Only children

[Cassini]

What does everyone else do with only children on holiday? We are reaching the age where mum and dad aren't enough and out DC needs the company of other children.
Please let me know where you go and what you do!
Thanks
Cassini

Try a French/Italian camp site, loads of kids from all over Europe. My youngest loved it (her sister is autistic so not the most fun on holiday)

Thanks okie

All inclusive with a kids club. My DS wasn't a great one for joining in but it was good to have the option if needed.

skiing. Kids in ski school by age/ability so not with their siblings so have to make friends with each other.

A place with a shared pool!

DD has never been bothered about making friends on holiday tbh. Not when small and she's now 17y so definitely not bothered. She's been happy to see people in a pool occasionally and join in a game or two, or just play with dh or me, do her own thing, etc. We've always tended to have holidays where we are out and about a lot, so busy most of the time. We've not really done big hotel resorts with kids clubs, etc.

Anywhere with other children basically!

DD has made friends on the beach, camp site play park, round the pool, in the apartment above our air bnb.

Take another one with us! When DS goes with us on holiday we take his best mate, when he goes away on holiday with his Dad then his cousin generally goes too. Weekends away it's put up with us and shut up!

Thanks everyone! These are some good ideas, I especially hadn't considered skiing

Anywhere with others the same age. We find cruises work well as there are lots of children their age and as a teenager they can go off on their own and do whatever they want on sea days with their new friends.

Skiing us great for making friends
Camping at a family site
Nielson holidays have brilliant kids clubs

When ours were younger we went to First Choice Holiday Villages which have kids clubs for an hour each time or so then to TUI Splashworld once youngest 5 which have kids clubs and waterparks on site.

Also been to a Kinderhotel in Austria and they have lots of kids activities.

borrow a friend's child and take them with your family.

if older, friend of your child comes on holiday with you.

Farm stay with self catering flat

AI with a Kids Club

I wouldn’t take another child with me for a main holiday

All inclusives with a good kids club definitely - but make sure to check reviews to find the best ones, they'll be the ones with the entertainers names mentioned in every other review

Thank you for the tip Little, I will also look at Neilsen and the Kinderhotels

Reluctant I think I agree with you I am not sure I would relax with the responsibility of someone else's child

The only time I took someone else’s child (my nephew) as company for my eldest DD (who was then an only child and I was a single Mum), it was absolutely horrendous and they fell out all the time! DN mutated into a little horror, smashing glasses, refusing to eat anything and trying to mock drown DD!

If your kids like organised entertainment and kids clubs (mine didn’t, too much like the holiday play schemes they were in the rest of the summer) AI might be the way to go. Mine always made pool friends, really not caring when they were younger if they spoke any English at all! Just pick a family friendly hotel and do a check on Tripadvisor to make sure it’s popular with families.

@Fishcakey

From what age did you take a friend of your DC please? We're debating this but DD is only 8 & that seems a bit young still (especially as she's only had a friend stay over twice & stayed at a friend's twice so far).

Not until 12 although he went away with his cousin younger than that. It would need to be a very confident 8 year old I guess to come away with you. DS wouldn't join in with kids clubs at aged 8 and would just have to put up with us.