To ask if you’d enjoy this holiday ?

[CryJustALittleBit]

All inclusive hotel in Spain.

Fancy dress competitions for kids and kids club for general ents etc discos

Some of the male hotel guests putting on drag acts as evening entertainment

Two pools - one indoor / one outdoor

Sharing a dinner table with another guest couple at the hotel

Space invader machines /Pac Man etc

Pool table

VERY predominantly British guests

Hotel is right next to a beach

Plenty of cafes and bowling alleys near by for entertainment

Nice ‘bar’ area where you can also get drinks like milk shakes etc

Courier service so you have the option to go on day trips etc

Hotel guests in general are a bit ‘Phoenix Nights’ iyswim

So, what’s the verdict ?? Y Viva Espana?

Nope. Especially the dinner table sharing!

Not our usual kind of holiday, but I’m sure it would be fun for a week.

I wouldn’t go on that holiday if you paid me

Yeah snobby. Such as:

that sounds shit

sounds like a holiday camp!

Sounds utterly ghastly

we don't do AI/package hols etc

Grim

Obvs not, is this a joke post

I like a classy city break

Hideous beyond

It’s sounds horrific

That’s not for me.

Sounds awful.

Why is is snobby not to like all that? That's like when i was in school and told I was a swot because I liked reading.

We've done AI with the kids when they were little. Hotel entertained doesn't do it for me, just like Saturday night TV doesn't. Other people like that stuff and that's fine.

Fwiw, dd would love it. Ds would hate it. As would dh, probably. I'd prefer not to.

I’d take the bits I enjoyed (beach, pool, AI for breakfast and drinks) leave the entertainment (although loved a good mini disco when the dc were small) and head out into the local town most evenings.

Sounds like my kids would love it, and if the kids are happy on a holiday then that is most of the battle won.

Not sure about sharing a dinner table with randoms, everything else could be from anywhere from fine to great fun.

Very interesting you as this

maybe I should do a ‘guess the year’ competition as part of the evening entertainment

it was … drumroll ……..1985

Sounds great to me - all inclusive, near the beach, love a bit of Space Invaders too 😁
Only thing I wouldn't really like is the sharing of dinner table with strangers!

Even in the 80s that was tacky,

We’re you a child then or an adult

I'd like it all except sharing a table at dinner with strangers.

But I love an all inclusive holiday. I don't get the snobbery.

Sounds like there's plenty to do for the kids... swimming pool, beach...what's wrong with that?

Fair enough .. a load of money was won o the fruit machines by 2 kids … they went out and came back draped in Lacoste! Could we get any more mid 80s ?

I’ll wait …. 🤣

I’d hate it.

Child

What's wrong with saying you don't want to do AI? I don't want to be tied to the same place all the time - I want to try new places!

Absolutely nothing! Everyone has preferences. Nothing wrong with AI generally not being your preffered option.

It's the 'I'd rather go to prison', 'I would never do AI even if you paid me', 'sounds horrific, i'd rather stay home and sit in the rain' type comments that are hilarious.

I imagine these comments are from that same strange breed of people who huff and puff to drag a sofa away from a wall in a cottage, take pictures of the dust on the skirting behind where the sofa was then complain about it on TripAdvisor 😂 Always have to moan about something, incapable of making the best of an experience.

Oh well, that paints a different picture, I could see why many kids/young teenagers might like it, adults maybe not so much

That’s everything I would want to avoid on a holiday but I appreciate we are all different. I have family who live in Spain and it’s very understandable why it’s so popular with British people as it has something for everyone.

No. I don't do AI. No doubt people wll say I am a snob.

So what do all the holiday snobs want to do on a holiday?

If I won a free holiday I’d go, but absolutely not spend my own money on that!

I don't like the sound of that particular holiday, no.
We've only done an AI beach holiday once, to Cuba in the early 2000s and it was quite different. It was to a very good, Spanish-owned hotel with lots of different nationalities and not many Brits at all, even though it was a BA holiday.
The guests seemed to be mostly Canadian, French or Spanish and there was very little evening 'entertainment' that I recall. A salsa exhibition one evening, I think. (Which was great.)
We did meet some English people from another hotel on a tour of Havana who complained vociferously about the food and said the lunch provided that day was the best they'd had. For us, it was the worst by far! The food at our hotel was really good, quite an anomaly for Cuba at that time, it seems.
We put it down to the fact it was Spanish run, quite laid back, and for mostly Spanish tastes. It was also adults only but DC who was 17 at the time, was allowed to come.

It does sound like a British holiday camp holiday but with sunshine, and better accommodation than a caravan. Many people love those and many kids do too, assume those who do would love it.

Personally no, wouldn’t be for me.

also can’t see my dcs enjoying it and it would be hell on earth for dh.

But different people like different things. As you went as a child OP, you may well hate it from the adult perspective.