Holiday clubs abroad ?

[hatter69]

Hello.

We are due to go to Spain this month with our 5 year old . There is a kids club there. I personally don't like the idea of leaving them with strangers in a foreign country. I personally think a family holiday should be just that!
Am I being completely over protective, paranoid and unreasonable ?

I would love to hear some of your experiences/opinions !

Where do you go @Pigpogtastic? Sounds good

My DS usually wants to check them out. When he was younger I would stay around, but if it’s a good one and he makes friends, we are forced to leave (he’s 9 now). He want to an amazing one last year, with loads of really fun activities. We had to negotiate his time - he would have happily spent 10-4 every day there but we wanted to also spend time with him!. And it wasn’t about time to ourselves - we had a very active toddler to still amuse!

We've just got back from hol and yes we put our 11month in the baby crèche and our 4year old in the kids club for a few hours a couple of times. Did I feel guilty....no way! They were both looking after impeccably and it gave me and DH some 'quality time' together where we weren't shouted for every 5seconds! My older one had so much fun she's asked to go back tomorrow. Lots of people here are judging but maybe some of us don't have babysitters on hand back home and at the end of the day isn't it better to have your kids looked after having a few hours fun (out of the sun) so you and DH can focus on the two of you?! It was just what I needed!

We went on holiday in April and put our three-year-old twins in kids’ club for a couple of hours in the afternoon. They loved it and still talk about it weeks later. We also have a five-month-old who would helpfully nap in the pushchair at the same time, so we had a bit of much-needed time for just the two of us. It was probably easier for us because we knew they would have each other for security, but as a family with three small children, my husband and I don’t get a lot of time to just sit around and talk and enjoy each other’s company.