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Where are you going on holiday this year?

143 replies

Bluewavescrashing · 02/01/2020 21:44

January is the most popular time of year for booking a holiday. So have you booked yours yet?

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carrie74 · 03/01/2020 10:16

Centreparcs next weekend

Gulf Coast of Florida at Easter

SW france in the summer.

We book the big holidays as soon as flights are released to get best prices for school holidays, so need to be quite organised, otherwise I couldn't justify the costs. Our US flight and car hire costs rarely exceed £2k for the 4 of us at Easter (peak time for Florida). Same deal now during January sales would likely be double.

pisspants · 03/01/2020 10:20

why is it that everyone on these mn holiday threads is always going on 4 holidays per year several long haul?!!!
in order to balance! I am doing 2 weeks of camping up north - Northumberland, Edinburgh and the West coast of Scotland. Am keeping everything crossed for good weather!

TreacherousPissFlap · 03/01/2020 10:24

Week in Sardinia AI once DS has finished GCSE's. First time we've done AI but it's with Nielson so hoping it will be fine.

Also planning a long weekend to Tours while DS is on an expedition - we stayed there overnight last year en-route home and had an absolute ball.

Few days away in February half term if revision is going ok, and hoping to be away for Christmas this year.

PlaymobilPirate · 03/01/2020 10:28

We'll be going back to Side in Turkey.

I posted on here last year in a tizzy about going - heard lots of horror stories but we loved it. 5 Star plus All Inclusive. £2.5k for 3 of us for 2 weeks. We barely left the hotel.

It'll be our honeymoon too as we get married in July. Just waiting for Jet2 to release their free child places!

par05 · 03/01/2020 10:30

Booked flights for Italy with kids and myself! 8 days in total to Rome Florence and Venice, have booked Airbnb's and flights through easyjet, still got transfers to book, but not going until july, has anybody else done Italy on their own with kids (I have 4) ages 16 to 7!

Caramel78 · 03/01/2020 10:33

Honeymoon in Tuscany in September. We’ll probably do a week in Dorset at some point too and a weekend in Centre Parcs. If we can find a good deal we’d like to have a long weekend in Scandinavia next winter too (Finland or Sweden ideally)

yellowsun · 03/01/2020 10:34

We (DH, DS and I) are doing 7 nights in Lisbon in a lovely hotel. We were thinking about doing a two or multi stop holiday with Porto and the algarve but decided not to. Last year we did lots of travelling about in Cornwall and all the packing up and moving on got a bit tiresome after a while. Instead, we are going to do lots of day trips, including to Sintra.

I’m also going to Dorset with DS and my mum For 5 days.

We’d also like to do Harry Potter Studios, Edinburgh and York at some point!

suitepea · 03/01/2020 10:35

Going to Japan with our 18 month old in six weeks time. Haven't been anywhere since LO arrived so really looking forward to it

MinnieMountain · 03/01/2020 10:39

DH and DS are going skiing in February half term.

I'm taking DS to Centre Parks whilst DH goes skiing by himself.

May half term in Wells-Next-the-Sea.

I'm going on a swimming holiday in Slovenia.

Weekend in Bristol.

A week in Pembrokeshire for the last week of the summer holidays.

We're still deciding where to go for October half term.

ineedaholidaynow · 03/01/2020 10:50

pisspants I am amazed how many foreign holidays people seem to be having in one year. Obviously not been listening to Greta.

Deadringer we went to Salzburg quite a few years ago, and did our Do Re Me impression on the steps! We stayed in the Austrian Lake District and then got the bus to Salzburg.

Bickles · 03/01/2020 10:54

Gran Canaria for a week at Easter
Long weekend in Northumberland in May
Majorca for a week in July
Cotswolds long weekend in August
Florida for 18 nights in October.
Love holidays!

timeforawine · 03/01/2020 10:57

Tobago in May, Majorca/Menorca/Ibiza in August, still looking at that one, New Zealand and Fiji in Nov.
My 3yr old is very excited, she loves holidays.

Oldraver · 03/01/2020 11:01

New Forest

bloodywhitecat · 03/01/2020 11:06

No plans at the moment, we foster which complicates things. Our two year old is likely to be moving on to adoption in the next few months but our baby is likely to still be with us. I don't know how we would go about planning a trip abroad with unknown children and although we can have three weeks of respite very year it just seems very wrong to go away and leave the children behind, they are our family.

Bluewavescrashing · 03/01/2020 11:14

I have just booked two nights in a hot L in Devon for May half term. So 4 trips planned for 2020 (3 abroad) and all bargainous! Yay for holidays Grin

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Bluewavescrashing · 03/01/2020 11:21

Hotel I mean.

I love a hotel. Self catering is fab too. But I get excited about staying in hotels Blush

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FeigningHorror · 03/01/2020 11:38

You’re disappointing me now, @Bluewavescrashing. Hot L was clearly a Devonian swingers’ resort.

isseywith4vampirecats · 03/01/2020 11:42

Edinburgh at the end of this month for a long weekend, Scotland coast and islands end June beginning of July on our motorbike , Naples for a week mid October

Cavort · 03/01/2020 11:50

Currently in Dubai (home tomorrow after 8 days). Villa in Croatia for 2 weeks in July. Cornwall in a motorhome for a week at the end of August.

TheresWaldo · 03/01/2020 11:56

I've booked a child free week in Sorrento at Easter and a grand UK tour for the summer - Oxford, Cotswolds, Liverpool and North Yorks coast. Just currently looking at booking a girly weekend in Lisbon and a quick trip to Paris for my aunt's 70th birthday.

jarviscockatiel · 03/01/2020 12:09

We're off to Lebanon in February. Really hoping to go to Namibia at Easter but nothing else booked yet. Love travelling.

lovemenorca · 03/01/2020 12:18

@pisspants

why is it that everyone on these mn holiday threads is always going on 4 holidays per year several long haul?!!!
Is it really such a mystery that people who enjoy and go on lots of holidays would be drawn to this thread?!

Bluewavescrashing · 03/01/2020 12:20

@FeigningHorror Grin

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Chocolatemice · 03/01/2020 12:25

A week either walking in Yorkshire or exploring on the Jurassic coast. My life means that going abroad is unrealistic, and there is so much to see in this country.

PandancerandRabbitoplh · 03/01/2020 12:28

Going to Borneo, Perhentian Islands and River Kwai in Thailand.