Recommendations for peaceful UK or short-haul family holidays with calmer atmosphere (and not many aggro holiday makers).

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Can anyone recommend a UK holiday OR a short haul abroad holiday where it is quite nice in terms of the general genre of holiday makers?

We've just come back from a cheap and cheerful UK seaside break and there were soo many shouty, sweary mums and dads. Both my kids commented on it!!

I know that sounds snobby but we actually live in a rather interesting area ourselves so it's not like we are sheltered and never hear shouting or swearing. One of my kids isn't bothered by swearing and one hates it. I'm pretty neutral. None of us like hearing parents emotionally abusing their kids. 😔

It got me thinking, even abroad holidays we do tend to be 3 star type resorts and have experienced this in a few different places.

Can anyone recommend anywhere they've been that has been nice and peaceful and not felt like a Jeremy Kyle style cuffle could break out next to them?

The Netherlands! Their beaches are wonderful

Menorca Cala Galdana or Binibequer
Crete Almyrida
Skiathos Koukounaries
Zakinthos Gerakas

It sort of depends on what you like to do, but we stayed in a holiday cottage in the Scottish borders last year and it was gorgeous. We live in London and it was like a different world. The cottage itself is on a working farm and the family who run it were lovely. Beautiful scenery, lots of great walks and we did a few day trips too - Edinburgh (for a day at the festival as they have lots of kids shows) North Berwick for the seaside and their famous fresh lobster, and we had a lovely wander round Holy Island. This is the place we stayed at in case of interest but lots of others in the area: https://www.unique-cottages.co.uk/cottages/south/borders/hb5-shepherds-rest

Seconding Scotland, I’ve just come back from the Highlands staying in an Airbnb on a remote farm - no shouty sweary types there (and I don’t blame you for not wanting to be around that sort of behaviour) but lots of pretty coastal towns in easy reach.

Iom is my suggestion too. Take your car on the ferry, book a cottage and explore. It's stunning. Beautiful clean beaches, clean sea you can swim in, ice cream parlours on the beach, castles, marinas, boat trips, dolphin and seal watching, paddle boarding, beach huts to rent, kayaking round the coast, plus its really safe too.

In the UK:
Pembrokeshire
Northumberland
Forest Holidays

Not UK:
Isle of Man
Eurocamp if you have children - go for a smaller site
Belgium - not Antwerp/Ghent/Bruges - we were the only English/British people where we stayed

It was these Hooray Henry types liking the sound of their own voices I was referring to in my previous post, I’m glad someone else recognises the sort of person I had in mind .

It's loud people in general that spoil it for me regardless of background and nationality.

I do.

Are there any British holiday makers in between your unimaginative stereotypes of nice and quiet or loud and lairy?