To strongly suggest you all consider the Isle of Mull for your family holiday next summer

[mrsmaturin]

Just back from our fortnight there and it's such a brilliant family holiday place that I feel the need to enthuse......

Lovely beaches, clean sea

Wildlife watching that even young children can join in with - and some fantastic sights. A White tailed Eagle landed about 50 ft from our car as we were driving to the ferry this morning...

The ferry - fab fun and v child friendly way to travel

Iona and Ulva - really lovely opportunities for a day trip that involves a ferry ride

Swimming pool - for wet days

Lots of options for family bike rides and walks

AND we've come home with tans too

We have just returned from a week in Mull and one in Skye, and it was fab! Wildlife - otters, eagles, sparrow hawk, Merlin, kestrel, loads if smaller birds, seal, dolphins. Deserted gorgeous beaches. No midges!! Loads to do. Skies so dark at night you can see the Milky Way and loads if shooting stars - stunning. We 'll be back.

Oooh yes I forgot about the star gazing possibilities......

Also you can easily be out of mobile signal - which has its advantages.

Just don't camp

Especially don't camp
When your eldest has chickenpox the other 2 have D&V and you have whooping cough.

And the rain is horizontal.

Just don't

We once met a family at the church we go to on Mull. It was their second visit. They'd come at the same time the year before too - with two small dc who both had d &v whilst they were there and it rained, a lot. They'd camped.
The year we met them they were self catering. With their third child who was exactly 3 months old.....so I guess camping wasn't a total disaster

Blatant place marking.

We walked to this beach this year. Just saying.......

It looked exactly like that too!

don't forget Tobermory - its awesome, and where dh and I 'honeymooned'

That beach looks fabulous Mrs

Freezing

Midges

Rain

But I'm sure it is beautiful.

oh I want to go. Its cheaper for us to go yo eurodisney than a scottish island (we're self coast!).

Sue - I camped there and loved it!!! About 11 years ago.... I want to go back with my children.

And shetland... we have family there.... oh I want tI spend next summer island hopping. Work wont mind will they?

DH spent all his childhood hos there, we went together for the first time earlier this year and I loved it. Only had a few days but it was so peaceful. I can recommend the B&B next to the pub near the IONA ferry, great place to stay with fab breakfasts.

I'm sure it's beautiful. I, however refuse to go on any holiday anywhere in the UK for our main summer holiday, as does the rest of my family.
Too much risk of bad weather, the inevitable crap service in restaurants and overpricing of everything, because it's tourist season! Cornwall, I'm looking at you!)
I also love being in a completely unfamiliar place. It's only then that I really feel like I am on holiday.

Same celticlass. We in south west England if we drive same distance as to mull we would be in the dordogne! Absolutely no contest sorry

We had a week on Mull in August. The first day there we went to Iona for the day. We decided to walk to St Columba's bay and did not realise quite how boggy the walk would be. I slipped and dislocated my foot and broke my fibula! Had to be winched off the island by the Royal Navy! But I have to say that I could not have picked a more beautiful place to do it. I actually felt an unreal sense of calm and peace in the two and a half hours it took for help to arrive.My kids were all praying I would feel no pain and I just had a dull ache. I insisted my husband and kids remain on holiday to do their Sealife Tour etc and they even went back to Iona a few days later to see the other end of the Island. The Scottish Islands are unspeakably beautiful and the wildlife is amazing.We will go back when I am fully mobile again. All I would say is.....take proper walking boots !!!!!

You were very unlucky with the walk you picked vdb. You can walk on a road or flat, dry grass all the way to the Bay at the Back of the Ocean on the west side of the island or to the beaches in the north of the island. I do hope you are fully fit again soon.

We're in south coast England. I still want to go back to the Scottish Islands though! BUt yes v expensive/long distance from down here!!!

Lived on Iona for a while as a child. Idyllic. X

We went from Yorkshire and stopped off around loch lommond.

We stayed at the Isle of Mull cheese farm - it was amazing, and has an indoor pool.

We will definitely be going back again.

Shush don't tell them about the cheese farm!

We had a lovely week on Canna. It cost us £300 all in and the girls have never forgotten it.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but just thought I'd mention on the back of this thread I booked a week on Mull (I'm easily influenced!) and we go this Saturday. Hope the weather's good.

I specifically do not tell people about Mull or the Highlands as I don't want everyone to go.

If asked, I say it's horrid and advise them to go to Benidorm :-)

I read this thread last August when it started and I have booked a family holiday there this summer. Can't wait.
P.S. Mrs Maturin - where is that beach you walked to (think it was that pic that swung it for me!)