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?

Sounds like hell on earth.

This is the antithesis of a holiday for me.
Too many people in a shared space, enforced jollity, bars & drunk Brits. I'm sure the location and convenience is great, but its not for me.

In fairness, @Comedycook, everything you’ve ever said about your life on here that I recall sounds deeply joyless, so I think we’re just very different people. Who, unsurprisingly, like very different holidays.

@QuimCarrey, as I’ve said, I have never been on a resort holiday with children’s clubs, so I have no idea what children would typically do during the day or at night, or what a typical level of activity would be. We tend to be out of the house all day, so evenings everyone would be in the pool, or playing ping pong, or whatever’s available in or near the house.

I would absolutely hate that holiday so much. One of the pleasures of getting divorced was knowing I never again would have to suffer it.

And yes, I absolutely wallow in the worst MN snobbery and superiority that my ex- would spend his own hard earned money to be in such a place.

Yes, you mentioned never having been on one before. That's why the static comment was strange.

This is an interesting question. My first thoughts are that I find it hard to imagine anything I would hate more than this. I think I would probably seal myself into my room and not come out until it was time to go home. HOWEVER, I say this with no experience of such a holiday. Sometimes we need to leave our comfort zone and I imagine with this type of trip the best thing would be to just join in, go with the flow and lose yourself in it.
I still would never choose to take a holiday like this but maybe , just maybe once in a while I should take my holidays less seriously and let my hair down.

@QuimCarrey, several peoole are referenced ‘relaxing’ around pools or on the beach at resorts, and @Comedycook has said, presumably in reference to my holidays, that the idea of ‘walking miles to exhaust ourselves’ depressed her. My reference to ‘static’ is because, as I’ve said, not having been on that kind of holiday, I don’t know how active people typically are during the day, whether children or adults. @Comedycook said something about it just sounding like you’re sitting around in a villa just like at home, hence me saying not unless your daily life at home involves a lot of sightseeing and outdoor activity.

I mean, I can’t debate it any more. I have never been on a resort holiday because it wouldn’t suit me. What children do in the evenings on our holidays has never been an issue, as that’s the part of the day that is usually in the pool, relaxing, barbecuing etc.

I can understand that different people like different things

What I find perplexing is why a pool table, kids disco and breakfast buffet is seen as down-market? Whereas buying food in the local supermarket and hiking is seen as so much more middle-class and worthy. It makes no sense to me.

AI holidays aren't even cheap so it can't be that...a week for a family of four in the school holidays won't leave you much change out of £5k.

What you do on your own holidays is your business, of course. I've no debate there. You do you.

But again though, you not knowing any of this is why it was bemusing that you made the suggestion you did about 'static'. It's not a debate, it was just a strange thing to say, when you know you don't know. Particularly when you then talked about 'surplus energy' once it was pointed out to you that kids clubs are not usually very static. It's not going to get less odd with repetition.

Not my sort of holiday but I am sure it appeals to some people.

I wouldn’t choose to pay a lot for it but all sounds ok apart from sharing a table, as you don’t have to partake in entertainment

I don't think it's that mysterious -- if you spend all day lying around a pool or on a beach, maybe you spend your evenings on holiday differently to someone who spends the days climbing mountains or in museums? Maybe the evening is the lively time on a resort holiday, rather than the chillout time?

My personal idea of hell but who cares - you enjoyed it. No one's idea of a good holiday is objectively better than anyone else's.

My kids would have loved it when they were young but not for me, esp now.

Reminds me of our transfer bus in Tenerife. A woman shouted across the bus to her DH “would you tell your fucking face you’re on your holidays” … 😳🤣.

I was so glad she didn’t get off at our hotel 🤣, although it would have been entertaining people watching.

Not for me personally, but to each their own. I like holidays where I can explore more, in Spain I've loved Madrid and Barcelona but I wouldn't go to be exclusively with other Brits in a fairly Brit-friendly place, I'd like to be exploring Spanish culture and speaking the language. In this country, for things to do with the kids, we like Center Parcs

It's my absolute idea of hell but some people love all that!

There are several lounges at airports did you not realise that?

To be fair, it was 1985 when I went, and I don’t remember seeing drunk Brits even though I stayed here for a week.

i think 1985 though was before drinking culture took hold - I mean Ibiza wasn’t even a party resort then I don’t think! There was no lad/ladette then as such - getting ‘hammered’ didn’t seem fashionable in 1985.

of course I maybe wrong in this, and welcome others’ opinions!

@CryJustALittleBit it's great to have had that one, magnificent, blow out fun holiday that you remember for ever

I was 17 in 1985 and getting hammered was very fashionable!

I didn't go abroad though, a caravan in Selsey Bill was our first holiday with friends ... still remember the Embassy Club and the sleazy fellas.

😂😂😂😂

There are some airports which are smaller & don't have multiple lounges, did you not realise that??🤣

Well 1968 was the best year for music imo and you 1968-borns are a hard act to follow 🤣

(but that could be the subject of an entirely different thread….)

Thanks for putting me straight on the drinking thing though .. just didn’t think ‘binge drinking culture’ was much of a thing in 1985 - not to the extent it became a few years later ..

@CryJustALittleBit Have I got this right, you are talking about a holiday you took 40 years ago? Maybe even I would have enjoyed it 40 years ago, when I was 13. Not sure my parents would have though!

Yes that’s right - 40 years ago !