AI or half-board separate room for child

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I'm looking for summer holidays in 2025 with my 13 year old & my partner (not my child's dad). We want a resort that is all-inclusive or half-board that has a separate room for DS, whether that is Interconnecting or in a family suite or apartment. What's the best way of finding this?

We're quite easy with location and can do hot hot as used to travelling about in August. Canaries, Balearics, further afield to Caribbean potentially, or other places we've not considered are all open. We just want a mix of beach / entertainment & kids for DS to potentially mix with / local places to explore or activities or day trips.

The big sticking point is the sleeping situation as it's not really fair or appropriate to all sleep in the same room together.

I'd be happy to do an Airbnb but I know DS is keen on pool / other kids.

Any ideas or tips welcome!
For budget, prob around £1200-£1500 PP for about a week, but this is flexible.

Golden Avenida in Salou has a separate room with 2 single beds and a double in the main room with a small kitchen area and living area.

There's evening entertainment and plenty to do in Salou. There are also daily games run by the hotel during the day.

There are quite a few places with either interconnecting rooms or family rooms with a separate room. However I agree it’s a real pain trying to find them. Travel agents are better at this as I believe they have software which shows detail like this. So you may do better trying a few agents.

Actually the trickier part may be finding a place that has other kids for your DS to hang out with. By 13 they are too old for most kids clubs and it can be luck of the draw whether there are suitable age kids hanging out by the pool (and who are open to making friends).

The obvious exceptions are Mark Warner or Neilson: these are full of teens and tweens, activities are run in age specific groups and all kids there do the activities, as that’s what people are there for. So plenty of other kids for your DS. They do family rooms BUT be careful because some family rooms don’t have the kids area fully separated off. If in doubt, ask!! If the family room doesn’t suit, most of their resorts also offer interconnected rooms, these are pricier than the family rooms but you are guaranteed a full wall divide.

Greek islands have tons of AI resorts that offer 2 bedroom accomodation. It’s usually just that though, one bathroom and two bedrooms off a central lounge. Sometimes with a balcony.

Landmar Costa los gigantes Tenerife. Ticks all
Those boxes and has a teens club

Bahia principe Fantasia also

Tui blue flamingo beach lanzarote also has separate rooms though probably for younger families.

You could probably do a lot worse than going into a branch of Hays travel and asking them if they can find what you want amongst the Jet2holidays packages that they sell because as a PP says its quite hard to do this yourself on their website.

Thanks very much everyone! All those suggested places sound like they would work. It's given me some concrete places to check out.

I was thinking perhaps a travel agent might be the way to go but I was hoping there was a trick I'd missed with online searching.

Jet2 lets you filter by room type if you select a destination- ie Corgu not Greece. Find hotels you like then price match.

We have stayed at the Golden Avenida - the room set up would suit you, but Salou is an absolute shithole. The hotel itself is fine - not luxurious, but you wouldn't expect luxury for the price. The food was fine, it was clean, and there is family-friendly evening entertainment every night. Apparently it is near a big theme park that's very popular, but our kids were too young for us to bother dragging them there in the heat - probably better for teens. You couldn't pay me enough to return to Salou.

We have also stayed at Club Marvy in Turkey - interconnecting rooms with separate bathrooms. It was quite expensive and not much in the way of evening entertainment for teens - there is a good waterpark area there though, the food is excellent and it has a private beach so it feels quite safe.

There are quite a few places in Turkey that have this style of room - it is a slog looking through all the details to find the option though. It would be great if they could add it as a search feature on the website, maybe we need to start a campaign for that.

There is a trick. If you search for 3 people it will throw up rooms with a sofa bed which you don't want.
Look on Jet2 or TUI and try searching for 4 adults in apartments, then choose the HB filter. This will throw up plenty of places where you can get a two bedroom apartment on a complex with pools, HB or AI. You will pay a little more as it's underoccupancy.
To book you might have to ring up.

Lots of the Barut hotels in Turkey have what you’re after