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It's not about me, it's about the boys! Was my mantra as we kissed our usual out of season cheap holidays goodbye.
We are dead keen self caterers, both pretty handy in the kitchen and don't like to conform to times while on holiday.
Still we love our boys and hope they have good time.
I must say for kids it must be just like finding the golden ticket for Wonkas factory tour.
The boys had the best time and everything is geared towards them.
There were more than just a few things that make me think it will be worth risking being disowned by my off-spring rather than another trip to hades itself.
I thought at one point we had missed timed our holiday to join a tattoo and smoking convention, but these folks were actually just here for the kids and probably thought the same when they saw me.
What is laughable (or not in pissing rain) is the car park for the self catering flats was on the other end of the complex.
I couldn't find a single working trolley, and believe me I tried.
It was a ten minute hike to the flat wrestling these things with kids that want to go on that now!
Finally everything sorted into the tiniest space for the most money I have ever spent!
At least there was a lot of cool free stuff for the boys.
The pool is brilliant, complete with wave machine and all.
Loads of shows for the kids which they loved.
But we couldn't spend another night on that bed and gave up a day early.
Poor service in eating places confirmed we made the right choice to cater for ourselves.
But it was the look on the boys faces that made it all worthwhile.
I am glad we did.
But I won't be going back.
Centre parks next time?
SingleTripadviserWorld.
Blackpool? 😀
Is this some weird haiku-style review or has my brain just given out as it's Friday afternoon?
We went a few years ago - I thought it was like a prison camp without the guards...
Did your kids not constantly want to do the pay-extra activities?
I went once, a few years back. Our daughter loved the place and had the time of her life. Felt like the whole place revolved around kids in the day and then adults getting drunk at night which got to me in the end. Made a bid for freedom a day early and thought that was the end of it.
Then we got scabies from the beds. Certainly got more than I bargained for on that trip.
Sleep tight.
We're going for second time this christmas. As only one child the spare bets pushed into the parents to mske a king size bed. The chippy 5mins down ths road is far better than the one on site, sneek a beer into the tent while thomas/ sam/ x factor failure is on.
You forgot all the fat jeggin wearing mums wondering why the childs crying on thier way out at 9pm.
On the plus side the little un loves it and always get moneys worth for the all you can eat pizza.
You could always go to inglemells (sp?) for some class.
Is this some weird haiku-style review or has my brain just given out as it's Friday afternoon?
Yeah I was also wondering why it was laid out like a poem. Very hard to read without think of it like that - strange. 😕
We once stayed in a Haven "Bronze Chalet". After a particularly drunken night we woke up to find that our front door was unlocked and someone had taken a dump on the living room floor.
To this day, we have no idea if it was one of us or a mysterious stranger.
haha "the Bronze special"
We took the youngest one to Minehead last year to a football coaching thing they we're doing, I was a bit apprehensive as it isn't really the sort of thing we normally do.
Not too bad really, expensive for what you get but enjoyable all the same, I'd been warned not to take the cheaper food and accommodation options so we went with the best one they did.
Me and the missus had some great days out and about around Somerset whilst the lad did his football.