I'm hoping for some words of wisdom here. I'm wanting to book a lovely family trip this summer for my husband and two teenage kids. As teenagers they get bored on beach holidays and they are both quite adventurous and keen to explore. In the past we have been to the Rockies and toured around (booking everything ourselves) and last summer we went to Sri Lanka and toured the whole island and loved it, especially the 5 days at the end by the beach. All apart from one thing....they are too old for a family room and so my husband and son shared a room in most of the hotels (which made it very expensive), but also they just rubbed each other up the wrong way! So I'm keen to avoid the hotel situation again.
It's my 50th this year and I suspect it will be the last year my daughter will want to come on holiday with us so I want to make it special. Ideally we have a really lovely budget of about 12k. I'd love to go to Costa Rica, but have been really put off by the weather in kids summer holidays and also how would I do that if not in hotels?
Other places I'm interested in are Vietnam, Thailand but again put off by weather.
Where else could we go. I've thought of Greek islands but isn't that just beachy? Also thought of combining Lake Como with something else, but not sure what.
I'm a bit overwhelmed and no idea where to start. HELP!