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All inclusive holidays in Europe for 2 adults plus 3 children

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FiveStar · 28/12/2011 19:48

Hi does anyone have any good tips for places to go within 2.5-ish hours flight time that are all inclusive, within Europe? We have looked through various all inclusive brochures and are finding a problem as most places seem to offer room combinations/ apartments for 2 children plus 2 adults, and we are 2 adults with 3 children under 7. We don't want to book 2 separate rooms. Ideally we would like some type of apartment/ family room arrangement where we (the parents) get our own room and the kids are in another separate room but inside the same apartment as us (so we don't have to worry about them getting up and wandering off into the hotel without us knowing...)

After no proper holiday for 5 years, I (mum) am really keen on all inclusive so I don't have to cook any meals during the holiday :)

Any tips welcome, many thanks

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amerryscot · 28/12/2011 21:10

Does it have to be in Europe. Consider Tunisia which offers very flexible accommodation with all-inclusive. It is 2.5 hours from London.

gregssausageroll · 28/12/2011 22:22

A bit further away but we are going to the holiday village in Tenerife in February. It isn't called holiday village in winter though so if you do look it is luaby hotel los gigantes. All their rooms are suites.

It is AI and has UK run kids clubs.

Tenerife is about 4 hours from the uk though.

Stylelostinlabour · 29/12/2011 09:11

We are having the same problem as most are coming it at 9K I mean really how much...

wigglesrock · 29/12/2011 21:16

Have you tried Ibiza? We have been there for the past few years, we now have 3 children. To be honest we just booked the hotel with the one bedroom, the 6, 3 year old and the baby slept in the bedroom and we slept on the pull down bed in the living bit.

I loved the AI and some pool side snacks were included which was great with a constantly hungry 3 year old Grin. Not to mention the "free" ice-creams dd1 kept mentioning Grin. We stay in Santa Eulalia - there is quite a few AIs there. We went last year for a week in late June, cost £1600.

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FiveStar · 31/12/2011 19:37

Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes we did look at a few in Ibiza, interesting to hear your comments on it. Yesterday we took the plunge and booked 2 wks in the Algarve at the Aquamarina/ Adriana as it had a really good price. Really looking forward to food on tap for 2 weeks on the AI and Mummy not having to prepare one meal...bliss :) as usually I am constantly in the kitchen at home

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PegPolkadot · 31/12/2011 19:42

Who was that with FiveStar? I have been looking too, DS3 is 2 now so the price of a foreign holiday has gone through the roof! The place we went last year is about 2k more now he is 2 Confused.

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FiveStar · 31/12/2011 20:24

hi it was with Thomas Cook, just hope they don't go bust before we go :(

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toomanyprojects · 02/01/2012 23:13

can recommend the El Greco Hotel in Portinatx, Ibiza - they have family rooms sleeping up to 6 but you need to book direct with the hotel marconfort.com
It's AI and there is a small water park next door included.

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