Minimal spend weekends when you have children

[minimammy]

I'm sure a lot of you are brilliant at this so I'd love your advice. We've recently booked our first holiday in 9 years a bargain apartment in the sun.
We've got cheap flights which we've had help paying for and need to pay back. We should have been absolutely fine to pay it back but then the car wouldn't start and now our heating is on the blink. This is all eating into the money put to one side. I'm determined to not miss out on our break away.
So can you give me advice on how to have a fun and relatively busy weekend without spending to much and the children also feeling the pinch.
Thanks in advance. X

Assuming you have plenty of available time to do stuff with them, could play with or do things you have at home that they don’t want to or aren’t able to do independently.

Films on the TV.

How about junior parkrun on a Sunday morning?

We don't go out every weekend and have paid activities in our family.
Not a do able option all the time.
I'm on an economy drive at home for the foreseeable due to a few years of big spending on the house,new kitchen bathroom garden renovation and lots of plaster in recarpeting etc and have drained the savings pot dry so this year am determined to top it all back up again and not waste money.
We are lucky that we live a five minute drive from woods and a national park and a ten min drive from the beach so we do Sunday lie ins and brekkie in bed (kids love this!) followed by a leisurely dog walk either in the woods or on the beach depending. The kids love it and collect pebbles or drift wood and just enjoy it.
We normally potter around in the afternoons at home and the youngest loves helping with stuff and we often sit and do family movie afternoon on a Sunday. Bag of popcorn and a decent pizza chucked in with weekly shop.
All free or next to nothing in cost and a brill way to fill a weekend without wasting money on crap

I've just asked my youngest what he would like to do today and he said he'd like to get a McDonald's ( they only usually get one if we are on a mammoth drive to see family)) and then do jigsaws.
I think it's me, I feel guilty if they aren't busy and if we haven't 'done something' I feel like we've wasted the day.
Lots of people in our area are relatively well off. They are forever here and there. I don't want my children to feel they are missing out. Maternal guilt.

Op you know your own children. If they’re fine relaxing at home then go with that.
My kids would always say ‘xbox’ or ‘ipad’ if I asked them what they want to do so I get them out and doing other things too. Then they’re calmer at home. If we don’t do anything, they can become very argumentive and annoying.
Kids don’t often know what’s good for them.