Most middle class family holiday destination? (just for fun!)

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I haven't spotted a middle class thread all week so thought I'd start one just for fun 😜
In your opinion what are the most middle class or umc holiday spots?
Summer:
Any part of France (extra posh if you have friends or family who have a house to put you & the kids up in!)
Italian Lakes
Greek Islands

Winter
Barbados or similar Caribbean Island
Skiing in the Austrian, Swiss or French Akps (wealthiest go to Switzerland)
Christmas markets

This is just for fun & based on the wealthier middle class families I know! They all seem to go to the same places!

I’ve visited all of the places on my list and that’s why I suggested Sylt, v MC as a destination. Cultural, unspoilt, full of other MC and UMC people, and yes, in my opinion, MC travellers prefer ‘off the beaten track’ destinations, somewhere ‘other people’ are less likely to have been. A talking point.

Sylt isn’t known as the ‘German Hamptons’ for nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️

That’s exactly how I interpreted the OP’s post

While on the subject, why do some people say they’re ‘proudly’ WC? It’s one thing to be perfectly happy with it, but proud? It’s not as if it’s down to your own efforts - and you weren’t asked before you were born what sort of family you’d like to be born into - ‘Ooh, working class please!’
I can imagine the sneering on here if anyone said they were proud to be MC! .

I think it's quite clear from the tone in Mn's posts that many posters are clambering to be part of the solidly middle class - they are terribly proud to be MC, they wear the badge in everything they do - they don't say it explicitly, that would be too working class for them. The judgments from the awfully rude and overly superior MC are often insulting. WC people will say they are proud of their background, they refuse to be shamed by the judgy MC, and right they are too!

@Tsandjdarethrbest Hmm, I suppose I mean people who are well educated or cultured but are not in well paid or prestigious jobs.

Have been to MILs in North Norfolk this weekend (Thornham - The Cambridge's often take the kids to the beach there ) and can confirm the Hooray Henry's have arrived in droves accompanied by lots of children in Joules and Boden.

I was at Sloane Square tube station today. A couple of women were talking about which was the best beach to go to, and one of them declared W Wittering - it’s where Alistair Campbell holidays…. doesn’t get more MC than that.

😁 Norfolk is a very middle class destination for sure!

The hooray Henry’s 😂😂😂

London's finest can be for in Norfolk😁

@907097gjlj you will have to update the thread when you return from the Swiss Alps. Sounds idyllic!

People from the Gulf region go to the Maldives even for the weekend due to it only being a few hours away from most places here.

Does it have Dubai vibes? No not at all. Most of the Islands don’t have the space to begin with and are very quiet.

It’s just more accessible to people from all over the world now just as Bora Bora is also. And I’m pretty sure they’re may be some of the visitors that own a plastic hot tub as suggested by another poster (who I don’t believe has set foot in the Maldives) but it’s like everywhere else - you get what you pay for and your holiday can be as exclusive or as budget friendly as you want it to be.

And with regards to AI. It’s my understanding it’s he preferred way of some of the hotels to do their catering given they’re situated on isolated islands and it’s easier to buy in their supplies if they do set catering. Don’t forget though that AI (or so I’m told) can be having the choice of 5 or 6 restaurants to eat at every day.

Ouch, that's gloriously cutting 😂

Give me the owners of plastic hot tubs any day over the kind of nasty and bitchy snob who could come up with a gem like that.

The only people I know who have actually been to the Maldives (as opposed to saying 'I'd love to go to the Maldives') are fairly firmly poshos.

Dubai is definite inflatable hot tub territory though!

So far Norfolk, Cornwall & France are the winners 😉 Switzerland for skiing.

@ThickCutSteakChips we’ve been to the Maldives 3 times and we are the furthest thing from posh! I would never consider Dubai though so maybe I’m an unposh snob?

Agree with anywhere in North Norfolk. And Southwold in Suffolk.

I’m in Sardinia just now, it’s very naice where we are, though not many Brits around. Lots of yachts, cashmere / watch shops, expensive activities like diving. There’s one slightly tacky bar in town that’s it.

@workwoes123 sounds extremely naice!

Are posters confusing "middle class" destinations with destinations that are simply not rowdy and, dare I say it, not downmarket?

I love North Norfolk and much prefer Wells next the Sea to Blackpool. I loved the small, quiet fishing village that we stayed in when we went to Crete. It was 4 miles from Malia, which wouldn't appeal.

It has nothing to do with being middle class, and more to do with not wanting to holiday somewhere noisy, crowded and full of karaoke bars and places that sell all day English breakfasts.

@RampantIvy I'm not sure but there seems to be places that are really popular with the mc & then they fall out of favour once discovered by the masses e.g Marbella. My very posh friend used to holiday here every year when we were young (this is going back 30 years). She wouldn't dream of going there now as she associates it with TOWIE types..

I think for a holiday to be truly middle class, it has to only be accessible to a small number of people, no matter how much anyone can pay. So going to stay in a friend’s second home or sailing boat (ideally a friend of the family, godparent or family member) in France, Italy and some of the more sloaney parts of the UK. If you go skiing, you go with the same group every year to the same large chalet - you book it over a year in advance (it gets offered to you first) so, although it’s on the brochure, it isn’t actually available to anyone else during the February half term.

You book your children’s sailing lessons really early to be sure that they’ll get a spot.

Some of the places suggested are awesome but are available to anyone with money. That doesn’t make them properly middle class.

Someone once told me that MN is obsessed with class. I hadn't seen it til now

I think for a holiday to be truly middle class, it has to only be accessible to a small number of people, no matter how much anyone can pay.

Again, this comes back to "what is middle class". Surely there are huge numbers of middle class people in the UK, and they won't all be going to exclusive holiday venues. I think what you describe is posh/upper class/upper middle class.

I would've thought the vast majority of LMC and MMC families are going to naice 4 star hotels in Majorca/Sorrento/South of France, or occasionally on a longer haul trip to the US, Caribbean or South East Asia.

They aren't going to their cousin's second home in France, and then skiing in Switzerland and shopping in NY. They don't have the money or the time for that many exclusive holidays.

I think my definition of “middle class” is being relatively well connected (not necessarily rich). So going to stay with some friends in their beach house (and contributing with wine and a couple of supermarket runs). They might only (only?) do a couple of holidays a year.

The people who go to France then skiing in Switzerland then shopping in NY are rich. But not necessarily middle class.