So where should I take the children away for the weekend that isn't Brighton and isn't a hassle?

[foxinsocks]

I know, I'm very lazy. But dh about to bugger off for a few weeks. I'm madly busy at work. Will be throwing children at the mercy of friends, MIL, anyone who looks like they vaguely know what to do with them and thought it might be quite nice to take them away for a night in a hotel on the weekend.

We're SW London (v near to start of M3) and wherever it is, we'll drive there but I don't want to be driving for hours.

Can anyone think of anywhere

ok, i'd say new forest or winchester your best bet then.

Ah, you obviously suffer badly fox , rotten luck
It's so nice there...unless you are Mr bk, it seems. Is he just all Blackganged out?

Sandbanks hotel at Poole?

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Or Bournemouth, great beaches

gawd, mine love hotels for some reason (not that we've stayed in many).

They race round the room pressing all the buttons and making the TV work. They find it all very exciting.

Bournemouth, short drive, great beaches, plenty to do

Arundel YHA is fabbo and v. child-friendly

Look on laterooms.com for the South and see what grabs your fancy.

We were considering a quick trip last w/e and everywhree was booked up!

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cod, you are following me around wet blanketing you miserable mare!

i get enough of that at home from h thanks.

Labour conf in Bournemouth coming up so that rules itself out

will look at Arundel I think or possibly New Forest.

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blu, you could have done the gamelan workshop then! we had a really nice time at the south bank last sunday.

oy, cod. i am poncey mcponce. took the kids to a gamelan orchestra workshop at the royal festival hall last sunday.

google farmstay or stay on a farm or whatever

would thoroughly not recommend winchester though perhaps biased as chose it for a dirty weekend some years ago and it was stupefyingly dull, also lived there for a couple of years later and likewise

Brockenhurst (nEW fOREST) on the train (very frequent service from waterloo; go riding and walking in forest

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It's the final arrival of more than three hours consecutive sun I spose blu, what a shame
Fox, people rate Sandy Balls in the NF very highly

tennis match v. gamelan orchestra workshop???

there is no way a tennis match outponces a gamelan orchestra workshop, no way, missus.

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yeah, but we'll go somewhere where we go out during the day then come back to hotel and slump and then wake up next day - have breakfast and either pootle about or come home.

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Go to Devon and let them run mad on the beaches. Bit if a drive but thankfully is not like August madness.

I want to cry at the thought of Legoland. All that queuing.

Although we are not far from Chessington or Thorpe Park and those are certainly more doable. But then I'd probably invite friends to come with us. .

It would certainly be a treat for them (but horrors for me).

oh ha ha

but brock so easy to get out of

winchester like prison with laura ashley wallpaper