Weekends away with late teens

[WeekendKitKat]

We are sort of in a transition period with our eldest. He’s at uni, going away with mates, but still wants to come on holiday with us (probably due to nice hotels and restaurants!) We also have another teen still living at home.

We went away n a long family holiday, which was a bit trying! It was too long away for them. Then we had a weekend city break and we had the best time! It was short, and we all loved it. It was to Rome.

So, please recommend some city breaks, or 4 nighters to book for next year.

DS really enjoyed Berlin with us, lots of things to do and see and he loved having dinner in the beer hall near our hotel ( I had to cope with the snoring aftermath of DH trying to keep up with his beer drinking).
Lisbon was also good as we did a food walking tour, but Berlin had more in terms of recent historical interest.

Krakow (cheap), Budapest, Munich, Paris, maybe the FWW battlefields? You could pick a theme rather than a city, is what I mean…

What are dc actually interested in? Try and include something they like. My DDs definitely liked art so it was easy to go anywhere. Cairo for ancient Egypt is always a good shout and Athens of course. Agree with Berlin and dc enjoy anywhere in Italy. Go to Bologna and take a trip to the Ferrari museum. My DD was at university in Bologna and it’s got great train services to lots of interesting places and it’s quite lively with students. and great markets and food.

Depends what they are interested in at that age. I have a DS who is 20 so about the same age. Depending on their interests in no particular order Munich, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona (not my choice but DS just spent 5 months studying there and enjoyed it), Smaller town you can visit other places frome Verona, Angers, Cannes, La Rochelle, Pisa, Florence, Tours. Chamonix or other alpine towns if you like walking.

We usually have a holiday in Chamonix every year, we couldn't go last year but DS is desperate to go back this year.

You need to have a chat with them about what they would like to see.

When you say the longer family holiday was too much was it dependent on what you do? I'm not criticising just wondering..We always book an apartment or house so for DS it's just like being at home on the evenings. He talks to his mates online, watches shite on YouTube, food he can join us or not . It's not we are on holiday so we have to have these convivial family dinners every night. We enjoy the days together. Evening is every man for himself 😊.

Apologies if I am way off the mark with that. But you can't expect them to live a totally different life on holiday from at home I don't. Not in the evenings certainly.

Copenhagen is really great - loads to do.

We have DC in their early 20s and try to go away as a family once a year. Both Dubrovnik and Lisbon worked for us. Lots to see and do for a few days. Relatively cheap and plenty of reasonably priced 3 bedroomed Airbnbs.

I went to Krakow with just DH, but that would also fit the bill.

We are history nerds so city breaks/shorter breaks are often centered around that:

French and Belgium WWI cemetries, we looked for graves of two relatives then to Bruges and the WWI Paschendale and Flanders museum
Berlin
Dachau concentration camp - easy to combine with Munich
Prague
Florence

I want to go to Krakow and Auschwitz, DH has been as a 6th former and DD went just to Auschwitz with a school project for one day.

For a bit longer if you think 1 week is doable:
Cyprus - so much to see and do apart from pools and beach. We went for a week and DH and I will go again in April to continue.
Sorrento with Pompej and Herculaneum
Cascais with trips to Sintra, Obidos, Lisbon
Loire valley and a castle a day (great but a lot)

Istanbul - vibrant interesting and very different from the other cities we’ve visited. Think it’s up there. They loved New York too.