To think south of France beach clubs have ruined DH

[TeddyBearCottage]

Now he’s acting like a spoilt baby
Saying he won’t go to a normal beach and sit on a towel on the sand and he will only go somewhere he has a sunbed, a proper one

so now I’m trying to find places with beach clubs that are reasonable for this summer

any ideas ? don’t want to go to south of France again

Are you camping in a tent or in a motor home? Is that why you need a beach club? @TeddyBearCottage I along with others on the thread don’t understand why you don’t just book a hotel with beach access. Then there is no extra to pay each day. I never liked lying on a beach towel even when I was young. I probably couldn’t get up from one now 😂.

Many, many public beaches have sunbeds all around the Med and Europe. You don't have to search out an overpriced, 'trendy' beach club to find them. My 50-something-year-old fat arse and saggy baps would cringe in these environments.

My recommendation, if it has to be about the beaches and a short flight, is the Balearics, particularly Mallorca. The small beach below has the most comfortable sunbeds I've ever come across - made from bamboo and with thick, padded cushions. There's a lovely bar and restaurant too.

But I don't know why I'm sharing this, I like to keep it under wraps!

https://www.calasanau.com/en/services/

Entire south coast of Spain is littered with them, pretty reasonably priced. I’m with your DH, I wouldn’t put a towel on uncomfortable hot sand either. I want sunbeds, a little table under the parasol, a little lockbox on the parasol for valuables and a nearby bar for tinto de veranos and ice creams. C’mon, surely a bare minimum!

Christ, I just go to beaches in Greece where for drinks you get beds for free or most about 8 euro a day. Am I missing something?

I’ve been looking for a holiday for myself, my husband who’s recovering from a stroke and our little 6-month-old daughter. This is exactly what I was looking for! Good food, good drinks and a Mediterranean sea breeze. Thanks so much for sharing ♥️

Cyprus - tons if bars and restaurants on the beach have sunbeds you can use freely as long as you're a customer.

😂😂
Can he feel a pea underneath his mattress?

Where in Greece? Curious to know where a drink gets you a bed for free for 8 euro.

Book a private villa and have your own patio and lounger, much beer as you want

If he doesn't like chemicals and germs how does he manage at the airport and on the plane?

Yep!

Well you don't have much choice how to get to places, you have to go via the airport but when you're there you can chose beach
or pool and That's actually something I do agree with him on, I prefer a nice sandy beach to pool also

Am a bit bemused - most beach resort hotels have loungers on the beach and more secluded poolside terraces, bars by the pool, nice loos and towels? Everywhere I’ve ever been in Italy, France, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.

Is this thread real?

That does look nice, but he might be a bit picky over the toilets

Tell him to book then.

I thought that was just called "a decent hotel".

I don't blame him. I won't go to a public beach and sit on a towel on the sand either. UK beaches are full of annoying anti-social oiks playing shit music out of their phones and foreign beaches are full of hawkers constantly trying to sell you stuff. And I hate sand.

I'd rather scrape by eyes out with a spoon.

I also enjoy researching and booking holidays OP, so also wouldn’t consider it a hardship.

And I am normally the first to say “let him do his own research”

I was in pefkas and it was about the same

Yes it sounds like a good quality (ie more expensive) AI would suit him

Yes I'd rather be doing this, than up on the garage roof, as he is as we speak

Just stay at a nice 5 star boutique hotel on the beach, then you aren’t lugging everything to a beach club stuck in traffic, parking etc.

Italy they have fab beaches.

Ok. Fair enough, but he needs to understand that chemicals are everywhere and are largely unavoidable.

Anywhere on the Med or the Adriatic.