holidays, do you go back to the same place year after year?

[notthecod]

do you like doing that - are you tied to a holiday home you own? or do you do somthing radicaly different each year?

We do both. One week's holiday is spent at our most favouritest bucket & spade place that we all love (usually Easter), and another week is spent somewhere new. I think it's nice for children to have those memories of a familiar childhood holiday place IYKWIM

we go back to majorca every year, its where we both used to work (pre kids) and where we met so its very special to us, plus to be honest, ive tried other destinations and have always found myself comparing them to majorca and prefer it there.
in the winter we go to center parcs, want to do florida though next year, ( but will still fit in a week to my beloved majorca!)

We do both, but our summer holidays are always spent at our house in rural AL. It's next to my parents's house (well, a short run through the woods) and my aunt has a house there also. I've been going to the mountain since I was a babe, so it's a very sentimental place, as well as being perfect for kids.

I've just booked our first ever repeat holiday that's not the above! We went last year and it was so fab I couldn't justify not going again this year. It's in Lermoos, Austria and is a Kinderhotel.

We only have one holiday a year and we go to London every year to visit family. One year we broke the mold(sp?) and went to Canada it was fantastic but we can't afford to do trips like that often. So we go to London and get free accommodation
Might be going to France next year though to visit friends.
when I was a child we would go to Blackpool every year. there was my mum, me, my brother and our granny and grandad. I have no inclination to take my dd's there. Not that there is anything wrong with Blackpool, don't want to offend anyone who lives there, but it was the same things every year, my brother would spend a fortune playing in the games arcades, we'd spend a fortune winning cuddly toys from those grabbing machines then have to buy an extra bag to bring them home in and then threw half of them out because they were rubbish. And it always rained and was freezing cold for one week of the holiday. I'm not a great fan of the seaside.
I do have some wonderful memories of us all going there though which as precious to me now that my mum and my grandad have passed away.

We don't do holidays every year due to being skint, but since having kids we've been to Tenby twice (with my parents and they paid, heh heh) and will probably go again next year.

I know it sounds really boring but I just don't feel adventurous with 2 small children in tow - like to know where the good beaches are, which restaurants are child-friendly, where's good to go when its wet, where nappy change places are etc.

We'll probably go somewhere a bit more exotic when they're a bit bigger but for now I prefer familiarity, and its certainly not breeding contempt!

Having said that, I was very adventurous last week and took the 2 children for a couple of days in Scarborough without dp. Went with a friend and her 2 kids (so 2 dimwitted adults and 4 under 4!), and we had a cracking time. Sat on North Beach in thick but sweltering fog, which was weird.

Blimey, enid, have you persuaded m+d to have the kids???..... never did get our child free ski hol this yr and looks like there wont much chance of another one for quite some time!

Blu-was that the farm owned by the Tuckers? They own the campsite at Putsborough.... now run by the son I think. We had to camp on the farm the first year as couldnt get on the cliff top. They had repeat yearly bookings that filled it, and had a waiting list in our day!!