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holiday ideas/weekends away with a four year old in the UK
Lucysnap · 14/04/2021 22:37
Having moved back to the UK pre-Covid, we've never actually been on holiday in the UK with a kid. Currently based in London and ideally would go somewhere nearby as DS gets really train sick (and really really car sick so a short taxi ride is fine but cant really hire a car). Would anyone have any ideas where we could go for a couple of days now that things are opening up. DD is currently 3. We've done most of the city breaks pre-kids and ordinarily used to just go back home and visit grandparents but with things as they are it would be lovely to leave the city for a few days but no idea where is nice to go with a small kid.
Am I being unreasonable?
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Meatshake · 14/04/2021 23:42
Butlins, I was really snobby and sniffy but it's actually brilliant as long as you get the good accommodation, Wave Hotel Apartment or better haha. I probably wouldn't go on the normal weeks but the just for tots weeks are absolutely lovely, and it knocks spots off centerparcs.
Lucysnap · 15/04/2021 00:08
@Elouera so on the train we're usually ok for an hour/hour and a half but in the car - honestly about 15mins. It's ridiculous and for longer trips, we do tend to give him travel pills which essentially knock him out for the day but that's not always ideal.
No idea why am feeling so nervous going on holiday with DS but essentially we just haven't really been anywhere other than travelling back home with him since he was born and then obviously Covid
Elouera · 15/04/2021 14:32
If you are East London based, and looking for the seaside, Margate and the North Kent coast, along with Essex- Clacton, Walton, Southend are all within 1.5hrs via train. All areas have either hotels or static van sites, along with piers, rides and entertainment.
cudbywestrangers · 16/04/2021 15:12
We hired a cottage in watchet (Somerset) a few weeks ago. The local steam railway did a weekly ticket so we walked to the station each morning and used the railway to get out each day, travelling to all the different stations- minehead, dunster castle etc. That worked well and we hardly used the car all week and it was A lovely gentle paced week
RulesDontApply2Me · 16/04/2021 19:32
Go to Kent.
You’ve got the Downs, Whitstable, Hernebay, The Villages of Margate, Margate, Broadstairs, Folkestone, Camber Sands. Best county in the UK lol. Well for Londoners anyway.
I’d go Broadstairs on a sunny warm day. You will love it.
And I don’t live there btw. But I would if I could.
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