Booked Tenerife today . Only 283 days till take off.

Edited May 22, 20206 yr by Casino

Got back from Florida Monday night, off to Krakow at 6am Friday, 15-man stag trip.

Meeting Squidgy & his bird on Sunday night.

10 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Yeh me too, nice little harbour filled with reasonably priced bars and restaurants, 

Hotel Croatia looks good, but if you fancy something smaller (and cheaper!) have a look at Hotel Cavtat. both just 15 mins drive from Dubrovnic 

The Croats seem to have limited imagination when it comes to the naming of hotels

The hotel we stayed in, in Baska Voda was called the Hotel Croatia :lol:, cracking little hotel and perfectly placed in the resort.  Very little to choose between Cavtat and Baska Voda imo.

Any recommendations for alicante?

Off to Crete in October and checked out Marni Village on the strength of the comments in this thread. The reviews on TA are great so went ahead and booked a week directly. Now looking for a 5 star family orientated AI for the second week

18 hours ago, worthy10 said:

Any recommendations for alicante?

 

Yes. The Alicante tourist commission have plenty.

Go ask them.

2 hours ago, Campos_Wig said:

Off to Crete in October and checked out Marni Village on the strength of the comments in this thread. The reviews on TA are great so went ahead and booked a week directly. Now looking for a 5 star family orientated AI for the second week

Is october not a bit risky, weather wise

Koutoulafari, itself, will be great with so few folk around, but surely it's fingers crossed on the weather

Think Marni shuts late October?

As for AI, there's one big hotel about half a mile away, about a quarter of a mile up from hersonnisos

Other than that, I guess it's hersonnisos or the short trip down the coast to stalis, which would be my choice or malia

If you ask Marni, they will sort you a taxi transfer or use heraklio taxes...hes on fb

Car hire, no idea

 

 

Think the hotel is the imperial belvedere

But I don't know anything about it, other than it looks like it probably does AI

 

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Think the hotel is the imperial belvedere

But I don't know anything about it, other than it looks like it probably does AI

 

For the AI I was going to head either to Rethymnon or Agios nikolaos, 

Rethymnon looks nice

Just that I'm a lazy bugger and when I go to Crete, I go to Marni, so cant help 

did hire a bike one day and did a couple of hours through stalis, malia and on to sissi

We went to Crete last October half-term. 2 days it pissed it down. 5 days of sunny-ish weather. Was warm enough in the day but chilly at night.

On 26 April 2019 at 14:46, worthy10 said:

Any recommendations for alicante?

Tragolargo Moscatel

 

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

25 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

Fuck that.

2 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

Speak to Traf

3 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

Take em camping in Scotland; they’ll love it

9 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Take em camping in Scotland; they’ll love it

Aye, 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 midgies can't be wrong.

On 26/04/2019 at 14:46, worthy10 said:

Any recommendations for alicante?

Get up to the castle, unbelievable views, the marina is nice and there’s a superb full size old Spanish wooden galleon you can have look round, also the beach is splendid and worth spending the day there, then eating a lazy lunch on one of the many restaurants that line the beach watching the world go by with an ice cold bottle of vino. 

Edited April 29, 20197 yr by Mounts Kipper

43 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Get up to the castle, unbelievable views, the marina is nice and there’s a superb full size old Spanish wooden galleon you can have look round, also the beach is splendid and worth spending the day there, then eating a lazy lunch on one of the many restaurants that line the beach watching the world go by with an ice cold bottle of vino. 

 

He's either taking the piss or compiling a tourist compendium of some sort.

12 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Take em camping in Scotland; they’ll love it

Get em to the coast in a lodge/chalet (or a static if you're on a budget) its fab. 

Place we stayed was tight on the beach. The lad spent all day running round like a loon

21 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

Have you looked at Port Aventura in mainland Spain?

It's not my bag but at least there's plenty for the kids to do, free waterparks/white knuckle ride theme parks etc.

Might not be cheap though if you have to go during school hols.

Bored kids = Nightmare holiday imo.

5 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Have you looked at Port Aventura in mainland Spain?

It's not my bag but at least there's plenty for the kids to do, free waterparks/white knuckle ride theme parks etc.

Might not be cheap though if you have to go during school hols.

Bored kids = Nightmare holiday imo.

I’m off to Turkey (not everyone’s cup of tea) In May, it’s seems to be a lot cheaper than your usual places and some of the hotels look like you could spend a month there activities wise. 

6 minutes ago, royal white said:

I’m off to Turkey (not everyone’s cup of tea) In May, it’s seems to be a lot cheaper than your usual places and some of the hotels look like you could spend a month there activities wise. 

Pack your kit bag and weapons, they might be required. 

22 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Been looking for a family fortnight for next years summer hols. Fuck. Me. Prices are fucking obscene for a nice hotel with stuff for a 9 year old and a 15 year old. Over £7k to stay in a pretty basic AI hotel in twatting Majorca.

I give up.

This was one of the main reasons I decided to buy a property In Spain, at least you get to see something for your money.  

8 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Get up to the castle, unbelievable views, the marina is nice and there’s a superb full size old Spanish wooden galleon you can have look round, also the beach is splendid and worth spending the day there, then eating a lazy lunch on one of the many restaurants that line the beach watching the world go by with an ice cold bottle of vino. 

Booked an airbnb, central Alicante. Thanks

2 hours ago, royal white said:

I’m off to Turkey (not everyone’s cup of tea) In May, it’s seems to be a lot cheaper than your usual places and some of the hotels look like you could spend a month there activities wise. 

Turkey is a fair shout mate, we have been a few times before and there are some really good hotels for much cheaper than Europe.

Just fancied a change really and somewhere not completely overrun with russians, they are the most obnoxious rude fuckers I have ever met. The women are very nice to look at round the pool though...

Just want a decent AI hotel with nice enough food for us and a couple of water slides for the lads and we will be happy.

We went to the Holiday Village in Turkey for a cheeky week last October half term, the hotel was nice if a little tired however some of the folk there were right skutters. There was one girl, maybe late teens as she was with a large group of families from the north east who insisted on wearing thong and g-string bikinis despite being massively overweight. It wasn't pretty.

There was also a large group from Wigan who reserved a whole side of loungers on side of the shallow pool every morning then got arseholed whilst their fat kids pissed everyone off with their water guns or constant crying because their parents couldn't be arsed with them.