10 days villa - with four 10kg carry-on bags only??

[Tansie]

We are considering taking no hold-luggage with us at all this summer for our 10 day private villa holiday in Andalusia.

We are a family of 4 with 2 DSs, 13 and 15.

To me the issue is really the inability to take more then 100mls of fluid per bottle with us! I can imagine having to buy 'normal' size bottles of stuff in Spain that we use a third of before binning! And, of course, we'd have to be careful with some extra stuff like scissors etc.

I'm told 15kg of hold luggage would cost £20 each way but DH is as ever very keen to avoid mucking around at the carousel!

Anyone else done this?

If you're going with Ryanair, could you put the heavy tech in your 'additional handbag' and act like it isn't heavy when carrying it?!?

We have these rucksacks and I personally couldn't physically carry more than 10kg in them, so wouldn't want to even try to take that much iyswim. This wouldn't be an issue with pull-along suitcases, although the issue with them is that even super-light ones still weigh 1.5 - 2kg, which obviously takes away from the actual 'stuff' you can take. Quite considerably actually.

We never check luggage and always do carry-on, I always aim to take enough stuff for me to wear without having to wash (for me this would be five outfits for ten days) and certainly on a lazing-by-the-pool holiday this would probably be too much as you spend most of your time in a swimming costume anyway. I try to do the same with the dcs, but obviously they are more unpredictable and much more likely to spill stuff down themselves. our dcs are only little still (8 and 5), so their clothes are small still, but they are not yet capable of carrying any noticeable amount themselves either, so we always try to just have two bags between the four of us.

I will admit that when we go away we rarely have to take beach towels, but if we did I would take travel towels, rather than massive heavy fluffy ones - they are just something to lie on really, and if it's warm enough to swim, it's probably warm enough to air-dry anyway. And on a very hot holiday the heat is the only reason I go in the water - I want to cool off, not dry myself so I'm boiling again really quickly!