First villa holiday what to expect?

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Now are kids are teens and not interested in kids clubs and the organised activities at the holiday village type places we’ve booked a villa with a private pool for our holiday this year. I’m feeling a little nervous as don’t know what to expect, how much cash we will need or what we are actually going to do to fill our time. We are going last week of June (first week of our summer holidays) so hopefully not as busy as the July/August summer holidays. We’ve rented a car for the week so will be able to explore etc.

How many organised activities/excursions do you usually book?
How do you fill your days?
How often do you eat out? Once or twice a day?

I mean it all really depends on what you like doing. I've done a few villa holidays both pre and post baby.

Pre baby (no kids) we did about 1 organised excursion per week, but we mainly like to chill so sit around the private pool and relax or find local beaches. We would eat out for dinner for most nights but not all.

Post baby it's different but villa's still serve as a good holiday, we do similar but don't go on organised excursions. So play in pool or go to a local beach. Eat out for dinner but less nights than pre baby.

spending money depends on your own personal budget however we usually roughly allow up to 100 euro per day, allowing us to enjoy ourselves, but we do usually have left over. We just came back from a villa holiday for a week with baby and changed £500 to euros and it was just the right amount.

A villa holiday really is what you want to make of it, you can do as little or as much as you want. I wouldn't worry or be nervous about it.

Where are you going? I only stay in Vilia’s in a town-some villas are in the middle of nowhere. We need more details.

As you have a car, you will have no problem. Do a supermarket shop on the way to the villa so you have food for your first couple of days. We use a mix of social media and online guides to decide what we are going to do each day and do not plan beforehand. As regards eating, we breakfast at the villa and either hang around and eat lunch then head out afterwards, which may include eating supper out, or we head out for the day and will eat lunch out, having a light supper back at the villa or a take out. You just have so much flexibility.

Rhodes so there is plenty of things to do.
Villa is on the beach, so a few shops restaurants on the doorstep I would think. Discussing it with dh last night and he thinks an excursion/outing each day, pool beach late afternoon into the evening.

If we do the £100 pp per day as advised above that’s £3500 on actives which seems a lot, Valley of Butterflies is €5pp and the water park is €23pp for example, £150 petrol and parking, plus money we would need for food shopping eating out.
It appears that a lot of places in Rhodes are cash only as well, so don’t want to change your much cash up.

We did similar (one DD and one DS) - choosing a villa where we could eat out in evening and then walk back without the need for a car.

In the daytime the pool took up a lot of time. Inflatables were very popular and a good investment. If your DC like books they may want to read by the pool so those can be bought beforehand.

Activites included visiting local beaches and wandering in the local town (check out market days). Simple pleasures really.

If you think your DC would be similarly entertained then budget accordingly - breakfast and
lunch in the villa (remember to buy multipacks of ice creams to store in the freezer and also drinks) and then spend money for eating out in the evening.

You go to the tourist office & get all the bumph. You decide what is good for everyone, check the weather forecast & start the adventure…
there are no rules.
You can also look for apps on Rhodes & walking/other curcuits.
You can find a potted history of Rhodes so you know the astounding history & try & gets the kids interested.
depending on the heat & ages if the kids, they will be happy lazing about, jumping in the pool, & looking at their phones.
maybe you should only allow phones at certain times !🙄

We used to do one day at the villa, one out exploring, alternating throughout the holiday. For villa days we had pool inflatables, loads of trashy novels and magazines, snacks and mocktails, card games and easy travel games. We'd maybe go down to the local market or cafe too.

Then we'd research interesting places nearby to do full day trips to places of interest - and maybe book things like a boat ride in advance.

This is a good idea. Wake up when ready, have a large breakfast, go out for a few hours, take snacks, come back for pool time then out for dinner or a takeaway.

Ahhh we done a villa and i loved it, our kids are younger 11,9 and 4 at the time.

Honestly i loved just getting up at a slower place and not rushing for sun loungers.

You will spend alot more on food shop than you imagine - we ate out every night, breakfast was on the BBQ ad lunch was crusty bread and meats etc.

Dont plan loads as once you get there you might find you just want to enjoy what the villa has to offer, we did do a water park ( car hire is expensive we hired for 1 day) and we did a sand buggy ride but apart from that we chilled during the day, kids loved having their very own pool and then out for a lovely dinner at night.

I realise ive been a mug as I cook most days on our holidays using my mums apartment