Holiday with a 4 month old?

[finduspancakes]

We are wondering where we can go on holiday with a 4 month old either the end of September or end of October? We definitely want to go somewhere before anyone says stay at home!

I thought Centre Parcs then thought it might be more sensible to wait til next year for that so LO can enjoy some of the activities there.

Wouldn't mind a nice hotel but we would need to sterilise her bottles etc.

Don't really mind where as we are in the East Midlands so most places arent too far to drive.

I'd go seltcatering

Look on cottages4u.com

Mumsnet offers a discount

Then you can sterilise, organise naps, order takeaways etc

A hotel will be a pita at that age

They do short breaks & weeks all over the country

I'd go self catering too, in fact we are, on Saturday off down to Cornwall in our camper van with DCs aged 7, 3 and 15 weeks

Will be great!

I want something quite nice/luxury as due to the time of year we might be spending quite a bit of time in it!

Cottages 4 U has such a poor search facility. It won't let me search for places with hot tubs or more luxury ones so I struggle with it.

Has anyone got any recommendations of what areas of the country might be good, with places to visit (including indoor ones in case the weather is bad)?

We took DD to a nice hotel when she was 5 months, it was good. I can't remember if we had anything that needed sterilising at that point but I'd have thought a steam steriliser would be doable.

If you do self-catering, make sure that you are not in one of those idyllic looking cottages miles from anywhere down a lane (we made that mistake the following year when dd was about 18 months). You want to be near enough to shops, good food etc