What are the dates of the October hols in England and Scotland?

[Lilliput]

I need to plan my holiday and as I have pre-schoolers I don't want it to clash with holidays when big kids will be around. Thanks

Scottish hols here hols

Thanks seb1,
And the english hols?

Half term varies from one education authority to another. It'll be 23-27 October in some and 30 October-3 November in others (not sure if there are additional possibilities).

They break up on Friday 20th October and go back on Monday 30th here.

What a lot of variations in the Scottish council holidays for October isn't there? Each one seems to start and end on different dates, you'd think they would all be the same

If you put into google "county term dates" for the place you want to go you should get a link that will tell you specifically, Lilliput; but that won't help you with knowing which other counties are off which week.

Just avoid Fri 20/10 through to Mon 6/11

Break up Friday 20th October and back Monday 30th October here in Poole, Dorset

Oh - except in Scotland.

I'd forgotten they have different hols, it's very unfair , they get cheap holidays because they are outside the norm for most of the UK.

But when we (Scottish schools) are off, holiday prices rocket from Scottish airports, Jan H.

Also, the BBC seems to forget that they cover the whole of the UK and kids holiday programmes never used to start until the English school broke up!

Do they, MrsM? Bummer for you - unless you're in S Scotland and could fly from N English airports? (Does that mean that package prices from eg Glasgow go down in mid-August then?)

OTOH you can take self-catering UK holidays and get cheaper rates - I work for a cottage company and our high season is the same across the board for England/Wales and Scotland, so you would get bargain rates in early July and your half-terms in mid-October. I think that would apply to eg Eurocamp too.

Yes holidays from Scotland get cheaper from the third week of August but flight supplements prior to this (during our summer holidays) are often £170pp so can add over £650 to a holiday.

JanH, are you allowed to name the holiday cottage company you work for? I'm genuinely interested in anywhere that doesn't charge supplements in the october week. Thanks.

cottages4you , Mrs M. Generally w/c Sat 21/10 is 20% more than the previous 2 weeks, and also a lot of nice places are booked already for that week but free for the 2 earlier weeks. (However some Scottish properties are the same per week right through October, I'd never noticed that before.)

w/c Sat 28/10 is even less than the first 2 weeks of Oct though, so anybody whose LEA has picked that week will be quids in.

Go to the availability page and put in your dates and where you'd like to go; it will bring up a list of what's available, and then when you look at individual properties you can check prices per week.