General Holiday Enquiries, Hints and Tips

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thats what I do pack my day bag the night before.towel, suncream/oils, sunglasses, camera, mobile phone,purse, baby wipes and then nip to the supermarket for a newspaper and bottle of water do it everyday..nothin like that 1st big bottle of cold freezing water or coke for the beach when its starts getting mega hot...I may also get my otherhalf around 11 to nip over to the shop and get me a bottle of cruz campo and more water / coke..or fanta lemon taste batter on holidays than here..cant wait for mine now..benidorm is calling me.. :cheers
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Most time the hotel I have been in breakfast is served from 7am-10am, no I usualy go down around 9:30am, and have found, so do all the other holiday makers in the hotel, this might be due to the very hot weather, and spending that extra hour in bed
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We go SC so we have breakfast when we are all up, which is normally 8.30 - 9am. Sometimes I am up earlier but I wait for the others so we can eat together.
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If I do have breakfast it'll be 8-8.30am. But I find often it's just another reason to eat more than I usually would so I only had a coffee last hol for the second week and managed until lunch. In Egypt last year I found myself eating cake at 8am. So not good. :cheers
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I love if my hotel room has tea/coffee facilities..so i can make a coffee have my 1st ciggie when i wake up 1st thing sit on the balcony watch sun come up over the sea and watch all the spanish power walking and joggin with there doggies on the sea front...thats around 7ish in the morning..love that..
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Breakfast for us is usually about 8.30-9am but by that time i've usually been up for about 3 hours and so I'm strarving and inpatient .

I get up, do the towel run and stay and read my book/chat to other towel runners and sometimes have a coffee with them . My favourite time of the day on holiday.

Around 8 am I'll head back to our room with a coffee for Dave and attempt to wake him & youngest son . The other 2 in their own room have normally been out on the lash and so not a chance of getting them to breakfast with us unless it's a diving day .

sometimes out of desperate hunger I've even gone and had an early breakfast on my own( bowl of fruit & yog) and then a second with everyone else. :D
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As early as I can get away with it with the other half! I never sleep that well on Hols as i am always so excited and want to be off doing things as soon as I can. I hate waiting around, not very patient, so tend to bang around with the coffee cups at first peep of light then announce, oh your awake, have a cuppa its time to go to go for brecci, works every time! :rofl
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I'm self catering and we normally just have it when we get up. Last time we went away we where averaging around half 9 or so :D
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I adore getting up early on holiday and watching as the place comes to life,nothing beat sitting on the balcony(mug of tea in hand) seeing the locals preparing for the day ahead.However we tend not to eat brekkie until around 10ish and it tends to be fresh bread, jam, cheese, salami ~continental really nothin beats it.
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Normally about 1pm. If I'm in a hotel normally the only time I see breakfast is on the last day because you have to be out your room early anyway.

I hate early mornings, always have done.....apart from the getting back to your hotel in the early hours after a number of refreshments, thats OK, its just the getting up again that I hate.

There would be no point in me going to Spain in winter, by the time I got up it would be getting dark :rofl
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On our recent holiday to Egypt, we were a bit later than normal having brekkie, as the other couple that were with us don't get up as early as us. I usually had a coffee on the balcony, while hubby did the towel run, then I met him on the loungers, where we'd have a read until the other pair arrived around 9am.
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It varies. On our French tour last year it was about 1030-11ish...but that is because we would have been up since 8 ish and like to drive a couple of hours and have a brunch in a little aires!!
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we normally go for breakfast around 10:00am :oops: , I don't know why but when we are on holiday we sleep a lot better so early mornings are a killer for us, it might be the fact of all the late nights and too much alcohol :) , this time we are going HB so we will have to be up early for brekky and plus our friends are early risers 5:30am :yikes , and plus this is our first time to Benidorm so I can imagine I will be wrecked when we land back home
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I'm an early bird. On our last holiday we were SC and sharing with hubbys Sister and her fiance.

I'd wake up about 7/7.30ish quickly dress and walk to the shop for the rolls/baguette/milk.

Walk was always lovely, the place was starting to wake, the gardeners were out along with cleaners and pool cleaners.

Time I got back hubby would be awake and have the kettle on.

SIL and her fiance on the other hand were late, we only managed to get them up early twice (on market day)

Helen
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Usually up around 6.45am. Mug of coffee, and then either go for a run or go to the gym, depending on where we are staying. Come back and have another mug of coffee :yikes followed by a shower and brekkie if we are in a hotel, or if we are s/c sometimes we go for grilled croissants and more coffee, or sometimes I don't eat until lunch.
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Tend to have a bit of lie in on holidays, wake about 8am and out of room by 9am. I'm usually in work by 7.30 at home but I don't have breakfast as I can't face eating that early, so on holiday I tend to just wait til lunch. Sometimes when it's really hot though, I just can't face lunch either and that really makes me feel ill, by evening I go beyond hungry and start feeling weird.
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I'm awake as soon as it's light so that can be before 6. Quick bath and ready for breakfast by 6.30. One of the reasons I'm now favouring SC over hotels is they don't normally start breakfast till 7.
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Tend to have a lie in when on holiday so most days miss brekkie as my son and I dont rise till about 10 ish, hubby is usually up at 8, had brekkie and is down by the pool, reading the paper when we get up. At least that way we always have sun beds. :sun2
If we are hiring a car though, we are all up around 8.30, brekkie by 9 and off out by 10.
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It all depends on what time we get into bed the night before. Breakfast will be anytime between 8 and 10am.
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