Does anyone know any good family friendly places in thailand?

[joshandjamie]

My sister (2 kids aged 11 and 9) and mother and stepfather (in their 60s) live in New Zealand. I live in the UK with kids aged 7 and 5. My other sister lives in Ireland (kids aged 3 and 2 months). My father, stepmother and two half brothers live in SA (the half brothers are 20 and 18).

So.....we are trying to arrange a family holiday somewhere mutually convenient. Stop laughing now. I know. It's impossible.

But we thought maybe Thailand. Does anyone know of anywhere that is family friendly and not a complete ball ache to get to i.e. a million transfers. Or any other suggestions??? Would have to be in April as it's the only time of year that most of us have school hols.

Help!

I can totally recommend the Evason Hua Hin. I went there with DD, 6 last summer and its truly the best holiday we have ever had. People were lovely, the food was good and the hotel was beautiful!

You have everything you need at the hotel, people v friendly and DD went to tennis lessons after breakfast (free) and 1-2-1 swimming lessons every other day.

The downside is that Hua Hin town is about 20 minutes in a minibus (cost about £2 return I think) and Hua Hin is 3 hours south of Bangkok.

I enjoyed it so much that I wrote to their Head Office to ask if I could mystery shop their other hotels - I'm still waiting for them to get back to me

thanks - I will investigate. I like your mystery shopping idea. I might try it myself

Phuket. You can fly to Bangkok and then get another one hour flight to Phuket.
Avoid Chalong, I'd recommend Cape Panwa. There are a couple of hotels there.
Definitely don't go to Pattaya. I have seen no end of families looking horrified and confused by the bar girls with their goods on display.
Check when Songkran is too, it is hideously messy with water being thrown. Fun for an hour, trying for three or four days.

thanks for that info Kreecher - useful to know!

www.capepanwa.com/
I knew I could do it if I tried. We stayed there not long after the Tsunami. The whole Interpol were there (or seemed to be). I had to ask them not to pull out their photographs at breakfast time.