To wonder which fictional boarding school you'd like to have attended?

[Clothrabbit]

For me, Malory Towers. I still love those books and always enjoy reading about the outdoor pool, Gwendoline's misdemeanours, and Mamzelle's eccentricities.

Chalet School the Tyrol year's!

Chalet school, no contest!

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The real Malory Towers: Lulworth Castle in Dorset

Definitely the Chalet School! Though higher than average chance of serious injury in an avalanche/flood/rockslide, it'll all be ok because a handsome local doctor will save me and then lurk not at all predatorially until I'm old enough to leave school and fall into his arms. Who needs a career?!

Hoggy warty Hogwarts

I’d like to go to Lowood but as a new head teacher so I could make sure the girls were fed, nurtured and loved.

I still have bad dreams about poor Helen Burns.

Chalet school. All that coffee and cake!
I love the Kingscote books but as others have said, they are just too realistic.
I suspect the cold baths at the Chalet school and the no nonsense attitude would send me scuttling off though. And I’m a bit working class so I don’t think I’d be the right kind of gal

Hogwarts

Got a feeling I'm a closet hermione 🙈

I would have gone to Mallory Towers.

I was also at a girls boarding school -as a day girl- in the 80s. There was considerably more alcohol and cigarettes...

The chalet school for me

DH says he would like to have gone to Start Trinian's the pervert

And, believe it or not, this is the real Chalet School - the location, not the actual building, though:
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The chalet school for me. Switzerland. So I could annoy Mary Lou.

I spent half of my childhood wishing I could go to Mallory Towers.

Another one for Whyteleaf! I would definitely have been the naughtiest girl.

Ooh or the school in What Katy Did At School - just because it sounds so much fun getting their giant Christmas boxes from home. I've never forgotten reading that for the first time and thinking it sounded amazing.

Trebizon definitely! Love those books. Always thought it was a shame she stopped after 5th year and didn’t carry on into 6th form.

Chaos I love Katy at School and the Christmas boxes too! With Debby’s jumbles!

Hogwarts!

I’d be brewing potions in the loos and enjoying the fact that my house is situated next to the kitchens. Amazing.

Ooh, love this thread! Definitely Malory Towers or St Claire’s for me, although I think Malory Towers probably wins. That swimming pool in the sea (although I would be absolutely terrified in real life!)

St Trinian's for me. Could be worth a fortune with all that training in how to make gin, owning my own distillery.

Hogwart's. Disclaimer: I think that's the only fictional boarding school I know of, besides Eastland from The Facts of Life.

I've not read any of the Enid Blyton ones but they all seemed a bit too jolly hockey sticks for me. I'd probably have chosen Hogwarts if the books were around when I was a kid but the lax health and safety rules make me a bit twitchy these days.
I did go to boarding school for a bit (rural Australia, not posh) and it was fine but nothing like any books I've read.

The Chalet School! Imagine - 2 weeks in San for opening the front door when it was cold. Also, I have actually caught pneumonia from falling in a lake, so I would fit right in. Robin should have come and sung me back to life.

Kylemore Abbey. But it turns out it's not fictional. It did exist and the building still does. MIL brought dd a book back from her holidays in Ireland set in this haunted castle/school in Ireland. It's like Mallory Towers in reality but with a spooky spin .

I'm not sure I would have survived boarding school at all though, no matter how amazing the setting.