Shit holiday

Sometimes you just don't click with a place. DH and I left Oxford a day early as we found it really dull & we couldn't wait to move on to somewhere more interesting. Apparently house prices are nuts as people are queueing up to live there - lord knows why?

Research all the indoor things to do in rhe area. Potentially hire a car and fo futher afield.
Ss can do go karting and things with dad, you could go on some museum visits with baby. You might have to split up for things then have nice dinners together.
Cinema and cafes that have board games and play sesions.
Find local mother and baby events and activities for you and things like indoor rock climbing for the boy.
Visit the malls, churches, theme cafes and search for things like family activities for making local food.

Any ‘vibrant city’ will have galleries, museums, cinemas, restaurants and shops. I can only assume the holidaymakers don’t enjoy each other’s company.

How can anyone be bored in a vibrant city?
Is there no sightseeing?

I thought somewhere like Rome.
There is so much to see and do in New York no one could possibly be bored, unless you don’t enjoy walking and sightseeing, in which case wrong place to book 😆

One of the reasons we have always booked two weeks. You can hope that at least one of them will have some decent weather!! (but get that not everyone is able to do this due to £ or time off) And another reason we have always booked a private villa with a pool.

We always went to the Canary Islands with our girls when they were young. Mostly great weather although one year we did have some rain on a couple of the days. We took the opportunity to go out and explore the area, find some attractions indoors to go to and on one of the days, when we got back, we still went in the pool with the kids. It was actually really fun and we laughed a lot and we always remember that holiday where we swam and played in the pool in the rain.

As we had our own Villa there was always the TV and always a selection of books and games so we would also play board games for a while.

It is crap when the weather is shite but sometimes you have to just suck it up and make your own fun. In the evening if there was a little rain we would stay and cook at the Villa and DH and I would open a bottle of wine. That always helps!

Think outside the box and try and just enjoy the fact that you are still on holiday and rest, relax and enjoy the food and drink at least.

Hope it perks up!

Admittedly Antalya is not the best place to be with bad weather as weather is it's main redeeming feature.

I would look up the best rated restaurants and eat in a different one every day. Visit all the museums, churches / mosques you can.
I love taking my little ones to museums, they enjoy it far more than you'd expect.

I'd also definitely try the aquarium as that should be spot on for both an 8 year old and 1 year old - and so relaxing for adults too.

https://www.antalyaaquarium.com/En/Anasayfa

Big IKEA !

Op is not unreasonable but the poster who is bored in the most vibrant city in the world is very very unreasonable.

Oh no - Turkey has proper seasons so is typically rainy this time of the year. Go into Antalya old town or Side. Both lovely towns with lots to see. Hope the weather improves, I always think rain on holiday is better than rain in the uk but maybe not 😂

Just enjoy it - you are all together, the whole family - not many in the UK can afford it these days - you don't have to cook, go to school, shop, clean! You can teach your kids all you want, you can have long conversations with your dh and dc, you can really bond! Without the stupid TV, digital devices and Netflix! And swim! You can swim in that pool, you can actually live in that pool having all those conversations with your family!

At least Coventry has lots of indoor stuff to do with kids in the rain...

Ah, that is crap. Hope the weather improves soon.

I have also been camping in Kerry in the summer. after four days of torrential rain we thought fuck it and went home. I lived in Ireland at the time and it was only on my fifth drive around the Ring of Kerry that it was any decent weather at all, most of the time it was foggy as fuck and pissing down. I know it’s gorgeous and all, but I don’t know why people bother most of the time. I always found weather better in west cork.

Sympathies @WorkingMum1391 we’ve been there! Booked the Maldives for a big birthday and the monsoon hit two months late and it was torrential rain. DC were bored, no flights home and I guess because it was something we had saved up for for years there were such high expectations!

It will get better- there will be excursions you can do and I would absolutely check out the kids club for both kids- even if you stay with them it’s a change of scenery.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather improves for you.

Sometimes a holiday is great just because you’re not at work, or juggling home chores, washing, cleaning and cooking.
i think sometimes it takes a few days to wind down if you’re always on the go. There can also be a bit of initial disappointment due to expectations as you get used to a slower pace. Just lying with your baby, having a doze, listening to an audio book, reading a kindle, doing some stretching, WhatsApping a friend watching something on your phone with headphones in.. can be pleasurable when you’re not thinking about what to cook or an up and coming work meeting.
Hope you treasure some time with family and living in the moment @WorkingMum1391 xx

It’s all over tik tok about Turkey weather atm and some people are ACTUALLY booking flights to come home 😂
I mean how ridiculous have you got to be to spend all that money to be put off by the rain enough to spend more money coming home . People just can’t seem to amuse themselves anymore unless it’s not perfect conditions .

Hey the weather says nice for tomorrow in Antalya ☀️🌞and a bit mixed at the weekend. At least it's not sweltering and you have to worry about sun burn and heat rash. Let's hope it perks up a bit.

Ds has just gone away for a few days and it's forecast rain and much colder than here. You can never predict. I've got a holiday booked in this country and the weather will probably be shite it's a downer.

It's all a bit of a shock going away with small children first time.

What a weird take. People who live there have jobs to go to, family and friends to visit, a tv and toys for their kids. OP is entitled to a bit of a moan!

Ugh that’s so disappointing.

Did you pay a lot?

Well you are making it a shit holiday aren’t you. People live there all the time when it rains so explore alternatives to what you had planned. Put the baby in a buggy and off you go.

Where are you?

feel for you .DH went to Istanbul last week when it was nice here. Two days before he left it was 22 degrees. When he got there it was 4 degrees and actually snowing. It would appear this time of year in Turkey can't be reliable.

Yes, agree!!!