We'd love to go to the mountains next year - somewhere not too hot in August, so not Spain or Italy, but Germany, Austria, Switzerland (too expensive?), France, somewhere like that.
The set-up that works best for us is self-catering sharing a garden and swimming pool with other families. That way the kids make friends naturally and go off and play with them, leaving us free to laze around... We also need two toilets (don't ask) although just a downstairs bog type thing is fine.
But my extensive searching on ownersdirect, gites de France and chez nous is not turning up much of this kind of thing. I can find a few apartments in the same chalet, but they don't seem to have gardens that would facilitate kids playing together. We don't want actual kids clubs (although I suppose that's a possibility, if it wasn't too expensive and DS1 could be persuaded) just a set up that makes it easy for kids who don't already know one another to play together.
Does anyone know anywhere like this? I was wondering about self-catering apartments within a hotel or chalets on a campsite, but the trouble is that those mostly only have one toilet per unit, which really doesn't work well for us. But ideally it would be a small complex of self-catering villas or apartments.
Any suggestions gratefully received. Thank you!