To only take one child at a time on holiday?

[Lonelee]

Okay please hear me out.
We are a family of 5 and have had a lot of financial difficulties. We have only recently (last 4 years been able to take family holidays here in the uk. We usually rent out a nice cottage in the countryside and we've had some lovely times together.

Now that the kids are in their teens, they want to explore the world and go abroad. They like exploring, sight seeing etc so a resort hol isn't something they'd like. I've had a look at some flights and accommodation prices for Istanbul / Marrakech as thought those destinations would be reasonably cheap ( correct me if I'm wrong!) and it comes to £4000 for accomodation and flights. No idea how much food and excursions would cost but thinking it might be an extra £2k.

£6k is just too much for us. And would take years to save up for.

Then I thought that what if I took just one child for a long weekend somewhere in Europe. It would be around £600 for both us and then the following year I could take another child. We'd still do the yearly UK holidays as a family but this way each child gets to go abroad too.

YABU - stupid idea and unfair on the other kids
YANBU - sounds great

You wouldn’t need 10 days for Marrakesh, just as a note to bring the price down.

Try looking at Ryanair and EasyJet have a sale on now, Expedia do pretty good city breaks actually. In places like Istanbul and Marrakesh booking direct is probably cheaper for the accommodation than via booking.com.

Also look at Skyscanner which basically searches the cheapest flights. Interrail also has a great lot of resources so you can connect cities via train (may be cheaper doing a trip with multi cities with a few of the kids at once). I did Budapest, Slovenia and Croatia with my son last summer and it was about £700 for a week all in with flights, trains and accommodation, food and spends for two of it.

@Lonelee as far as possible to make the monthly payments affordable.