To think south of France beach clubs have ruined DH

I find that beach clubs are full of tossers. Prefer a beach in the middle of nowhere. Packed lunch. Piss in the sea.

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Why should OP have to work out how to parent her husband?

A beach club is somewhere like the Blue Marlin in Ibiza. Posh sunbeds, nice pool, food and drinks service, private bit of beach and DJ.

This still isn’t the same as a beach club.

Guys, they aren’t talking about the thatched parasols and the wisened old beach dude with a bumbag who comes round to take your euros 😆

Theyre talking about beach clubs like in Cannes, Italy etc - although to be honest the best ones are in far east Asia in my opinion. In Cannes, Nice etc you can get drinks and snacks brought to you and a reasonable DJ but that’s about it - you get full service in places like Bali, Thailand, Vietnam.

Italy’s east coast is almost universally covered in beach beds.

That’s not the same as a beach club.

To be fair I agree with your DH, I hate lying flat on a towel covered in sand, even at home if we’re going to the beach I favour the one with rental loungers. It doesn’t need to be a ££££ private beach club though, plenty of hotels have beach access and loungers, and plenty of beaches have loungers for rent for a few pounds a day.

I dont have anything particularly valuable to add except, I literally could have written this post myself! Solidarity to you OP, I get the spoilt man baby husband who will only deign to holiday somewhere that you spend €200 a day on a beach club and I'm also bored to tears of Antibes, and the excessive cost!!

Ive spent ALOT of time in Puglia in the last couple of years, specifically around Fasano in Bari. Shit ton of beach clubs, absolutely loads.

And I too now want to lie on a deckchair and have someone bring me a drink tbh

We went to Icmeler in Turkiye last year, and there were lots of bars/restaurants on the beach that offered proper sun loungers on the beach. You could order food/drinks to your sun loungers! We also have been to several Greek Islands, where the same is offered. Alternatively, you book a hotel, that has it's own private part of the beach, and has sun loungers etc.

I think you (and others) might not have been anywhere posh enough to know what OP is talking about!

Belgian Coast - De Haan, Ostend, Knokke-Heist all have beach clubs. Of
course the weather is another matter…

Forte dei Marmi, italy

I’m confused. He’s causing a problem and you’re the one trying to sort it out?

Would one of the Mark Warner resorts appeal to him?

https://www.markwarner.co.uk/sun-holidays/greece/

Sounds lovely where abouts in south of France had these beach clubs op ?
When I went to Kos u can go into beach bars and rent the sunbeds and they serve drinks ect ect they had padding and umbrellas and some have the big beds as well !

Not read the full thread but residence Serenissima in Bibione north Italy and many other places near there have beach clubs included. Bibione great for a cheap family holiday. In Puglia there are also many 30 euro a day lidos which include beach service but need to book ahead.

First thing I googled is eur 150 per guest on the amalfi coast. It depends if its cheaper to stay elsewhere. Perhaps try the hotel itself?

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Oh the hilton malta is fabulous and has a beach club. It isn't a sandy beach soil didn't think of it at first. From memory I think it was eur50 per guest if not staying at the hotel. I recommend just staying in the hotel!

Dont we only have like 4 weeks of jet fuel or something? Not sute now is the best time to book (unless insurance would fully cover you).

He's not talking just sunbed hire, he's talking bar, restaurant ,posh toilet etc.

I'm sorry OP I don't go to beach clubs. We don't like the beach. Last year we did one day at a northern Spanish beach in August. Paid for loungers and parasols and positioned ourselves near the restaurant for a proper lunch and regular drink breaks.

I think you need to research the good beach clubs then work backwards from there for accommodation and flights.

If you'd just started a thread asking for beach club recommendations you might have got a shorter less entertaining less vicious thread that would actually have helped you.

Presumably you spend more on a beach club and less on a fancy hotel.

Try marbella and flash resorts in sardinia. But its going to cost you.

There are places in the carribean and Mauritius that have waiter service to plush loungers. Europe does seem to go down the route of hire loungers and hopefully have some lovely beach restaurants.

Croatia not great for sandy beaches but does have nice sea-side loungers plus drinks type places. I wonder if that would be any good?

That's just free sunbeds, the actual beach club is a minimum spend, around €100 per person

So don’t go to the south of France then!

Go to Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Croatia etc etc.

Every summer, wherever we are, we have at least 1 day at a Beach club and the only places I’ve paid €100+ per bed have been Ibiza and France.

A quick google of hotels in corsica with private beaches brings up this lot - some of the beaches aren't great though so you'd have to look closelyhttps://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/HotelsList-Corsica-Hotels-With-Private-Beach-zfp2963472.html