I know this isn't AIBU, so I know i'm being naughty!
My mother is a full time carer for my disabled dad and he has now gone into respite care (FINALLY!!) for a few days. It's the first respite she's had in 2 years.
We need somewhere to stay from Tuesday to Friday (has to be those dates) that's somewhere reasonably located between Buckinghamshire (where we'll be on Monday night) allowing us to drive to this place on Tuesday without taking hours, and then for her to drive home to north Wales on Friday. So we're talking not Scotland or the Lakes etc, more likely south, Cotswolds/New Forest type thing, unless there is somewhere brilliant that I can't think of. We do not want a city, and we do want a swimming pool. It's proving impossible to find!
Ideally, we'd like a country house type place, with a pool, that isn't a 5 hour drive out of the way, that has availability those dates. So far, I've been looking on last minute.com, Booking.com and secret escapes, and have nothing. There was one possible in Portsmouth, but it has no parking. One possible in the Cotswolds, but the pool is only open if you book a spa treatment. One possible in Kettering (hm...) but it's in a retail park on a dual carriageway.
There must be SOMETHING! Money no object now, I do not care. Some of the sites are really hard as you have to specify a location, which isn't helping when I just don't know!
I know it's half term in a pandemic and last minute, but circumstances meant we didn't know until yesterday that we would definitely be able to get away, so we weren't able to book anything before.