We need to book our summer holiday, we have two weeks booked off work at the end of August. We have two teenagers who have both been begging to be allowed to take a friend each with them on holiday, and we’ve agreed to this as otherwise they’ll just be bored and look at screens all day. My husband and I have really busy years ahead of us at work and will want a quiet holiday of doing nearly nothing, as opposed to an adventure/sightseeing trip, we’ve done plenty of them.
We were going to look at a villa somewhere, probably for a week/10 days max, maybe Greece, but everywhere seems really expensive and I don’t know the areas at all, and I worry about getting a villa and it being not nice or too far from nice things to visit/places to go for food.
We thought that maybe a hotel with activities would be more fun for the kids, but 3 rooms would be expensive and I’m not sure about the younger kids being in a room separate from us.
Ideally something might exist that’s like an apartment or villa in a hotel with activities? Does such a thing exist?! So we could have 3 bedrooms self contained with a living space but also go for breakfast and go to a big swimming pool, maybe a beach?? Am I dreaming?! I’m pretty relaxed on location, southern Europe I guess, really need to get something booked as flights everywhere are getting really expensive, but I feel completely flummoxed.
Tell me your stories of going away with kids + friends please!!!