What are your most important considerations when booking a holiday. I'll kick off-
1. Has to be HOT! HOT! HOT!
2. Has to be within my budget
3. Not too touristy but enough choice of local bars/eateries
4. Nice big pool
5. local flights (if possible)-don't care about times
Warm weather
Local-ish Flights
Air Cond
Not too bustly resort
Good Health care (there's a few places I won't go to incase someone's ill
just one of those daft things I have)
Local-ish Flights
Air Cond
Not too bustly resort
Good Health care (there's a few places I won't go to incase someone's ill
just one of those daft things I have)
1. weather good Enough to lie on a sunbed with a book .
2. within my Budget
3. Plenty of teens around so my boys will be happy .
4. Decent sized pool with a good pool scene . I do like to watch everyone having fun and tap my feet to some music.
5. Not too Isolated with some life within walking distance but dont like things too big and busy .
2. within my Budget
3. Plenty of teens around so my boys will be happy .
4. Decent sized pool with a good pool scene . I do like to watch everyone having fun and tap my feet to some music.
5. Not too Isolated with some life within walking distance but dont like things too big and busy .
Local Airports (Cardiff or Bristol )
Within budget
Plenty to do sightseeing
Choice of local bars and restaurants
Nice beaches
Within budget
Plenty to do sightseeing
Choice of local bars and restaurants
Nice beaches
1 Warm weather
2 Good value for money - not necessarily cheap though if that makes sense
3 Decent swimming pool or preferably pools
4 Nice accommodation, with gardens - preferably not high rise
5 Pretty, attractive resort, hopefully with a bit of character
2 Good value for money - not necessarily cheap though if that makes sense
3 Decent swimming pool or preferably pools
4 Nice accommodation, with gardens - preferably not high rise
5 Pretty, attractive resort, hopefully with a bit of character
1. Flights from Bristol with sensible prices.
2. Good, local restaurants and bars
3. Pleasant walking country and a harbour with lots of boats to watch from a bar when I need refreshment.
4. Dislike hotels so good s/c apartments.
5. Dislike pools since we usually have a very nice blue pool called the Aegean which is big enough if I want to swim.
2. Good, local restaurants and bars
3. Pleasant walking country and a harbour with lots of boats to watch from a bar when I need refreshment.
4. Dislike hotels so good s/c apartments.
5. Dislike pools since we usually have a very nice blue pool called the Aegean which is big enough if I want to swim.
1. Nice warm weather
2. Best month to travel to the particular place (dont want to be stuck in monsoons/hurricanes e.t.c)
3. Nice hotel/ swimming pool/grounds if AI.
4. If s/c or b&b then plenty to do outside the apartment.
5. Good price.
2. Best month to travel to the particular place (dont want to be stuck in monsoons/hurricanes e.t.c)
3. Nice hotel/ swimming pool/grounds if AI.
4. If s/c or b&b then plenty to do outside the apartment.
5. Good price.
1. Good weather
2. Nice apartments, not too big but with a swimming pool and not too far to walk to the resort centre
3. Smallish resort with a nice beach, not too far from the airport
4. History/culture
5. Selection of good restaurants serving local food
2. Nice apartments, not too big but with a swimming pool and not too far to walk to the resort centre
3. Smallish resort with a nice beach, not too far from the airport
4. History/culture
5. Selection of good restaurants serving local food
1. MUST be within our set budget.
2. Has to be hot!
3. Clean, minimum 4* apartment with good pool and pool area.
(Although I don't cook on holiday, we prefer apartments for
the amount of space you have in comparison to a hotel room.)
4. Not in the "hub" of it all, but not too far out either.
5. Plenty of local establishments - don't "do" English bars on holiday.
2. Has to be hot!
3. Clean, minimum 4* apartment with good pool and pool area.
(Although I don't cook on holiday, we prefer apartments for
the amount of space you have in comparison to a hotel room.)
4. Not in the "hub" of it all, but not too far out either.
5. Plenty of local establishments - don't "do" English bars on holiday.
My requirements are different for the main summer holidays & the city breaks, so for the main holiday
1 hot with hardly any chance of rain
2 Within my budget
3 A decent size pool
4 traditional eateries
5 hopefully within an hour of the airport, although I would make an exception
1 hot with hardly any chance of rain
2 Within my budget
3 A decent size pool
4 traditional eateries
5 hopefully within an hour of the airport, although I would make an exception
my top 5 would be..............
A very different culture from ours
Fab scenery
Great shopping
Delicious food in local restaurants
Sun
A very different culture from ours
Fab scenery
Great shopping
Delicious food in local restaurants
Sun
My top 5
1. Must be hot
2. Good pool and even better kids pool with (as Lynwestie says) a "good pool scene"
3. Shops, bars and restaurants within walking distance but not too close to the apartment
4. Apartment rather than room (dont like hotels very much so normally choose SC)
5. Local airport departure (Bristol) with flights in the am
Looking at the list, it seems that most people have the same no 1 priority - heat
Sarah
1. Must be hot
2. Good pool and even better kids pool with (as Lynwestie says) a "good pool scene"
3. Shops, bars and restaurants within walking distance but not too close to the apartment
4. Apartment rather than room (dont like hotels very much so normally choose SC)
5. Local airport departure (Bristol) with flights in the am
Looking at the list, it seems that most people have the same no 1 priority - heat
Sarah
a decent price.
close to good beaches,
nice warm climate,
good variety of bars/clubs/eateries,shops,
good flight times.
percy123.
close to good beaches,
nice warm climate,
good variety of bars/clubs/eateries,shops,
good flight times.
percy123.
good food
good drink
nice quietish accomodation
lots of history
MORNING flights only from a south east airport
good drink
nice quietish accomodation
lots of history
MORNING flights only from a south east airport
Found this really hard to keep to five (so amalgamated must-haves a little bit)
1. Good weather
2. Scenery/history/culture
3. Low-rise apartment in small block + balcony, without a pool (it's all about the sea/beach for me)
4. A nice quietish beach without end-to-end sunbeds
5. Good variety of eateries serving local food
1. Good weather
2. Scenery/history/culture
3. Low-rise apartment in small block + balcony, without a pool (it's all about the sea/beach for me)
4. A nice quietish beach without end-to-end sunbeds
5. Good variety of eateries serving local food
Being amongst the Locals, is also high on my list, I really don't like being in little britain, if you know what I mean.
Small hotel, not bothered about pool
No wall to wall sunbeds
No british or irish bars ( this is a hard one )
Good weather scenery, culture and friendly people.
xx lassi
Small hotel, not bothered about pool
No wall to wall sunbeds
No british or irish bars ( this is a hard one )
Good weather scenery, culture and friendly people.
xx lassi
and we're not anti social ..honest LOL!
Since package hols almost always work out cheaper for us during peak weeks we don't have much choice about being amongst other brits in the apartments/hotels. TBH it doesn't really bother me but we do like to find local bars/cafes off the beaten track and try and interact with the locals as much as we can. This is why we always try and add a few extra foreign words to our vocabulary every time we go. When I first started trying out my newly learned languages I was very self conscious but since we are treated so well for trying I've become much more confident now. Sorry 
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