Family Holiday

[MrAmIDone]

With regret my husband has become newly disabled, his condition and level of pain means he cannot tolerate the confines of a 4 - 5 hour drive for our usual UK family summer holiday.
Do to the mechanics of overseas travel ie movement and sitting; airport, security, lounge, airplane, transfers etc he envisages if a short flight say 2 - 3 hours tops he could manage that journey better.
I'm looking at prices right now Croatia 2.5 hours, Canary Islands 3 hours.
In our family group there are 3 adults and 2 children.
The prices I am seeing so far are so out of reach, £1000+ per person.
The New Year is the ideal holiday shop time but at that stage my husband nor I had any clue where his health would be.
Can you offer any advice on how a family of five can do a short haul on a budget?
My poor husband is desperate for continuous hot sunshine to ease his pain, I want to help him if I can.

Are you flexible on dates or does it have to be school holidays??

School holidays yep

Maybe something like this- you been to ideally book an apartment or villa or an aparthotel- plus separate flights. Flights in school holidays are extortionate but even then you should get it down to about £3k - booking it separately will probably work out more affordable - use booking.com

https://www.booking.com/hotel/es/bugambilla-muro.en-gb.html?aid=304142&label=gen173nr-1FCAEoggI46AdIM1gEaFCIAQKYAQm4ARjIAQ3YAQHoAQH4AQuIAgGoAgS4AuFxKIGwAIB0gIkMDU4NDNiNDItNjA2OS00NTIxLTkzZjAtNDUzYjBkYmViNTVj2AIG4AIB&sid=aa098130db463ef5e0111e2a9732d16d&age=12;alllsrblocks=98015430223705046160000;checkin=2023-08-19;checkout=2023-08-26;desttid=-369919;desttype=city;dist=0;grouppadults=4;groupchildren=1;hapos=42;highlighteddblocks=98015430237050461660000;hpos=12;matchingblockkid=98015430237050461660000;nflt=price%3DGBP-min-370-1;norooms=1;reqqadults=4;reqage=12;reqqchildren=1;room1=A%2CA%2CA%2CA%2C12;sbpriceetype=total;srorder=upsorttbh;srpriiblocks=98015430237050461660000__175000;srepoch=1683039260;srpvid=b32a68cc665300e6;type=total;ucfs=1&

I did it for 19th Aug to 26th aug as an example

Remember a 2.5 hours flight means hours at the airport, travel to the airport, transfer the other end etc, more than 5 hours in a car. The canaries are over 4 hours by plane. Italy is 2.5 as is Spain (mainland/Balearics).

I can see all inclusive at around the £750 mark, that's 3 sharing one room, 2 the other

The thing is you can easily be sat on a plane for 30+ minutes on the runaway before & after the flight & be circling for ages waiting to land, so it’s unlikely to just be 2/3 hours.