Please help me find a holiday this summer

[triplets]

Hi, I am getting despondant! Just cant find anything, booked booked booked!!! My husband has just finished 18 monmths of awful cancer treatment, I have IBS and we have 11yr old triplets! And we are both over 50! Desperate to get away if we get a clear scan result next week. As they wont cover Harrys cancer on the travel insurance we only want to go this country or France. Love to find a wooden lodge, pool, hot tub, animals forest, lake etc. Has anyone any ideas please? I have tried 100s of sites so far

ermmmm ... centre parcs?! Ticks all the boxes!

Keycamp have some offers on . Some of their sites have wooden treehouses, cabins and pgl run activities

center parcs way to expensive, and busy, will look at keycamp though, thanks!

center parcs way to expensive, and busy, will look at keycamp though, thanks!

what's your budget?

Alpine Lodge have some availability according to the Times yesterday. Also Forest Holidays

Look for self catering www.holiday-rentals.com. You are bound to find a nice french place with pool where you can chill and do a bit of sightseeing. Take the car and travel by ferry. We went Portsmouth to St Malo and booked a cabin overnight. the Kids LOVED it and felt it was one of the holiday highlights. St maolo, St Michel le Mont very pretty nice area, plenty to see. St Malo has a lovely beach

Thanks everyone, forest holidays I love the look of, tried to book them for Oct but already full, they only have a 2 bed cabin for 5 nights available this summer. I have trawled holiday rentals, alot of the gites are too rural, the kids would end up bored with only a pool they are at the age they need others to play with, esp Becca as she gets fed up with the boys, always together the whole time! There must be something out ther, budget for rentals about £700 a week max.

Just bumping this up for you.

I have just spent the best part of 3 days trying to find a holiday cottage and you are right there is not a lot avaliable. I've ended up paying way over the odds for a cottage in Seahouses. Haven had some avaliability but I just didn't fancy it. I would think your 3 eleven your olds might though.

Cottages 4 You is a good website to try. Good luck

thanks, glad you have found something!

I think I am very impressed with this

Although we can't go that far as we need to be near Papworth

But they are very reasonable

Still no luck have been offered a couple of things, nothing special and they want a £1000 a week!

triplets, ring cottages4you (0845 268 0760) in the morning & ask what late cancellations they have. You get 50% off those in the UK. Obv I can't say if they'll have anything that ticks any of your boxes but it's worth a try. Good luck

(They do France as well so ask for there too)

Thank you Ponders I will

We go here, beautiful scenery, beaches, sea, lots for children to do...

www.salcombe.com

Yes Salcombe is lovely went there with my first child way back in the 80`s. Would like to find somewhere not in the west country, we have travelled that route so manty times, cannot face the A303 again!

have a look here

this has little houses rather than log cabins

There were some lovely places on that North Wales site I mentioned as well

does it have to be a wooden lodge?

what are your dates?

Check out here. We have just come back from a long weekend and it exceeded all our expectations. It is set in 550 acres of beautiful (but hilly!) Welsh countryside and has loads on offer. The accommodation is very good (far better than Center Parcs imo).

It is still very new, so check out the special offers page and you should be able to get a deal.

Good luck - it sounds like you have been through a heck of a lot recently and could really do with a nice break, wherever that may be

what do you think of this place? you can do a fortnight there in a mobile home for £1265 with matthews france?

gosh.......a rush of possibilities, thank you, we can go anytime after Thurs this week, that is of course if the scan result is good. Need to be back by the 2nd Sept at the latest as our trio start big school on the 4th and no doubt I wont have sewn a single name tag in! Just fancied a log type cabin, we do love nature, sitting on your decking spotting stuff, you know what I mean. But realise we also need to keep 3xs11yr olds busy and happy too!

these people have house boats on the broads

You can sit at the waters edge watching birds & dingy sailors/windsurfers fall in the water

Pubs with nice food close by

would sandy balls suit you? I've never been but some speak highly of it (I've recnetly read it is crowded)
It's somewhere in the New Forest

I know Sandy Balls! Again went there with Matthew my first born, Matthew died in 94. Just thought it would be nice to go somewhere we havent been, Lake District, Wales, France is an option as we have a free ferry ticket to use up. Our trouble is we are older parents with triplets, its hard to please everybody! By choice Id be off to Florida or west coast of the states, but no can do as we cant get travel ins to cover the cancer! And we cant afford it anyway!