August holiday - greek island - self-catering apartments complex with kids club .. good or bad idea?

[Twiglett]

for a family with 6 and 4 year old

we don't really do holidays since having kids .. well not well .. they've never been abroad .. we used to do backpack and independent travel pre-kids so I've got a stick up my ass about package holidays if I'm honest

We've never taken DS to a 'proper' holiday complex - just found flights and places to stay on the net, and then found interesting things to do when we get there - 6 and 4 year olds enjoy days out to ruins etc, and you can use a real, akchual beach instead of a chlorinated bacterial soup of a hotel pool.

Can you detect the stick of my own?

S'pose it depends if you want to offload the kids into a kids club or not. Nothing wrong with that - but the only time we did stay in a holiday comples place (hotel in DP's family's country to avoid family for 4 days) DS refused to go in the v good children's club anyway!)

twiglett, you must surely have seen the threads about mousses, lefkas...

ummmm ... we've booked ... eek .. but wihtin 14 day cooling off period still

no noonar .. will look .. but in summary good or bad?

oooh - where have you booked? (vicarious holiday booking envy!!) e mail me!

god twig, link please, I'm in same boat and dithering wildly

fab. fab. fab.

mousses veternas include me, willow, cod, pollyanna, dhw and others. check out the reviews page.

greece package, but off the beaten track. not an england flag in sight.

'veterans'

T'is a fab place - yet to find anyone who hasn't had a good time there. Family who run it are so lovely - got a Christmas card from them this year, even though we didn't go last summer.