Christmas Holiday 2010

[TeaBarMech]

Right then, went away on holiday at Xmas 2008 to Florida for 10 days in a private villa - the family & I did the whole Disney /Universal/SeaWorld thing and had a great time. Moreover, we managed to get the villa cheap and flights were under £500 per adult return so, for a trip to Florida at least it was relatively good value.

Fast forward 12 months and talk is rife in the TeaBarMech household of a repeat at xmas this year. Great I thought, until that is we looked at the escalating cost of it all - direct flights with BA/Virgin return are now around £800 per adult return, the villa cost has upped by around 50% and to add insult to injury I'll be stumping up for TeaBarMech baby number 2 this time round aswell.

This has left me considering other options for a possible family holiday at xmas - I'm open to any ideas, cold places, hot places, busy or quiet, basically anything anyone has done themselves and would recommend over the festive period.

Any good gen greatly appreciated

[The Zookeeper]

Myself and her indoors once went camping in the forest of dean in september. It was cold AND quiet. I reckon it could only be slightly more extreme in december!

[Realist78]

go to holidayrentals.co.uk and you'll find some real treats, why not try the far east, flights for around £500, accommodation reasonable and living cheap.

[gemarriott]

Me and Mrs Gem went the Egypt, Sharm All Inclusive for 11 days for 1K for both of us on New Year's Day. Grand hotel, grand weather we had a great time. Plenty to do for the kids if you have them and good night life too if you wanted it.

[Vim_Fuego]

This must win the award for the earliest Christmas 2010 thread....Only 321 frantic shopping days away!

[grumpyoldb]

This must win the award for the earliest Christmas 2010 thread....Only 321 frantic shopping days away!

Time to start saving for the January sales then. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[185]

try cyprus whent this year for xmas/new year.shorts&t-shirts during the day wall to wall sunshine in the 70s.nightime cooler,wife might need a cardi. all in all id do it again.

[pie sandwich]

Or for something different you could look at the Landmark Trust (http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/), I've hired out a place called Fort Clonque (http://bookings.landmarktrust.org.uk/BuildingDetails/Photos/68/Fort_Clonque) on Alderney for a week this year, its a massive fort that sleeps 13 and has all the German gun positions from the war.:PDT_Xtremez_30:

But they have lots of other places around the country and the British Isles. It can be a bit expensive, but the place I have booked was £930 for a week but there is 7 of us going all chipping in a bit, and its in half term.

[grumpyoldb]

Or for something different you could look at the Landmark Trust (http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/), I've hired out a place called Fort Clonque (http://bookings.landmarktrust.org.uk/BuildingDetails/Photos/68/Fort_Clonque) on Alderney for a week this year, its a massive fort that sleeps 13 and has all the German gun positions from the war.:PDT_Xtremez_30:

But they have lots of other places around the country and the British Isles. It can be a bit expensive, but the place I have booked was £930 for a week but there is 7 of us going all chipping in a bit, and its in half term.

Ah............... so you're taking all the kiddies away with you..............? :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[pie sandwich]

Ah............... so you're taking all the kiddies away with you..............? :PDT_Xtremez_42:

It's ok the kids are not mine.... :PDT_Xtremez_41: