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?

My mother would love this kind of holiday but I would hate it!

Hell on a plate.

No bloody way! Sounds awful!

Sounds like it would be a right laugh if you enjoyed it for what it is! I went on plenty of holidays like that as a child and have very, very fond memories.

Other than sharing a table I think it sounds like a great holiday with kids! Mine always love a good kids club and lots of activities, plus entertainment keeping them busy means I can occasionally get out of the pool and relax

However they are also fidgety and talkative and I don't know if other guests would appreciate sharing a meal 😬

No. But I wouldn’t book it, so wouldn’t be an issue.
Wouldn’t mind the table sharing.

I probably bumped into you on one of my childhood holidays !

the shared tables at dinner was no doubt about fitting all the guests in the different dinner ‘sittings’

No offence intensed at all but I'd rather gouge my eys out with a spoon.

Worst of everything a holiday could have for me ( apart from the beach)

Snobby?
I didn’t go abroad until I was 18. I think your childhood holidays are snobby on that basis!
I just don’t like that kind of holiday.

Sounds like Butlins with warmer weather.

Definitely not my cup of tea!

I don’t like sitt8ng on a beach. Dull and uncomfortable.

Sounds like my idea of hell - but I love Disney world so I’m a firm believer in do what makes you happy.

It's my idea of hell. Sharing a dinner table with Brian Potter. No thanks.

I agree, I don't sit on a beach either, but open gardens to the space of beach/sea, beach walks, cocktails over looking the sunset, waves crashing as I fall to sleep….

I hope so OP 😃 we met so many amazing people on our “ghastly” holidays. Real salt of the Earth people. Amazing memories and anecdotes from 20 years ago our family still laugh about today. It’s what life is all about.

Some aspects of your holiday wouldn't suit us and we wouldn't enjoy it, but other bits would be perfectly fine. For example, we don't go AI ever, as we like to go to local cafes and restaurants. I don't think the entertainment is quite our cup of tea. But it makes sense to make the most of it: Spain is lovely, the other guests sound like they want to have fun, nothing wrong with folks enjoying themselves.

Different strokes for different folks, and it takes all sorts to make a world, yadda yadda.

Definitely!

It wouldn’t be for me but I can totally see why some people would enjoy a holiday like that. I probably could make the most of the holiday if I did have to go though.

See I’d love it !!! 🤣

But the ‘Brian Potter’ in my example was complaining that there was “no entertainment” in a broad Northern accent! And I loved this !

Christ no. It sounds awful. Each to their own though!

Nooooo! Hell is other people and all that…although I’m sure this is others dream holiday.

Ultimately when you have young kids you choose what is easiest / most enjoyable for them! (And affordable).

Would I choose the hotels / holidays I have since having kids? Probably not but I will have more freedom back someday!

With kids... yes. What I really want when I go on holiday with my kids is to sit in some sort of comfortable glorified airport lounge with a drink in hand and not have to move much while someone entertains them for me.

The other couple sharing our table probably wouldn't enjoy it very much unless they also had a couple of badly behaved little cretins in tow with partial hearing difficulties which mean that they can drown out a parent shouting "sit down, this is not a playground!" half a metre away but their ears prick up at the mention of ice cream on the other side of the room.

I definitely wouldn’t choose it myself but I would probably enjoy it and make the most of of it as would the kids but we’re an easygoing family.