Help! Last minute August holiday ideas

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For various reasons we still haven't booked a holiday and I'm starting to panic. We need to go in the first week in August and would like either AI or apartment and flight deal. I've looked at online travel supermarkets, like Lastminute.com, TravelRepubic etc, but don't fancy the Canaries, Balearics- type offers that come up - they seem aimed mostly at families with young kids. Not too fussed where we go, but not the above or big holiday complex type places. We'd like to be near sea/lake and interesting places to visit. Budget up to £2000 for 3 adults. Any ideas/good websites would be most appreciated. Thanks!

TravelRepublic not pubic!

Snap! We cant pre book because my dh has cancer, he is now in remission :) So we are desp for a holiday and have looked and looked. Spent ages in the travel agents this morning and they couldnt find anything either! Just, like you want a holiday for 5 of us! Good luck.

We HAVE booked with a LastMinute type web thing we found, but spent time on Trip Advisor checking the hotels out. We went for reviews from Groups, and basically if the hotel got appalling reviews from Stag/Hen parties we investigated further!

We THINK we've found a decent clean quiet self-catering in Lanzarote, dissed by the 18-30's for being half hour walk from The Strip and because hotel owner threatened to throw them out when they came home at 4 a.m. with two girls who had not originally been with their party... Hope it's ok, we've booked now

Can you use skyscanner or the moneysavingexpert flight planner to find cheap flights and then look for houses/cottages in that area? Use ownersdirect, homeaway or holidaylettings

I'm going to do some serious holiday searching his weekend. You're right DameDeep, there ARE deals out there. I just need to find one and get DH to agree (that's another issue in itself!) Good luck triplets!

Where flying from?

Have a look at icelolly.com. Lots of deals on there.

just book a villa? and some flights? try simpson travel

Some suggestions:
Slovenia fly Easyjet to Lubjiana then go to Lake Bled

Hungary. Again, Easyjet to Budapest then take the train to Lake Ballaton. One side if the lake is a bit chavtastic, but the other is civilised with good day trips. Try Tihany or the nearest town

Croatia. Split is fantastic with day trips to islands and day trips inland to forests and waterfalls. Pula is also nice. You can do a day trip from there to Venice on a hovercraft but you may have to travel by the evil Ryanair

icelolly.com looks promising, lots of good looking deals on there. Thanks Crutchlow. And slug, Croatia would be my top choice. I'm sure it would suit us down to the ground, but DH inexplicably won't even consider it. Aargh!

Lake Como or Garda? The Cinque Terre area on the Italian coast is stunning. Very nice food.

Sicily?

Sicily and Lake Como also great suggestions Portofino. We've been to Lake Garda several times - love it! DH however is now leaning towards renting somewhere in Devon or Cornwall through OwnersDirect, which would be fine too. I think I may have to leave dreams of foreign travel till next year

Agree with Lake Bled or Split. Good value.