Yippeeee! Summer hols booked! - Wedding Forum

nikki · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 09:17 AM

We're off to Woolacombe Bay! Got to be slightly less chavtastic than Butlins and although there isn't the same huge range of stuff I think I would prefer it if there was less in the way of amusements and more in the way of fresh air, given George's current preference for a Wacky Warehouse over a walk on the canal.

I would love to go abroad but at the moment think it's more important to holiday cheaply and prioritise making our house somewhere pleasant to live so we have booked a week in a caravan for a bargain £400!

I'm so excited about it all, it's pathetic really!

N xxx

claireg · #2 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 10:21 AM

I love Woolacombe and used to go when i was little. You'll all have a ball.

Laurie · #3 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 10:48 AM

Woolacombe is ace

I stayed in a static on a holiday park years ago (I was 17) with my family (and my then boyfriend who became hubby no.1). Some family friends also stayed in a tent on another section of the same park so there were a load of us. Ah, the memories... <wanders off in a daydream>

I was about to say that going abroad doesn't always have to be expensive but then I remembered that you're both teachers and can only go at peak time. Duurr-brain that I am!

I can recommend Eurocamp holidays though and they're not usually mega-expensive even in the Summer hols. I think there's another similar type of thing called Vacans Soleil or something but have never looked into it.

As a kiddie we always went on camping or caravanning holidays to the likes of Wales, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and I absolutely loved it

I didn't go abroad until I was 13 years old and that was a one-off until I left home and got a job.

Ang · #4 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 11:03 AM

Never been to Woolacombe but I do love caravan holidays

KarenE · #5 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 11:41 AM

A true beach holiday

KarenE · #6 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 11:47 AM

Whatever time you think the boys are up to a longer drive, you can get a week in France here for the same sort of money - including crossings.

http://www.leisuredirection.co.uk/

Obviously it's much cheaper outside of the school holidays if anyone else is considering it.

bron · #7 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 11:47 AM

I love north devon
Thats MY part of the world
in fact my family did orginate from near there and were mainly in the coastguard etc

nikki · #8 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Laurie

I was about to say that going abroad doesn't always have to be expensive but then I remembered that you're both teachers and can only go at peak time.

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Yes, sadly it's the price we pay for getting long holidays! I always envy people who can go off peak! To be honest, it suits Nick a treat cos he doesn't really like abroad. i, on the other hand, love it and feel very hard done by!

N xxx

Nicola B · #9 (**permalink**) 07-04-2007, 05:47 PM

I used to love staying in a caravan. I am very much looking forward to all the boys being slightly older so that we can stay in one on the Isle of Wight for a week like I always used to. I am desperate to take them to Blackgang Chine and Alum Bay etc.

Nicola

Teresa · #10 (**permalink**) 10-04-2007, 03:56 AM

That sounds fab. When I was a kid we always went on caravan holidays as my parents had their own caravan. We went all over the place and always had a fab time.