Hi there,

A friend of mine has asked me to look for a nice family all inclusive hotel in Gran Canaria for her. She has 3 children and doesnt fancy being in seperate rooms as has been offfered to her by some high street travel agents she has visitied and who have also told her they coundn't guarentee rooms next to one another either. As her children are only 4, 8 and 10 years old this is not acceptable to her and I can fully understand her not wanting her children in another part of the hotel to her and her husband cos I wouldnt have wanted that when my own kids were little. Anway, she has asked me to look around on the net for her to see what I can come up with.

Her children are not the types to join in all the kids clubs but they do like swimming and like all the shows and entertainment usually on offer at such hotels and obviously they want a hotel with decent quality food, snacks and drinks etc available in the all inclusive package. We stayed all inclusive once and vowed never again as the food was absolutely terrible and the hotel was stuck in the middle of nowhere and we ended up forking out for meals in local restaurants as it was so bad. Tjhe drinks too left a lot to be desired and I personally did not find the hotel we stayed was good value for money at all. However, that said you hear people saying that the All Inclusives they stayed in were fantastic and of course that is what my friend is looking for and has a budget of £2000 for a 1 week holiday.

So basically anyone who can reccomend a decent quality hotel for a family of 5 that is all inclusive and has plenty going on that would be wonderful and I would appreciate your comments and suggestions.

By the way my friend would also consider Majorca or Tenerife too so I will also put this post in those 2 sections too - so please dont think I have gone stark raving mad if you see a similar post from me under those 2 threads also.

Thanks.

Sonesta