Cheap holidays for family abroad.

cheesyboy said:
I'd drive there - a night in a Premier Inn in Dover, to break up the journey, plus ferry crossing would be about £200 (£270 if you hotel it both ways), and fuel would be maybe £150.
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Was going to suggest driving/ferry.

For flights you pay per person, for ferry you usually pay per car, so if there's going to be 7 of you, the ferry will most likely be much cheaper (went to Holland last year with me/gf/our son/my brother/his gf; cost us ~£250 in petrol & ferry, from Birmingham to Arnhem, if we'd flown it would have been more like £500 + transport at the other end).

The travel will take longer, but if budget is very tight then it's something to be considered.

I'd also suggest camping; again you tend to pay per tent (maybe with a small additional charge per person), should work out a lot cheaper than hotels.

The alternative is, why not look at renting a cottage in Wales/Cornwall? The weather is a bit hit & miss, but you're far more likely to find something decent in budget

How many people is the £700 budget actually to cover? Is that just you? You and a partner? You and a couple of kids?

How long do you want to go for?
 
cheesyboy said:
You can get a mobile home/caravan at a holiday park with water slides and entertainment in South of France for about £700. You'd need to factor in travel costs, though.

Something like this looks alright:
https://www.suncamp.co.uk/france/pa...rnerie-en-retz/campsite-les-ecureuils-108424/

I'd drive there - a night in a Premier Inn in Dover, to break up the journey, plus ferry crossing would be about £200 (£270 if you hotel it both ways), and fuel would be maybe £150.
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That does look good actually
 
RaohNS said:
Hoho... Another personal troll eh? Still smarting from last time I see :cool:

£700 for a family that size in six week holidays. Its going to be a tent by a bin in Benidorm for you I'm afraid. Lot of good meals will be thrown out and as for drinks... The drunks wont notice.
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How can quoting something you personally said, be a personal troll, Jesus Wept.
 
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Bear said:
How can quoting something you personally said, be a personal troll, Jesus Wept.
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Why bring it up anyway what my point was? He was asking for a holiday for a whole family (as far as we can tell) for £700.

That point is valid. Why should you with no kids care one iota how their education is affected? The parents look after and say what goes for their children not you.
 
RaohNS said:
That point is valid. Why should you with no kids care one iota how their education is affected? The parents look after and say what goes for their children not you.
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I couldn't care less about your kids education and I said as much before, you can go refresh your memory if you like.

It's your insistence in saying if you have no kids then any comment anyone makes about holidays with children is null and void, hence I repeated your comment.

Of course if people only talked about things they personally have experience on then this forum would be very quiet, which is why it's an extremely lame way of trying to shut down a discussion.
 
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Bear said:
I couldn't care less about your kids education and I said as much before, you can go refresh your memory if you like.

It's your insistence in saying if you have no kids then any comment anyone makes about holidays with children is null and void, hence I repeated your comment.

Of course if people only talked about things they personally have experience on then this forum would be very quiet, which is why it's an extremely lame way of trying to shut down a discussion.
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Where have I advised him to go in term time?

Where did you say you didn't care about my kids education I don't recall that. Show me the null and void comment too.
 
The main issues with holidaying in the UK is:

1. Weather - It nearly always, ALWAYS rains

2. Cost - It might only cost a tank of fuel to get there, but boy do you pay for entertainment, attractions, food (unless you take food with you).

We had a few days (I mean literally a few days) out in the UK last year....we ended up spending the best part of a grand on rubbish. That grand could have gone a long way for a holiday abroad. Thanks god the kids enjoyed it, but I hated it and didn't feel like I'd had a holiday.
 
RaohNS said:
Cheers I knew I said it just wanted to see how sad you would be in trying to prove a pile of crap point.

Lol cheers for the chuckle and glad ya wasted a few mins :D
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How old are you, did you have your children with your other half when you were 13?

It matters not as I get paid regardless ;)
 
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Might be worth looking at a camp site hoikday out in spain.

They do family size lodges on a lot of them, might be enough room to get the whole tribe in. I had two weeks in one myself a few years ago, a small one with two bed rooms... enough for a family of 4 with full cooking facility. There were many at twice the size with families in them.

Late in the season i got that for 600. Great nice clean friendly site, plenty for the kids, nice untouched part of spain.
 
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