Please help me find the holiday....I am failing

[Saynotopineappleonpizza2021]

2 adults and 2 small children are wanting to go away early June, £3.5k budget

We want a hotel on a beach (or near one), with a splash type pool for the children, within walking distance of a more traditional (not stupidly touristy) village/town.

Spain/Greece/Italy

Please tell me someone has recommendations because I am going around in circles

Grecotel Marine Palace and Viva Cala Mesquida Resort

Castello boutique - Sissi, Crete?
Georgiopolous beach hotel, Crete?

Hoposa hotel - Port de pollenca

Sorry shld have said Majorca?

Why don't people use travel agents anymore? They are the experts and are not necessarily more expensive than finding your own deal. And a lot less hasssle.
For years we never used Travel Agents ... to be honest I never deal holiday admin - that's DH's role .... then a few years ago we did use a TA and it was fab, recommended a wonderful holiday we would probably never had discovered 😀

Try Barrhead travel. I'm not affiliated to them in any way but when I see them advertising their prices seem good.

Costa Grand in Santorini :)

Early June is the Jubilee holiday. Won’t everyone be going then so high prices will be an issue?

Magic natura, just outside Benidorm
Paradise park, Tenerife
Leonardo Laura beach, Cyprus
King evelthon, Cyprus

Most schools are off the week before and not all of them have a fortnight in May. If OP leaves it till say 7 June it will be all over and schools going back.

www.delphinahotels.co.uk/sardinia/hotels/ledune/ Sardinia

Croatia! Rovinj, Porec, Umag, Fazana - pretty much every coastal town fits this. And June should be cheap. Or Portoroz/Piran on the Slovene coast.

I love Croatia but for various reasons it's not an option this time. Thank you all - loads to look through.

Travel agents are fab but they always seem to lack the local knowledge of if its a safe walk to a hotel from a town that you can only gain from actually having been there as a guest

Have you looked on TUI OP? What are you looking for kids club/water park for the kids? TUI offer family life and holiday villages. To be honest to cut costs I usually book anyway with a watermark and kids club similar kind of thing.

I am going to Stella villiage in Greece in June.

This ticks all your boxes OP:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/HotelReview-g659968-d254185-Reviews-InsotellPuntaPrimaaResortSpa-PuntaaPrimaMenorcaaBalearic_Islands.html

It's in Menorca. V short airport transfer, lovely shallow kids pool, right next to the beach (not a huge beach but nice enough). Short walk along the coastline to punta prima village. Looks in budget too.

We went a few years ago and loved it

@ouchmyfeet that looks perfect thank you!!

@countdownis35 yes I've actually looked at that exact hotel, I'm just wary of when the new waterpark will be finished as I can imagine my children getting annoying nagging why they can't use a half finished waterpark

I've stayed in Palma in Spain when DS was little too.

Last year I stayed in So coma Globales Bouganbilla as I got a cheap deal the rooms were not fancy. But the water park was one of the best I've been to in fact I think it was the best DS loved it!

Ahhh I know the dreaded reno waterpark noise... I'm hoping it will be completed and the restrictions for Greece will be dropped by June

@Saynotopineappleonpizza2021

I love Croatia but for various reasons it's not an option this time. Thank you all - loads to look through.

Travel agents are fab but they always seem to lack the local knowledge of if its a safe walk to a hotel from a town that you can only gain from actually having been there as a guest

Google Maps and streetview is good for that sort of research. You can see if there's a footpath and whether it looks well lit, busy, etc.

Also whether a town is nice and authentic or full of Big Lils English Breakfasts type places.

Check the recent reviews as it's years since I stayed there but this hotel ticks all your boxes. It's just a little fishing village but there was a few local tavernas for evening meals, a small supermarket (the rooms had a fridge and kitchenette which was useful) and the beach is across the road. www.onthebeach.co.uk/hotels/cyprus/cyprus/polis/latchi-family-resort