Hello,
I'm looking for recommendations please based on actual experiences of family holidays, ideally from people who've travelled in late May/early June.
I'm taking my 8-year-old daughter away for a week over May half term 2027, just the two of us, and would love to find somewhere that really suits us.
Our essentials are:
- All-inclusive, with air conditioning.
- A proper sandy beach, ideally directly accessible from the hotel, but a five-minute walk is absolutely fine. She loves playing in the sand and building sandcastles.
- Warm outdoor swimming pools! This is a big one. We've previously had a holiday where the pools were absolutely freezing, despite lovely weather, and it really spoiled things. Heated pools would be ideal, but I'm happy with unheated ones if they're genuinely comfortable to swim in at that time of year.
- Really good children's entertainment, particularly enthusiastic, interactive mini discos, dancing, songs and early-evening children's shows.
- Not an enormous, overwhelmingly busy resort.
One important thing about the entertainment: although she'll be 8, she doesn't need activities or entertainment aimed specifically at 8-year-olds. She's still absolutely delighted by the sort of mini discos and children's shows that younger children enjoy. She's also happiest doing things with me rather than being dropped off at kids' clubs, so independent activities aren't a priority. We don't need elaborate late-night entertainment, a lovely mini disco and an early children's show are plenty for us.
Where have you stayed that your children absolutely loved? And were the pools actually warm enough to spend hours in?
Thank you!