Need to book a holiday today or tomorrow!

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Live in Scotland and have 2 DCs. Work have told me I have to take my annual holiday on jan 7th for a week.
Want to go to the sun and be walking distance to a lovely restaurant. Happy to drive to beaches!need to book ASAP.
Can u help me! ? Never been abroad before with small children. No longer than 5 hour flight as cant bear it!
Aibu - is it too late?
Thanks everyone!

look at the website on the beach they have some good deals, look at tunisia, warm at this time of year, canaries, spain, malta is cheap and pretty, turkey is ace in good weather but too cold at this time of year

Tunisia - thanks - never thought of that! On the beach - going on it now!

Tenerife, we went last january and are booking again for a few weeks time. It was lovely and warm.
Also try Fuerteventura, gran canaria or lanzarote.

Egypt is warm too, and easier on the stomach in my experience

(than Tunisia)

I wouldnt touch either of those with children, but thats just me. Have no desire to go to Turkey/tunisia/egypt

Think am veering to Tenerife or lanzarote - any resorts?

tenerife los christianos, playa del americas is more bars and nightlife beach at christianos is better for kids

Do you have passports?

Lanzarote is lovely at this time of year. We always stay in Matagorda, which is right next to Puerto Del Carmen (the busiest resort), it is very family friendly, not too expensive and you can walk into PDC in 20 minutes along the road which is lined with restaurants and shops one side, and beach the other.

look on low cost holidays.com for bargains. i'd stick with canaries.

check weather. dont think tunisia will be hot in jan.

egypt is somewhat unsettled politically, atm. how about north korea? sorry, couldnt resist that!

Playa Blanca in Lanzarote is nice. Bit of a sandy beach, few shops/bars/restaurants but not rowdy.

If it were me I would book the flight with Monarch, and use HolidayNights or Alpharooms for the accomodation. Works out much cheaper.

If you are hiring a car, I recommend AutoReisen (they are at all Canaries airports) as they use good clean cars, they are cheap, they dont rip you off with a deposit.

Playa Blanca is ok, but we found that to be too quiet, and expensive compared to PDC.

I would say avoid Costa Teguise.

You can also just call a lot of the small resorts direct once you've found one you like and they often give you very good prices.

Another one that says the Canaries.
I went to Tunisia many years ago in November and it was freezing.
Lots of places in Lanzarote for families.

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - just got back last week - ticked all our boxes x

Not Tunisia - it's not a beach resort at this time of year. Canaries would be a better bet although friends have been to Fuertaventura in Jan and had it wet and cool - not warm enough to swim in the pool.

tunisia is not that warm this time of year. it might be nice during the day but very cold at night but great place to take children in the spring

what about dubai great hotels, good restaurants and a great water park. i think it would be an easy holiday with children and weather will be good

Canaries weather is very nice at the moment, and the forecast for the next couple of weeks is good.. low to mid 70's.

We stay at a place that has a heated pool, (Costa Sal complex) which means that even if it isnt baking hot, the pool is still comfortable to swim in.

Thanks everyone - playa blanch
Looks fab

we stayed in an apt at the princessa yaiza hotel in playa blanca. we loved it. dc were 2yo and 4 months old at the time, so we wanted a low key place. plenty of restaurants tho. that was in november a few years back so equally out of season.

We went to Puerto Mogan in Gran Caneria, has a fab hotel/appt complex with child friendly facilities. Small beach, not too rowdy, only a short bus journey away from major resorts, some fab trips too - check it out on trip advisor/google x