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?

I was literally on another post describing my worse holiday ever and this was it😊

H.E.L.L.

Wouldn't be my cup of tea but each to their own - you have to make your own choice.

Not my cup of tea but I have friends who would love this. Each to their own.

It sounds like my honeymoon. Which was hellish btw. We spent loads of money on excursions just so we weren't at the hotel.

Mine always loved eating out when they were small

I think you have some weird ideas about ‘villa holidays’. They’re not resort holidays without the resort. The accommodation is often just where you sleep, and if you’ve been out doing things all day, it’s often just a matter of kicking back in a pool or whatever and/or making a big, leisurely dinner, if you’re not eating out. The last two times we’ve rented a gîte in different parts of France with friends and our collective children, we often wouldn’t get home till nine or ten at night, after which the kids would have a night swim.

So if it goes with a group of friends and their children, then obviously your DC have ready made holiday mates to hang round with.

Those who don't have available friends with children to rent a villa with, may choose to go to an ai resort where there will be entertainment for their DC and other guests with DC to make friends with. Why is this seen as scummy in comparison by so many?

Hell x 2

No, our friends’ children are all far older than DS. They get on well, but aren’t playmates. It’s never so much as occurred to me to go to a resort in order for DS to ‘make friends’.

Sounds like "Benidorm". Definitely not my thing at all!

Not make friends necessarily but have things to do. Like I said, I don't have a big group of readily available friends to hire a villa with...so if I did go to one it would be me, DH and the DC...once we've had dinner, I imagine it's like sitting at home in the evening just in a nicer climate. Horses for courses, but I don't see why choosing a place with games for kids, a pool table etc is seen as so low brow.

That sounds like my idea of HELL, there is not anything that would incentivise us to endure that kind of 'holiday'. That said, I totally get that it is just exactly what some people want and like, and good for them-we are all different.
TBH that ghastly family in the 'on the beach' advert, and the even more ghastly one in the 'booking.com ad have been a very useful signpost about where NOT to go to book a holiday break🤣. And I certainly wouldn't pay to use an airport 'executive' lounge if I thought it would be populated with folk like them. I bet that particular freebie for booking.com customers has cut airport exec lounge traffic in half!!
Vive la difference though....

Sounds like my holiday from hell. Give me a villa with a private pool and a local shop and I’ll be happy!

Same here. Absolute heaven!

It’s hardly comparable, though, unless your home life regularly involves hiking, sightseeing, exploring unfamiliar places, canoeing, going to themeparks etc all day. If you’ve been doing all that, and in a hot climate, till late in the evening, kids are often really happy to just kick around the pool at night. We had a few good games of hide and seek by night with torches in the vineyards around a place we were staying in in Italy last year. Maybe if you’ve been more static all day evening entertainment is more necessary?

God no.

I mean this is a typical middle class sneering attitude....heaven forbid someone just wants to relax on their one holiday of the year...no, we must constantly show how high achieving and industrious we are.

So, torches in vineyards is now considered
“middle class”, is it???!!!

Sorry, I hope you can tell by the tone of my response that this comment is lighthearted

I’d pay to not go on that holiday.

What a bizarre reply. I’m the child of a binman and a cleaner, so not middle-class in the slightest. You’re the person asking what children do in the evenings on non-resort holidays, and wasn’t it just like ‘sitting around at home after dinner in slightly nicer surroundings’. I was replying to say that if you’ve spent the day doing lots of activities, children are often exhausted at night, so don’t need entertaining. Some places are conducive to other stuff at night, too. Like hide and seek in that house in Italy. Which was a lovely, relaxing holiday. For us, though possibly not for you.

I wouldn't have said the average kids club at this kind of resort involved being static!

Well I have no idea, I’ve never had sny experience of one! It was @Comedycook who asked what children did in the evenings when staying in a villa, which suggested surplus energy to me.

I think most children unless they're toddlers, particularly tweens or teens will be able to play a game of pool or air hockey after dinner.

The idea that we have to walk miles to exhaust ourselves so we fall asleep immediately after dinner sounds utterly miserable to me.

Yes, I wouldn't think a child who wants some activity and entertainment in the evening has a surplus of energy. Seems well within the range of normal behaviour, especially beyond the tot years.

Parents may of course find this inconvenient and try to organise their time to prevent it from happening, which is their prerogative.