Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

Single parent holidays

9 replies

Rainydayss · 27/05/2020 12:42

Next year Id love to take my DD on holiday but she loves playing with other kids and Id worry she would get bored with just me.
I've been looking online and there are some websites that specialise in single parent holidays.
Have anyone had experience of this? Or other suggestions?

OP posts:
GilbertMarkham · 27/05/2020 12:47

I know that eurocamp and similar have single parent rates for their cabins/caravans .. there'd be loads of kids around to interact with I'd imagine.

GilbertMarkham · 27/05/2020 12:48

(Have no experience of the single parent hol websites).

BluebellForest836 · 27/05/2020 12:49

Can you invite a mate to come along?
My hats what a single mum I know does

ErickBroch · 27/05/2020 12:54

Can they take a friend? Not sure of their age, but you could find somewhere to go with great kids clubs and activities so they can do those with other children and give you a couple of hours to do your own thing.

Fiveasidefootballfamily · 27/05/2020 13:03

Personally, I think you would both love it even if she didn’t make friends. It’s an opportunity to get away together. Having said that, if you pick a family-friendly destination and somewhere geared up for kids (Eurocamp or a family hotel with kids club), I’m sure she will make lots of friends. Just do your research and make sure the hotel and area has sufficient to keep you both entertained and maybe limit it to a week if this is your first trip away, to test the waters.

PumpkinP · 27/05/2020 13:34

Kids club

HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime · 27/05/2020 13:36

Single parent holidays seemed very expensive and mostly if you wanted company too which I'm not fussed with.

I took Dd to Latitude festival, camping with tonnes of activities and lots of children to play with on and off but not enough that she wanted to be with them all the time.

We've done several city breaks some to London and up to Glasgow and Edinburgh to watch the European Championships and to do a bit of sightseeing too which was great.

We live near a nice beach so wasn't fussed with doing that abroad until she got older.

Royal Sun Apartments in Tenerife is great, a small quiet resort with nice restaurants. A toddler pool on the upper level and a bigger one on the lower one and enough children to make friends but it wasn't loud and everything is based around the centre area so don't have to worry about Tweens walking too far and getting lost. Not the place for hen nights etc but great for a quiet family holiday.

Washyourhandsyoufilthyanimal · 27/05/2020 13:38

Invite a mate. Or if there is a pool kids often start playing with other kids round the pool. Or look at places with kids clubs if you can afford it.

thepeopleversuswork · 27/05/2020 14:15

Most of my holidays since splitting with DD’s dad (when she was 3) were with other single mum mates and they are probably the best holidays we have ever been on.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page