Short summer holidays from London

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Hi, it's my first time planning a family holiday from London and I thought that maybe some of you have just booked their summer holidays and can share what you are doing.
We are looking for a beach holiday in a resort with breakfast included not more than 2.5 hours flight for 4 nights and we don't want to spend more than £2,000 inclusive of flights. Is that possible?
Any time from late July to late August.
Where do you normally book your holidays?

Thanks

How many of you?

2 adults and 2 kids (10 and 7)

Faro, Portugal. It has a beach strip with one side facing the sea and one facing land with a wetlands in between. The airport is a 15 minute bus journey to either this strip in one direction or the town centre and marina in the other.

Huge choice of different accommodation.

Perfect short break from London. Great locals too.

Thank you, it looks beautiful.

Up to 2.5 hours flight from London gets a huge range of options - France, pretty much all of Spain and Portugal, Italy, lots of central Europe.

Any preferences to narrow it down?

Spain and Italy would probably me my pick :)