Newly single, with pre/teen boys

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Long term MNer. Had a break for a while. Back with a name change.

'D'H is currently undergoing a stereotypical, read the script midlife crisis. Doesn't look like he is going to be through it in time for the summer holidays. Unexpected windfall from work today means I will now have some spare cash to take the kids away. And if things continue as at present, may well be signed off sick for the whole summer.

Last few years, we have holidayed with friends. None of them know he is currently shacked up with another woman, just that we are having some problems and 'working on them'.

Anyway, I have two boys. One just pre-teen, one GCSE year, rising 5 years between them.

I need inspiration for where to go and what to do with them. They need activity and distraction from the shitshow of home life at the moment. Hotels seem to want to put us all in one room together. I am not sharing a room with them! Self catering is not a holiday for me.

Happy to go abroad or stay in UK, if anyone can recommend anywhere that would provide suitable entertainment as well as being an opportunity for downtime for me! And doesn't require me to share a room with two proto-men!

TIA

You might think it a strange suggestion, but I’d recommend a 5* campsite in France called Les Sablons. It’s just 10mins taxi trip from Beziers airport and it’s right on the beach. It has an on-site restaurant and take away facility and is walking distance from a handful of other restaurants and shops. It has a kids club and a teens club, swimming pool with slides, bike hire and lots of sports. It also has an adults-only pool with jacuzzis and solarium.

That might work. In some ways, very similar to what we have done the last few years. We have always driven, but I am not sure I could face driving all that way on my own.

I am finding this whole thing utterly overwhelming at the moment. H is hot and cold, some days he appears to want to come home, sees his part in the mess, then the next he is back to angry and blaming me for everything.

Neilsons or Mark Warner

So, today, I am trying with the idea of just taking the whole summer off. Get signed off sick, as i am so very tired of this nonsense and need a break, almost like not so DH has done.

Maybe find an AirBnB or similar where I and my boys can just chill, go to the beach etc. Somewhere they can be pretty independent, come and go as they want. So needs to be safe and have amenities locally.

Am I insane?