Holiday without the kids - Suggestions

The weather is pretty crap in March for most short hall destinations and 5-7 days away isn't really enough to justify a lot of long haul destinations. Id suggest upping to 10 days if that's possible.

If not, I'd have a look at Morroco. Weather is decent, lots of flights and 7 days is enough to see combine a marrakesh City break with a few days on the beach.

Also not sure how you can be considering Dubai if the carribean is too commercialised!
 
weringo said:
Also not sure how you can be considering Dubai if the carribean is too commercialised!
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Yea I get that. It's hard to explain!

I guess it's because I wouldn't consider Dubai to be a beach holiday. Dubai vs St Lucia are different kinds of holidays.

If I wanted a pure beach holiday, then I'd be comparing Maldives vs St Lucia, and I'd pick the former.
 
Whilst the area itself is absolutely stunning, having just come back from a week in Sorrento, I probably wouldn't recommend a road trip - the drivers and bike/scooter riders are insane and even as a confident driver, they aren't particularly nice roads to drive especially in a car rental where you need to return it 100% intact ideally. Invariably someone will quite happily scrape your car, get out, pick up the bit of trim from theirs off the floor and then drive off! The roads up the mountains had a 40kph speed limit on - if you were doing under 60, you were guaranteed to have some guy tailgaiting, flashing and beeping their horn at you. I got used to it in the end but there were times when I would have been quite happy to ditch the car and get a bus - this is doable but the local SITA bus is awful (check the 1* reviews on Google).

If I was going to that area again, I'd base myself in either Sorrento itself at a hotel which organises it's own transfers to places (we had a villa around 20 mins drive away in the mountains) or Salerno and then do ferries to the relevant places to see such as Capri or Amalfi. We went 2nd week of April and the other thing is the weather still isn't particularly warm although that is of some benefit if you are doing sight seeing rather than sitting on a beach - although most of the week was around 15-20c, we had one day of rain at the end of the holiday and on the day we arrived, driving to the villa we had a mix of rain, hail, snow and then shortly after sun!
 
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NotAGolf said:
It's our anniversary next year and we're looking to go away without without the kids for the first time. As it's our 10 year anniversary, we're looking to do something a bit special. It also makes sense to go somewhere that we wouldn't go if we had the kids (e.g. due to it being a long flight, or somewhere unsuitable for children <7).

There's a chance we'd need to get back on short notice (long story), so it can't be somewhere too far away, or somewhere that only has flights every few days.

Criteria:
  • 5-7 nights
  • Flight time + transfer(s) < 10 hours from London
  • At least one flight a day
  • Not somewhere you could do on a long weekend
  • Suitable for mid-late March (i.e. not hurricane season, or a beach destination when temperature will be cold)
  • Less than £7k

Few ideas so far (not really researched these too much yet, so may not be suitable):
  • Florence. Hire a car and go down to the Amalfi coast.
  • New York
  • Dubrovnik, then maybe sail around a few islands.
  • Corsica

Any other suggestions, or thoughts on the above?
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Norway?

- Northern Lights
- Fjords
- Snow etc

The holiday can be as busy or as slow as you want :)
 
Bahamas ticks all your boxes, direct flights, great weather, as little or as much to do as you want, can even split between a few islands if inclined - 7k would get you quite the holiday over there. We've priced up around £5k for me, my wife and 5 year old and that's during half term time so outside of that, you'll get much more for your money.
 
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