Amazing Bargains on Winter Breaks with YHA – Properly Cheap Family City Breaks!
Loving the new YHA winter offer! You can choose from over 100 hostels, book by 17 November 2013 and stay between 16 September and 13 February… from just £9.50 per person per night! Plus, families booking a family room get an extra 10% off – that means a family of 4 can stay in a private room from just £34 a night! I just tried it out, thinking we could use an overnight stay when we head to Bath’s Christmas Market in...
When LittleStuff Went To France – Les Suvieres Review
So finally, after two days and almost 1,000 miles, we arrived at our villa Les Suvieres, waaay down South near St Tropez. First impressions were great – a long quiet tree-lined drive up an almost unmade track. As the car slowed to a stop we were greeted by a smiling older lady whose English was as good as my French – but we had enough to get by, and the welcome was very warm. After a couple of minutes her daughter arrived,...
When LittleStuff Went to France – and stopped halfway at Ibis Styles.
When those lovely people at Accor heard we were making a very lo-o-o-ng (11.5hr drive) road trip through France, they incredibly kindly offered to provide a stopover half way. Naturally I chose the spot in a very careful and scientific manner – I drew the map on Googlemaps, and plumped for wherever appeared to be halfway on the route… This meant that we were stopping in Bourges! Accor came back and said that the ibis...
September Savings from HomeAway.co.uk
With children back at school up and down the land, HomeAway.co.uk, the UK’s leading rentals site, has some super September savers for those free to go away outside the restrictions of the academic year. September holidays are the perfect way to catch some sun before autumn sets in and at prices lower than the premiums charged during the popular July and August getaway period. Whether it is a week in Lanzarote, a city break in Rome or...
Travel Tuesday – Group Accommodation for big family holidays and get-togethers.
Group Accommodation are perfect for family breaks with toddlers. Many offer lovely enclosed gardens with play equipment, others provide a box full of toys to keep little ones entertained, or a library of children’s DVDs. Many can provide babysitting services or offer handy kids’ equipment such as high chairs, plastic crockery, stair gates, or baby monitors. Others even boast their own on-site woodland nature trails, or...
Visit Manchester – ever considered Manchester for a family city break? You should.
At the weekend my family and I had the pleasure of visiting Manchester for an overnight stay and two fun-packed days of museum visits, eating at great restaurants and shopping! I hadn’t been to Manchester for about 17 years so it was wonderful to go back and explore the city! Manchester has grown and improved so much from what I can remember of it back when I was 18. Everywhere seemed to be clean and well looked after and there was a...