Family Holidays

Family Holidays

It is not hard to define what makes good family holidays yet somehow the experience seems to elude most of us for at least some of the time. I conducted an informal survey of what most British people defined as being good family holidays. The people that I spoke to were all talking about self-catering family holidays and this is what almost everyone said to me: Good weather
Good food
Nice Accommodation
Clean Accommodation
Reasonably Low Cost
Plenty of Things to Do
Enough Space so that people do not get each other’s feet
Good kitchen
Adequate bathrooms and hot water
Safe area
Good swimming pools

It all made good sense to us for self catering family holidays. We wanted to provide great family holidays. The foundation of our solution was Tenerife Holidays. So what we did was to purchase a really large apartment on a golf course in the south of Tenerife – ideal for family holidays. Tenerife took care of the good weather and food in Tenerife is now excellent for those who prefer self-catering family holidays. The apartments were completed to a very high standard in 2001 and 2002 so it is really is nice accommodation for a family holiday. We purchased good quality furniture (leather sofas and glass topped wrought iron Spanish style tables with matching chairs). We added satellite TV and a video. So far so good we thought, ideal for family holidays in Tenerife.

These self catering holidays apartments have a huge balcony facing the sea and the golf course so we purchased a table and chairs so that everyone could have breakfast and lunch outside and perhaps some evening meals. Then we thought again – this we said is for family holidays so the apartment has got to be equipped for a family. Plenty of pots and pans, crockery, glasses and cutlery – that part was easy. Then we thought about some of our experiences of self-catering family holidays – sometimes there was a bit too much hard work to be done. So we bought a dishwasher. Then we thought about clothes. We hoped that many of our guests would want to stay for two weeks so we purchased a washing machine with a dryer. This way our guests did not have to bring huge suitcases but could still have clean clothes.

Tenerife apartments excellent for family holidays but then we thought about what all of the family would want to do. Tenerife has plenty of attractions including water, dolphin and parrot parks. Then there is the allegedly extinct volcano, Mount Teide, the father of the island. Car hire in Tenerife is remarkably inexpensive (£100 per week) and petrol is about a third of the cost that it is in Tenerife. Tenerife apartments are ideal if you want to play golf - our apartment is located on the excellent Golf del Sur course where you will receive a 10% discount on your green fees.

The apartment is ideal for family holidays with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. A very few minutes away is an excellent supermarket with an excellent array of fresh and cooked meat, fish, vegetable and very cheap wine and beer. Good food is in our view the foundation of a good family holiday.