Naice summer beach holiday recommendations for August

[JandLandG]

Hello there

My other half is determined to find us a sunny summer beach holiday somewhere in Europe this summer and am looking for some help please.

It's not normally our thing - we usually might do chambre d'hôte in SW France or hire a villa with friends - but we know enough I think, so we can probably safely manage to avoid Magaluff. Ha!

Children are 12/9/7 and will like a resort and hotel with pool type of set up but it would be nice to have a bit of added value in terms of extra pleasantness within reach.

Friends recently went to Turkey (Cirali) and had self catering chalet type things which sounded nice (naice!) and there were lovely ruins nearby and they swam with turtles etc.

That sounds terrific but is super pricey booking for late August.

So any other thoughts/ideas/suggestions please?

I'd love to snorkel with turtles of go to a secret cove on a boat and dive into turquoise waters if poss.

Anything else wonderful would be a bonus.

So any thoughts? We'd be really grateful. Budget? About £2k ish for a week for the five of us, I reckon.

Ok, I'll leave it with you but many thanks in advance.

is that 2k for just accommodation or including food, travel etc. Flights now are £££, would you drive ?

Well, maybe a bit more...I think we may look into cheapish flights to Croatia and drive and hire car separately...I thought a dirt cheap package would be better/cheaper but no....

So will stick to what we used to do and sort ourselves out...good advice on mn on a parallel thread

Thanks for the post though.

We just came back from Portugal. Next time we are going to price up the villas as the Salgados beach complex. I think they were either Vida Mar or CS Hotels.

Monarch have got a sale on with holidays in august included so you might find something on there.

We stayed as a CS hotel in portugal booked through Easy Jet Holidays last August. Was great and very cheap for 5 of us. Might be worth a look.

Other option might be looking at a mobile home type holiday in Biarritz area of France. Would be warm and there are some great campsites with places on the beach that will have availability for mid/late August for 5

Thanks for these, everyone...apologies for tardy reply, not been round lately. Much appreciated.

Why not google last minutes and see what comes up?

I, ve done that (not in UK tho) and found some brilliant deals.