Large group holiday- help with destination/hotel

[Meadowbreeze]

We are planning a large group holiday this summer and I need some help with ideas. It will be for 2 weeks and we are open to all of Europe, preferably not further than that. Budget is mid to large range. Roughly 9k per family of 3 (2 weeks).
It'll be a mix of small kids, older couples and teens.
The requirements are:
Reasonable priced food (£70 per day pp preferably) or full board/ all inclusive.
The ages of people coming are:
Kids: 4,6,6,6,8,11,12,14,14,15
Adults: 22,28 and than 30+. None of retirement age.
A hotel/resort that's not too far out for activities or a nice town.
Must have family/interconnecting rooms.
I really want to be able to give the parents of small kids the ability to leave them in a kids club but that's not a deal breaker. What I really need is water activities for the older kids, preferably included so needs to be waterfront. Not fussed about academies/golf/tennis or anything like that.
The problem I'm having is the resort's all look pretty huge or are in Turkey which a couple of the families are too scared to go to, same with cruises.
Anyone knows if this exists in Europe?

Thanks

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Mark Warner? Club Med?

this place? I've not been but heard good things..
www.martinhal.com/sagres/

Thank you! Will have a look. Looked at mark Warner not club med. Will check now.

So 9k per family of three for two weeks?
Check out Club Magic hotels, they have family sized accommodation and water sports.

@crimblecrumble1 In that region, yea. It's a social holiday so we will chip in to top up where it needs it but absolute max is 10k per 3 person family.

Sorry, special holiday. And thank you, will have a look at that too. I am thinking of maybe calling up some travel companies.

I think contacting some travel companies is a really good idea as you have a massive budget between you.

@CrimbleCrumble1 do you have any recommendations? I was looking at audley but they haven't got much for Europe.

No sorry I don’t but it all sounds very exciting.

We stayed in a magic life hotel that will fit the bill (need to check up about interconnected rooms as it's not something I looked for). There's a few scattered across Europe and they are ai with kids provision from 4 I think (didn't use it as kids are adults). Lots of sports on site and could book excursions through the tui app. Not posh (4 star but resort 4 star rather than city know what I mean) but had multiple restaurants as well as a buffet.

Upside is it's much cheaper than your max budget! Plenty of scope for extras eg a special meal out

Alternatively I went with neilsson years ago, that was great

How many of you are there total? Is everyone in family groups of three?

I suggest an independent travel agent. They can search the whole of the market and may have discounts available. They can often help with Covid advice etc too
I have a good one I use and I’m happy to share her info on PM if required (promise it’s not me)

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz
Right I've made a spreadsheet to send to whatever travel agent I can find. This is the breakdown:

Family 1
2 adults
3 kids 4,6,6

Family 2
2 adults
1 kid- 12

Family 3
2 adults
2 kids- 6,8

Family 4
2 adults
2 kids- 11,14

Family 5
2 adults

Family 6
2 adults (22 and 28, only younger ones without kids)

Family 7
1 adult
1 child-14

22 altogether. The 3 kid family is the one causing problems with rooming situation. The others don't want to share a room with their kids for 2 weeks so need interconnected or family type set up.

@Hoppinggreen yes please! I don't care if it's you as long as you're good lol.
I'm starting to get stressed out with it and think maybe it's too big a group. If I can't find a company that will be able to help my next choice was to find a package that sort of suits everyone and get everyone to book independently.

I think Magic Life in Ibiza does 2 room apartment type of accommodation.
Or for your budget you could probably afford Daios Cove in Crete which would fit most if not all your requirements.

[quote Meadowbreeze]@Hoppinggreen yes please! I don't care if it's you as long as you're good lol.
I'm starting to get stressed out with it and think maybe it's too big a group. If I can't find a company that will be able to help my next choice was to find a package that sort of suits everyone and get everyone to book independently.[/quote]
I have messaged you

Thank you so much to you both! Very helpful

So is the budget 10k per each of those seven families (so 70k) or 3k pp (so 66k)?

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz it's a bit more complicated than that. Some people, eg family 1 are only able to contribute 1.5k pp and others are able to contribute other amounts. We have agreed to top it up so that everyone can be together. It is all one family just cousins and siblings and so on. So for this reason, based on peoples available funds, the absolute maximum we can spend altogether is £70k. This takes into account people's contribution as well as our top up. Hope that makes sense.
Really we all wanted to go to Thailand but that's not going to happen for a number of reasons, regardless of COVID.

Over £3k per person is a really decent budget.

Mitsis hotels could work, I went to one in Crete and it was lovely. There was lots of family sized accommodation options. There was a large family with 7 DC and they reserved a big table for them each night in the restaurant. The Mitsis hotels also have speciality restaurants you can prebook if you don’t like buffets but each restaurant is quite small so if you wanted to eat together you’d probably take up the whole restaurant.
You’d easily do it on your budget.

@CrimbleCrumble1 yes and no. Peak summer holiday time in Europe and 2 weeks so really not that much. I'm conscious that there are some coming with us for whom this will be a huge expense and I really don't want them to have to worry about added costs once we're they're hence my want for some sort of ore paid board provision.
I have been in touch with some travel agents and hopefully we will get some good ideas back.