Family Summer Holiday ... am I expecting too much ?

monkeybusiness

Looking at booking a summer holiday for my family - myself, hubby and 3 children aged 18, 16 and 8. Would ideally like 10 days late July, either Canaries or Balaerics, and happy with self catering, but after an apartment big enough for us all, 2 bedrooms preferably and must be on a ground floor due to youngest having ADHD. Have been looking for few weeks now and struggelling to find anything to suit us with right number of rooms and costs are coming in at £3500 plus, and the majority are 4-5K plus. Am I expecting too much ... wanted to spend £2500 really - where should I look to book other than the usual tour operators ? Any suggestions welcome ! Thanks for your time.

Browntoa

direct villa booking and flights seperate ??

xHannahx

School holidays is your problem here. Even room only are looking well over £2k for 7 nights

nearlyrich

Try booking.com loads of apartments in Balearics end of July early august for under £1000 just need to check what flights are available from your local airports...

MasterPoo

Hi OP

I did a search on this forum and came up with these, , there are loads of suggestions

http://www.villaselect.com

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5200675

http://www.costabravaconnections.com

http://www.villaplus.com

richardw

Whereabouts are you in the UK?

Kedi_Yavrusu

We booked our summer holiday recently, 2 weeks in a 2 bed apartment in Corfu for £1,800. I booked flights with Easyjet and the apaprtment direct with the owner.

Last year we went to Turkey for 2 weeks end of July and spent £2,000 on flights and a villa.

£3,500 is far too much.

Have a look at Skyscanner for flights and Travel Republic, Owners Direct or Holiday Lettings for accomodation. You should be able to find something for £2,500 total that way.

Kedi_Yavrusu

xHannahx wrote: »

School holidays is your problem here. Even room only are looking well over £2k for 7 nights

No way! We are paying £600 for 14 nights for our apartment this year and we paid £1,000 for a villa last year.

MasterPoo

Monkey this just landed in my inbox.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/cape-verde-5-luxury-inclusive-7-nights-just-514-21-pp-departing-manchester-april-2185079?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=04132015&utm_campaign=Daily%2BHot

Caz3121

MasterPoo wrote: »

Monkey this just landed in my inbox.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/cape-verde-5-luxury-inclusive-7-nights-just-514-21-pp-departing-manchester-april-2185079?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=04132015&utm_campaign=Daily%2BHot

nice deal but leaves in less than 2 weeks and not in the summer :-)

ROY47

I have booked 2 weeks in lanzarote
flight for 3 of us £1300 with flythomascook.com

2 bed apartment for the 2 weeks £831 with alpharooms.com

all booked up flying out on 30th july