Holiday suggestions

Drew_TNBD

Hey guys,

Wife wants to go away for 4 nights in a week or two. She wants to relax on a beach for some of it, and I'm about as anti-beach as you can get. I don't want to spend all that much money (eating into my GAS fund damnit!!). Less than £350 would be grand! Would consider UK or Europe for a reasonable price.

Any thoughts on where to go? I'm easy to be honest, as long as there is beer.

bertie

Dungeness ?

Drew_TNBD

I'm not afraid to facepalm.
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Actually would be a cool place to do some band photos... but a holiday?

octatonic

Menorca.

It doesn't get the same degree of Ibiza style madness but has the same climate.

You can get out and do stuff there too- we hired a car and went exploring.

It won't be £350- more like £500-600.

I don't know many places you can go for £350 these days for 2 people- maybe Hull.

Go now before we go to war with Spain.

Drew_TNBD

I'd rather go Rome or Venice or somewhere like that to be honest. Not all that beachy though! You can get package deals on lastminute.com for less than £500. Just keeping options open, but it's drawing near!

IanSavage

Barcelona maybe? 

octatonic

I didn't consider any European capital cities as they will be pretty empty in August, especially Rome.

What about Barcelona?

stickyfiddle

Iceland is awesome, and has beaches. Does that count?

octatonic

Or Crete?

spacecadet

Skeggy.

octatonic

Scunthorpe.

Drew_TNBD

^ Wisdom.

not_the_dj

The west of Ireland. Stay in Galway.

ESBlonde

Abandon the beach idea, there are some UK hotels with nice saunas and gyms and pamper rooms which will do cracking last minuet deals and you get all that thrown in. So she gets to lay about and be pampered and you get to visit local music emporiums with the residue of the gas fund bulging from your 501s.

octatonic

Last minuet sounds kinda romantic.

Emp_Fab

Where does she want to go ?

mike_l

My friends and myself usually go to Cornwall.

Always nice. You should be able to find somethinmg in your price range.

My sister like going to Devon, again you shouldbe able to find something in your price range

DiscoStu

I'd go with Barcelona too. Went there a couple of years ago and it was stunning. There are beaches for your missus and loads of bars/culture for you!

Drew_TNBD

Emp_Fab said:

Where does she want to go ?

She doesn't know.

chillidoggy

Oddly enough, I used to be in exactly the same position, except it was my missus that didn’t want the beach holidays, so I sympathise. It did mean I had to put up with no lounging around on beaches for many years, which pissed me off a bit. So we started going to the Dordogne in France, using the Gites, and had some superb holidays there. Peaceful, good weather, and there are usually some man-made lakes around for lounging around on.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

ICBM

Try Normandy. Easy to get to (short crossing from Portsmouth), cheap and there are beaches in the west near Mont St. Michel. Plenty else to do if you like history (old and recent), good food, peace and quiet, and beer . Although don't overlook the local cider, it's fantastic and nothing like the pub crap you get here. Calvados is excellent too... at least I think it was after I woke up .