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?

When my DC were young, this would have sounded great. I do rather wonder at your use of capitals here:

"VERY predominantly British guests"

Just what is wrong with having British guests?

Sounds like some kind of hell

Well it sounds a bit shit to me.. but I wouldn’t book it.
I’m sure thousands of other people though book that sort of holiday and are absolutely delighted with it.

I wouldn’t choose it, but I’d probably enjoy (bits of) it. My husband would hate it.

Haha this is a bit disingenuous OP - you enjoying this holiday in the 80’s as a child is very different from going there now as an adult. I’d have loved this sort of holiday as a child, it sounds like Butlins X 50!

not my idea of a great holiday but we’re all different!

Nothing wrong with British guests - I loved this aspect of the holiday

just clarifying context

I don't consider myself a holiday snob at all, but I like complete peace and quiet in my hotel, and interesting places to explore. one of the nicest holidays we had was driving round southern Tunisia, and we ended up in a tiny 10 room boutique hotel just outside Zarzis where there was only one other couple staying for the time we were there. We had a lovely pool to ourselves most of the time, really picturesque buildings and gardens, fantastic food in the evenings, and nothing to do but sit and enjoy the surroundings, talk to each other, and play games. We explored in the car every morning and went back to the hotel after lunch. And we didn't see a single other British person for the whole time we were there. We've travelled quite extensively in Asia and the Middle East, but that holiday really was perfect - and one of the cheapest holidays we've had.

I don’t mind an AI, but it needs to be good! I’ve done one “beige food” one and never again. The better holiday food I’ve had that was the buffet type were at sport focused holidays - places that sell themselves as sailing or cycling holidays, tend to be better quality food, although often half/full board not AI and drinks aren’t included. (Which tends to mean you aren’t surrounded by people getting hammered every night)

Not my sort of thing. People living in the 1970s with humour to match aren't funny. Sorry not sorry. Avoid if you don't like the sound of it.

Assuming my children were still pre-teens or younger:

All inclusive hotel in Spain.

Fancy dress competitions for kids and kids club for general ents etc discos
Two pools - one indoor / one outdoor
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

Yes, fine. No huge objections to any of that, some of it might be quite welcome. Some AI resorts are great, although I probably wouldn't choose AI in Spain.

Sharing a dinner table with another guest couple at the hotel

Just one couple at a time? Absolutely not. What it they were awful? I don't mind a large communal table, that can be quite fun and interesting depending on the type of holiday, but from what you've said, in this place I'd rather sit with just my own family.

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

Nope. Not my bag at all. I don't mind some decent entertainment but I hate drag. And that fact they even have drag tells me a lot about the sort of place it will be and the other guests, so it's a no from me.

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

Yes, I do swym, Not my sort of thing, but each to their own.

No anything with predominantly British guests give me the ick

AI hotels aren't prisons...you are allowed out to explore.

Personally, total peace and quiet isn't particularly appealing....I don't need solitude to enjoy a holiday.

I get the feeling that when posters say they don't like the idea of holidaying with other Brits, what they really mean is working class people.

I love these kinds of holidays...I also love very relaxing quiet places with lovely food. But most people I know find it weird that I love it. I used to live in a very phoenix nights esque holiday resort every summer when I was younger.

Actually I'm gonna quote one of the Geordie friends I made at that resort who visited every year......"it's tacky as fock, but ah lorv it"

I felt the same ..even if my southern self couldn't express it so eloquently.

So, you get the "ick" whenever you holiday anywhere in the UK?

For one thing the climate would be a lot different

Donkey rides in the mountains were the Spanish thing about it !

Problem is op you are getting loads of people responding as if this is the sort of holiday you are asking whether they’d like now, not 40 years ago.

if I was a middle-class Mumsnetter then I'd probably prefer a villa in Corfu, perhaps with another known family in a neighbouring villa. ..

Yes that’s fine … I’m interested in the ‘now’ responses

I’d make the most of it and just do the things I like. Frequent the nice bar. Go out to nice restaurant some of the time. Go on the beach and go on excursions that interest you. I’d avoid the Butlins bits and just go and make my own fun

we’ve done the “no Brits” holidays a few times before dcs and they were lovely. Then we did one holiday in Turkey with kids, it was a fabulous hotel, really lovely location and peaceful, but there were no British children there. Our children struggled. They wanted to play with the other children who were staying, but they were German or Turkish and language barrier made it hard.

it’s a balance, I want other people as I know our children like other children to play with, but dh and I would happily not talk to anyone else on holiday and hate entertainment being put on.