Family holiday

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Looking for ideas for a family summer holiday. Ideally direct travel from Glasgow or easy (and not crazily expensive) connections. Up to 1 week, 2 adults, 2 teenagers, not super hot, budget including spending money max £5k. Don't really want "a week in Spain package holiday", not that I have anything against them but think nowadays they are very expensive when all you really get is resort, sun and pool. I'd prefer something a bit more interesting. Happy to go to Spain though, perhaps city break that's not too over crowded. Is there anywhere further afield that would be more expensive to fly to buy much cheaper when there? We've left it very late and I just cannot think.
So, my question really is what holidays have you done travelling from Glasgow with that kind of budget for a family of 4 to get me started?

Thing with Spain though is it will be baking hot in the Summer. Much of Europe will be. Valencia might be nice. I believe it’s a mix of coastal and city. Same with Nice for Monaco and Cannes. Might be Edinburgh for Nice flights with EasyJet though. Sitges is on the train line to Barcelona but Barca is always mobbed.

Jersey might be good. You’ll get decent weather, brilliant food and you can get the ferry too and from France easily enough. Again, easyJet flights.

Center parcs in Netherlands. Fly to Amsterdam then hire car.
Parcs and activities are cheaper than UK ones. Loads to do for teenagers, weather better than Scotland but not baking hot

Yes I did think Spain might be too hot but then all of Europe can be boiling in the summer so I'm a bit stuck

Will check that out as a good idea. Will maybe check Duinrell as an option

Can I join in? Totally stuck too. Teens that like computers and don’t seem to like anything else.

Hi there, maybe check out a bit of an interrail? Me and my parents flew to Malaga for 2 nights, then got the train to Seville, stayed there for 2 nights, and back to Malaga for 2... it was something a bit different and we really enjoyed it!

If you are looking for something a bit different, and maybe even cheaper then I would recommend checking out transfertravel.com

Hope this helps and you get fixed up.

If you don't want hot then Scandinavia? We did Copenhagen last summer, flew from Edinburgh, stayed in a 3 bedroom airbnb in the city and had a fabulous time. 3DC, age 11-15. Cost us pretty much exactly £5k including eating out once a day and doing mix of museums/art galleries plus more expensive activities (e.g. Tivoli Gardens, Roskilde Viking Boat Museum inc boat trip, Aquarium). I'd assume Norway or Sweden would be similar prices.

We're in Edinburgh and have been to The Netherlands a few times, Duinrell and Efteling are good and Eurocamp do decent accommodation. We take the Newcastle ferry to just outside Amsterdam.

What about France? EasyJet fly to Bordeaux from Glasgow or Ryanair fly to various places from Edinburgh. You could do campsites or just gites etc