence why this time we want to stay away from the camping/caravan/uk holidays and really give our kids the experience of a a foreign holiday! Just didn't know you got so little for your money these days lol! We looked at Egypt/Turkey but decided to hot for the children! Majorca/Spain etc would be perfect! Even if it was 4/5/6 days - i want to see my toddler paddling in the sea, no worries about weather, pools/slides etc!
The £1000 won't include spending money but we were thinking if we went all inclusive we wouldn't need much?! I'll have a look at the end of Aug/beginning of Sept - thanks for the tips

I have been to Majorca three times (as a child) and I loved it. I am very fair and so is my dad and we were ok with the heat, I want to go back now!

marisco_2

I take my two boys to Le Touquet in France. We use the shuttle to Calais then drive down. It is a really stylish little town right on the edge of a stunning beach, which has a whole range of different grades of hotels and nice bed and breakfast places. I would be wary of all inclusive places especially with kids who may not benefit fully from it. Eating out needn't be expensive and gives you more of a feel for the place. Also if either yourself or your husband enjoys golf there is a great course. Lots of beautiful countryside and interesting places to visit. Have a wonderful time wherever you decide to go.

Spendless

Just a thought but do you already all have passports? If not you need to factor in the cost of them too.

hippihaz

look at majorca all inclusive, if may half term could be all of your for £1000, maybe in the summer if first or last week of summer hols being slightly cheaper. the 1yr old will be mostly free and child places usually 1/2 adult price, so its do-able.

maman

I'm assuming you'll have to get passports for all four of you so that's another cost to factor in.:(


If you fancy Turkey, it's really worth looking at the May Half Term. Weather is pleasantly hot compared to baking in August.

AquamarineMonkey

I'm another one that would recommend Majorca - but you would be lucky to get it for less than £1400 all inclusive if you were planning on going in August. We've managed a couple of trips to Majorca during term time for around £900 based on 2 adults and 1 child and an infant is normally an extra £50 at most on a package holiday, but as you've said this isn't an option for you with DD1 being at school. We tend to book it about 3 weeks before, which is when we found we get the best prices as we're not fussy about destination so long as it's all inclusve and has a pool and gets decent reviews on tripadvisor, but I don't think they drop low enough to come within your budget in August.

I'm not sure where you are in the country, when you mentioned a caravan in North Wales I guessed you could possibly be in the North West. The only thing I can think of within your budget if you were to go in August would be a coach holiday to Disneyland Paris. If you are based in the North West, National Holidays do a 4 day break to Disney including 2 days park tickets, if you were to depart on 22nd August they do a 4 day Disneyland Spectacular at Dream Castle Hotel which would work out at £977 as the infant would go free based on a 3 bedded en suite room. But then you'd still need to buy lunch and dinner which might be expensive in the park and end up costing you the same as a week's all inclusive overall.
http://www.nationalholidays.com/itineraries/4102-disneyland-spectacular-dream-castle-hotel?pageindex=1&tourid=101425
Also, coach travel with little ones might not be for everyone. I remember going to Disneyland Paris on a coach holiday at about the same age as your DD1 and I really enjoyed it, but not sure how a toddler would get on spending so long on a coach. We also did a coach trip to Legoland in Denmark once, I am going back about 25 years though so can't remember who it was we went with!

It's possible you could do Disney cheaper if you were to self drive by Eurotunnel but the Park Tickets are expensive. Or maybe you could self drive to France and stay in something like a Pierre & Vacance self catering apartment by a beach somewhere? The advantage of that is that you can always do an overnight stop en route to break up the driving.

AquamarineMonkey

Oh, I should have added, when I look for last minute deals (when I'm booking 3 weeks before) I used the Thomas Cook website to search for the cheapest all inclusive destination as you can search without specifying where you want to go, then I actually book it through a1travel - it's not actually a package, they put the components together so the flights are seperate from the hotel and transfers but you can do it all on one booking online. If you go through Quidco you can get cashback at a1travel - we also got 15% off the price as well as they had a special offer through Quidco so it worked out much cheaper than a traditional package holiday, I was a bit worried at first that one of the components would fail, but everything was fine, and I'd definitely do it this way again if it works out cheaper (it doesn't always sometimes it's still cheaper to book a package through the tour operator).

Valli

maman wrote: »

I'm assuming you'll have to get passports for all four of you so that's another cost to factor in.:(

If you look for your passports online make sure you use a .gov.uk site and not one of the form filling companies which charge an additional amount (over and above the passport cost) to 'assist you' with your application; similarly use a a proper site for your EHIC

EHIChttps://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/startApplication.do