Easter Break Ideas?

[WorriedMom24]

Looking for short break ideas for the long easter weekend and am really struggling to come up with anywhere.

2 adults, 2 older primary-aged children. Happy to get a short, not too expensive, flight somewhere.

Any suggestions??

Duinrell in the Netherlands?

UK or abroad?

Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Berlin - loads of cities but Easter isn’t cheap! Do dc like history? Northumberland for castles? North Yorkshire for just about everything! London if you don’t live there. Edinburgh? Manchester and Liverpool? Do you like museums? Many world class ones there. What about industrial history ? My DC liked museums that recreated life - so Coalbrookdale was good.

We went to Nice a couple of years ago - it was warmish and lots to explore...had a lovely break!

Ooh Northumberland is a good shout as it’s somewhere I’ve fancied going.

Paris, Rome, Berlin and Amsterdam I’ve done before. Our last foreign city break didn’t go well as the kids complained it was “boring”. They like theme and water parks - both of which I despise.

Quite fancy Venice but I think it will be ££££.

I love Yorkshire, but DH has an awful uni friend he’d want to visit if we went that way and I just can’t 😬

@WorriedMom24 We mostly avoided water parks. We just didn’t go where there were any. Went to Centre Parcs once. We didn’t go to the one in Dubai. Our DC didn’t keep asking for them. We usually managed to link something in a city with history! Romans, WW2, Art etc.

Northumberland is great for a holiday. Hadrian’s wall!

How about the Peak District? You could fit in a trip to Alton Towers if you could bring yourself to do a Theme Park?

Try Copenhagen…There is a theme park in the centre. You can get city passes, you buy one adult and a free child pass.
It’s quite cheap to get a hotel and flights but food out there is more expensive than eating out here.

You won't find any water parks within short-haul flight distance that are open at Easter, as the water would be freezing.

Seville and Palma come to mind, for fairly reliable weather — anywhere further north can be cold and showery in mid-April.

But there's no getting past the fact that kids are often hard to interest in city breaks because architecture, parks, and museums often are quite boring at that age.

We’re going to the Peak District with our 11yo.

You won't find any water parks within short-haul flight distance that are open at Easter, as the water would be freezing

Sounds like the OP needs to visit Slash Landing then at Alton Towers

She could go into the Spa and leave her DH with the Dc for a while.