Are you changing your holiday plans next year due to heatwave?

[TaraTomsmum]

Currently in Spain and it’s so hot we have to stay mainly inside during the day. Luckily the hotel has an indoor pool. Are you changing your holiday plans due to the heatwave we see in Southern Europe at the moment or are you ok holidaying in the heat?

I’ve got young children and we normally holiday outside school summer holidays as it’s cheaper/quieter and we can. I’m thinking we might keep this up and make the Easter holidays our ‘big trip’ and then keep to the UK during June-sept. But I’m not made for the heat, I’m not a sun worshipper so anything above 26 I’m out 😅

Yes! I am going to Turkey tomorrow and am worried about how we will cope with the heat. May or October holiday abroad next year for sure.

After a hot holiday in Greece 3 years ago we aren't going anywhere in the Med in Summer.

While Germany and US was also 30 degrees, that's still a lot less than the nearly 40 my colleague had on Majorca last week.

Luckily we are out of school holiday from this year onwards and while we may do a trip with DD, it will most likely be September before she has to go back to uni.

We’ve already changed our holidays. Going to a cooler country in the summer hols. Doing hot holidays over the winter.

Hopefully this is the last year we will have to do summer school holidays and then it will be June or September, my favourite months to go away. Much cheaper and nobody else’s kids 😆

I would never go to Greece or Turkey in August but would still do France.

I haven't been to the Med in July/August for decades. We holiday in northern Europe in the summer and go to southern Europe in October half term. Much better for sightseeing, it's cooler and there are fewer people. April/May would be even better but we're in the exam years.

Any ideas for less hot destinations?

We're off to Florida in 3 weeks 🤣🤣🤣.
At least it'll actually rain there.

We go in late September this year as dc grown up, often we go in January if a winter sun destination. Prefer to be in the U.K. when weather is ok

@TaraTomsmum

look at Finland, really lovely to visit and was a very comfortable low 20’s in august

Norway is good in the summer months as is Scotland.

Norfolk is lovely in March. And December.

Scandinavia. You could try the Alps, although it can still be quite hot in the summer.

I have been to the alps and it’s been really hot and too hot to be very active and do the hikes I wanted.

I am from Scandinavia so that’s out too as I know how much it can rain 😉

We’re off to the high arctic 😁

We made that decision a few years back already, and this will be the third year in a row that we go to northern Scotland (Orkney and Shetland). 2021 was Norway, which was fairly similar in terms of climate - but too expensive to be enjoyable.

We live in central Europe which has become quite difficult to live with over the past 20 years (nothing quite as bad as southern Europe, but tomorrow is forecast for 36 degrees, for example), so a few weeks in Scotland is a welcome cool break away from the summer heat AND a different country and culture to our normal lives.

Ooh, not going to Svalbard by any chance, are you? That’s something of a dream for me.

We are! Going on an expedition ship —-converted car ferry— and I’m really excited, not least that no suncream needed

I went there last year. It was cold but staggeringly beautiful. And we saw polar bears.
Go!

It's not this year that has changed my mind, but we have deliberately avoided anywhere that isn't UK for the summer holidays since the eldest started school. Have done a couple of May half term trips abroad and that was quite hot enough thank you!

I love the heat! We were on a western Mediterranean cruise earlier this month, it was well into the 30s and we head to Greece in August. We experienced a heatwave in Corfu in 2023, it was fine as we had a lovely pool.

After south of France two years ago I swore off southern Europe in high summer. Or at least ensuring we have aircon and a pool if we do. The first half of the holiday was unbearably hot and humid, so not risking that again.

Ile de Re was lovely 25c last july.

We went to Fuerteventura last summer to avoid the hot med, it was blessed with the breeze and some overcast mornings.