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’ve recently watched “Benidorm” for the first time. Very funny, but dear lord the absolute worst possible idea of “Holliday”

The Brits abroad thing is a good saying I think - people instantly know what it means

When I went to Palma, there was a nice couple in the queue behind me talking about how they were going to be hitting the all inclusive drinks as soon as they got there and asking me whether I'd be doing the same thing. I love free drinks, but I was quite insulted that they thought I would be doing that kind of holiday :)
I was staying in a small hotel in the city.

Joke was on me I suppose when I had to even pay separately for milk in my tea - first time in Spain.

Sounds like my holiday from hell but everyone has different needs on holiday.

I just don't do hotel-based holidays, and tend to stay in hotels/areas where the language and crowd is mostly local.

My kids would have loved it at a certain age, probably around age 6 to 11.
We did one a bit like that by accident in Tenerife. I had booked a relatively cheap hotel on B&B and was 😱 when we got to the hotel. However the kids thought it was heaven. We paid to switch to AI which I had never come across before and went with the flow.
After that we did a few more AI but significantly more upmarket.

No.

But I'm not going so it doesn't matter.

Sorry, sounds horrific to me.

But then we usually do Villa holidays so we don't have to deal with Other People. By the time there's me and dh, our 3 kids and partners, 8 is enough!!

I'd like being so close to the beach. I don't particularly mind all inclusive it isn't a deal breaker but the rest does not appeal to me at all. That's why it's good people have different tastes.

What's "snobbish" about not enjoying something?

This is just about everything I wouldn't enjoy in a holiday. I prefer self-catering accommodation, not because I want to cook but because I want to eat out, and I don't want to be tied to one place.

I don't want to be stuck in that same place with hoardes of strangers. I don't enjoy that kind of entertainment!

I like a holiday where there's places to explore, but somewhere I can also lie in the sun and read a book.

I wouldn't have used kids' entertainment when mine were little. They went with us wherever we did.

I want to mix with as many locals as we can - I'd hate somewhere that was full of Brits!

And I would hate to share a table with strangers!!!

I don't perceive that as "snobbish" - and if that's your thing, then knock yourselves out. I wouldn't spend my hard-earned income on a holiday full of things I don't like, would I??!

Used to work with a guy who had end-to-end holidays like this, and I used to wonder what the point was, because they could have been anywhere in the world and they didn't get to know anything about the places that they visited. Not my cup of tea.

Doesn't sound to bad my kids would have loved it. But then I'm not size French, drink more than a thimble of gin a year and I like going to Benidorm.

Oh no.

I wouldn’t bother going abroad for something I could have in center parcs or similar. But then I guess it’s like a caravan type holiday in the UK but with sun guarantee.

I would absolutely hate it.
But I am an unsociable bugger. I would choose a private cottage with an indoor pool and in the middle of nowhere it I could go on holiday.

I know a lot of people who would love something like that though and have a blast. My older son is someone who would really enjoy it.

It wouldn't do for us all to be the same.

Then it doesn't matter what anyone thinks. If you had the best time that's all that matters. It isn't my thing but everyone's different and it would be boring if we weren't!

Not for me. Especially if full with Brits. The last flight I had from Spain with brits they were more than disgusting screaming at each other, farting and getting drunk ... absolute misery.

I would hate a package holiday like this, especially with wall-to-wall Brits, but if that's what you enjoy, then fine, enjoy. Not really sure what the point of your post is.

With our two young kids (6), yes. Parenting makes just drinking by the pool all day extremely inviting. But not for an adult only holiday.

Sharing a table at dinner would be an absolute no however.

Wouldn't like the expectation to table share.

Otherwise, sounds fine? The evening entertainment is optional, and I don't have a problem with other British people. Assuming you like beaches the location is very convenient, and evidently there are options to get out and explore if that's what you want. All inclusive is a thing you either like or don't, but for many of us with kids it does make life a lot easier. Same with the kids club activities.

If it was cheap-ish and clean I’d stay and just bypass the “ entertainment”. Trips out, hire a car, walk, public transport.. Read by the pool, headphones on.

Why on earth do you want other people's opinions?

If you enjoyed it, great. Maybe you could go again sometime. Personally I'd rather eat my own feet, but I don't see how that affects your enjoyment of it.

There's bits of this that I'd love and bits that I'd hate. I'm more into mountain holidays than beach holidays but love the communal dinners / shared dinner tables in mountain huts for example. I've met some really interesting and fun people this way.

Most of that sounds dreadful.

I grew up going on these types of holidays. Some of my best childhood memories are being in all inclusive resorts in Benidorm, Ibiza and Canary Islands. Proper working class holidays. 3 star hotels, outrageous entertainment and my dad filling my suitcase up with cigarettes to bring back home cause Nothing to Declare would never search mine.

Never heard of sharing dining tables with other random guests though what’s all that about?

So funny reading all the snobby comments on here.

Sounds awful to me. I don't mind sharing a table as I like meeting people but I'd hate the rest of it.

It's not my cup of tea at all.