Holiday for teen dd who is a young carer

[Fieldwitch]

My dd is due to turn 17 in February next year over the half term and I really want to take her on a nice holiday as she doesn’t get holidays. She’s a young carer and has a severely disabled sibling, and life is difficult. It turns out her friends and her boyfriend are all going off on a college trip over the half term (she didn’t know her boyfriend was going and now turns out all her friends are as well).

We want to do something really special for her and have been saving to either take her to New York or possibly somewhere like Tenerife where it’s warm. Or is there anywhere else people could recommend? We know New York might be cold so prepared for that. It would only be one parent going as the other would need to be at home with her sibling.

It really depends on the child - Tenerife will be warm but not hot hot so depends if sunbathing and relaxing is more the preferred thing or shopping / theatre / sightseeing. Canary Islands much cheaper!

I guess it depends on her interests, but my teens loved Sorrento. Beach, food and brilliant transport links to Pompeii, Naples and Herculaneum. We stayed in an apartment and the flights were quite cheap.

NYC is the holiday my teen DC rave about, but it was eye watering-ly expensive if you do all the tourist stuff and why would you go all that way and not?

does she want to go away with a parent? One of mine loves me to take her away, my eldest son not so much. Would she like to go away with friends/boyfriend?

She’s quite like to go with one of us as everyone else is off on a college trip and I think she’d like to do something and I want do something special with her. She’s not a huge culture vulture but I think she’d enjoy NYC and it seems to be one of those cities people love. I’ve been lucky enough to visit pre-kids.

She’s mentioned about sunbathing but I think she’d get really bored and I’m conscious that her sat around the pool whilst everyone else is away she might get a bit of fomo whereas in NYC there would be quite a bit to do.

What does she like op, beaches / culture / shopping etc? What's your budget?

Have you asked her? Can she not go on the Collage trip?