Spec Me a Holiday Destination

Embed · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:37

Hi there,

Wanting to go on a weeks break at the end of June / start of July but cant think of where to go haha!
Could you recommend anywhere? I'm thinking somewhere in southern Europe?

-2 Adults
-£500pp
-Fly from Edinburgh
-Hot climate
-Located near a good beach
-Nice scenery (for exploring

)

Somebody did suggest Tunisia but I wasn't to sure will all that's been happening down there recently.
Is it ok?

And ofcourse if you can recommend anywhere that isn't in southern Europe that would be cool

Any suggestions guys?
Thanks a lot!
Em

Smit · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:38

What kind of accommodation do you require? This will make a huge difference in prices of where you can go.

Van Hellseek · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:40

Somebody did suggest Tunisia but I wasn't to sure will all that's been happening down there recently.
Is it ok?

Tunisia is horrible. Even when there isn't any trouble.

Is your £500 the total budget including flights, accomodation and spending cash? In which case you may want to look a little closer to home.

Embed · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:48

£500 just for accommodation and flights.

I'm thinking Half board.

Van Hellseek · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:50

Ah ok. Shame you've only got 1 week. You could 2 do weeks in SEA for not much more than that.

shifty_uk · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:51

I've heard some parts of Ibiza are nice and relatively cheap. Infact, we considered it(albeit with a slightly bigger budget) but the Canary Islands were too tempting again

Check it out, though.

MonkeyNews · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:51

Ive been to Tunisia and it was nice enough, especially if you like your history as you have Carthage to visit and plenty to see in the Museums and Galleries in Tunis. Also you can visit Tatooine and bag yourself a couple of swamp rats!

But with the recent uprisings I would stay away from North Africa for a while.

Van Hellseek · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:57

MonkeyNews said:
Ive been to Tunisia and it was nice enough, especially if you like your history as you have Carthage to visit and plenty to see in the Museums and Galleries in Tunis. Also you can visit Tatooine and bag yourself a couple of swamp rats!

Plus there's the colloseum which was one of the highlights. But having been there I honestly couldn't recommend it. The food wasn't great, there is a lot of hassle from locals trying to sell you crap, tons of chavvy tourists on their cheap family package deals, questionable hygiene in restaurants with cats/dogs running around. etc etc.

It's alright-ish. But you could do better.

cochoc · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:58

MonkeyNews said:
But with the recent uprisings I would stay away from North Africa for a while.

Agreed. You don't know which one's gonna go next! :eek:

Bearclaw · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:04

Malta? We went there last year, we did everything we wanted to do in a week, then got stuck there for another week because of that ******* volcano, but it wasn't the worst place to get stuck abroad!

rG-tom · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:13

Lanzarote imo, plenty of exploring to be done with lots of natural beauty spots, gorgeous island if you get out of some of the horrible tourist bits. Here's a few photos i have to hand from when i went 18 months ago:

1) Timanfaya national park, volcanic area where they film a lot of sci fi as it looks like the moon surface

There is a resteraunt at the top of a dorment volcano where they cook the food directly on heat from the volcano.

2) Papagayo beach

3) jameos del agua

4) Abandoned ship near Costa Teguise:

Very good weather being just off the coast of africa, and if you rent a car you can get from one end of the island to the other in an hour or so, plenty of exploring to be done

There are far more things than this but these are all I have to hand!

Tom.

lucky13 · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:15

Me and my gf have just booked a place in turkey for 10 nights flight and half board for 500quid. The hotel gets good reviews so quite looking forward to it now. We are going on the 13th of july from gatwick though.

Kind of hoping that Turkey will be a bit cheaper for food and drink as it is out of the euro too.

Edit: I remember that resturant when i was younger we went there and they do a little show of droppign a bucket of water down a smaller hole and after a minute it blast upwards.

Lanzerote is great.

Bes · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:34

Cape Verde?

J-FRO · 18 Feb 2011 at 12:44

Lanzarote is a great shout, mount Timanfaya is pretty amazing. Remember them cooking food over a volcano.

As for Turkey, also a great shout. Me and the lady went at the end of August, had temps consistently of about 34-36 celcius and paid about £550 full board.

some pics for you: