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?

As an adult or as a child?

Tbh it doesn't sound like my kind of thing, then or now. But you enjoyed it and that's what matters surely.

My advice would be don't waste your time worrying about what other people like. I can't bear the idea of a camping holiday. Id hate it. Other people love it. Doesn't make anyone better or worse.

We've done Torreblanca a few times and love that area.

Did Costa Brava and in a hotel dominated by Russians - great holiday but their inability to queue ruined dinner time!

OP where was this hotel? Actually sounds quite fun

I’d rather spend a week sleeping on the Euston flyover. It’s sounds horrific

So sorry OP but this is truly my idea of the worst nightmare ever. I'm so glad you enjoyed yourself but never in a million years would I dare to try it even though I partly wish it was my kind of thing.

The only two words I like in your post were 'beach' and 'dinner' otherwise, no, it sounds like something I'd avoid. I really hate holidays like that, but probably would have felt entertained by it as a child!

No, I wouldn’t enjoy that holiday at all. Other people might, though.

Because it would most likely be much cheaper and also pretty much guaranteed sun instead of wall to wall rain?

Not for me, but great that you enjoyed it - sod what anyone else thinks.

If you enjoyed it then great.

I wouldn't book it as I don't like drinking, swimming, beaches, heat, fancy dress or lots of people, especially 'Brits in a holiday camp' type people.

It is the complete opposite of the sort of holiday I used to go on before I had children. In fact it would have been my worse nightmare. But now I have children it is the type of holiday I tend to book as they love it, meet other children and are entertained. Once my children are grown, I will revert to more peaceful and cultured holidays!!

Not for a fortnight, but I could imagine coping with it for a girls weekend and having a right laugh. Like the 80s Bognor Butlins weekend we did but continental. I have UK friends who love to go to Benidorm and wear matching outfits. This would not be my top choice to be fair.

Sounds like my worst nightmare, but if it’s what someone wanted I wouldn’t judge. Everyone wants different things from a holiday :)

No.

Though thinking about some of the Eurocamp entertainment when dd was little....there weren't any fruit machines though.

My idea of hell

I went on one of those with one of my daughters and her family in the South of France. We had two house/caravan things and apart from it being a bit hot it was lovely,

My dad flew into joins us from Wales and when he turned up he was looking very dapper, very much like the man from Delmonte even down to his straw hat. We had such a laugh when one of the children said Daddo why are you dressed like that and he said - I thought I was coming to a Chateau

I see what you mean BUT I think one major difference between this and a holiday camp is that I get the impression that holiday camps are self contained, isolated and closed off from other places. Whereas in this hotel it was also bang in the middle of the busy resort of the town so you could just go out of the hotel and be close to other restaurants and hotels etc rather than cooped up in a camp

Nope nope nope. Kids are at university now and we never did an all-inclusive, esp one like this. Sounds hideous.

It wouldn't suit me and my family, but then our holidays probably wouldn't suit you.

Don’t mind AI if the hotel is right, but frankly none of my family would enjoy this. The kids, when younger, would have hated it as much as me, but I know we’re a bit odd and that lots of folk would love this so… each to their own.

Exactly this.

Palma Nova, Majorca

It’s a holiday people would take with young kids. Once kids are older than a cultural holiday might be more enjoyable ?