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Sick of the cold weather, want to get away for 4 or 5 days during half term (middle of Feb).

Any ideas?

Would like to tick most of these boxes:

Quiet

Warmish (Hot would be better, but warm will do)

Sandy Beaches

Not too far from airport (less than 30 mile drive would be ideal)

No more than 3 hour flight from England

Any ideas/tips appreciated.

Bulgarian beach resorts maybe? Eastern Europe would be my first idea, depends on how long the flight is though.

Bulgaria is abs freezing at this time of year.

Think you are going to have head to somewhere on the Med, with those stipulations.

What about the Canary Islands?

Anyone been there?

yep - fuerteventura good for lots of sand. tenerife less so. should be warmish too.  bit more than 3 hour flight though.

Canaries are your best bet. Avoid Tenerife or Gran canaria, go for Lanzarote or Fueteventura.

Bit more then 3 hours but Gambia FTW

Yes Tenerife and Gran Canaria and Lanzarote

If you are taking Jake/family Tenerife is good. The island is split by Mount Teide (volcano extinct). On the one side is the party side of the Island. Gets a lot of sun and is very loud and lively. If however you want something a bit quieter and sedate the north side of the Island is picturesque, green and more temperate as the climate is formed by being in the shadow of Teide

The trip to Mount Teide is spectacular too

Recommended, more than Lanzaratoe and Gran Canaria which are much of a muchness

What Tighty said^^. Been both sides of Tenerife, obviously liked the South side, but the North side is a bit cooler and more relaxing and enjoyed the trip to Tiede.

Theres the Lido, which is a place with 7 swimming pools, jsut for sunbathing around. Think theyre meant to represent each other the Canary Islands or something. Then theres 2 different kinds of Zoos i think, one for like Jungle animals, then another for Parrotts, Sea Lions, dolphins and penguins etc. Main town called Santa Cruz? i think was nice enough too! Should be warm enough at this time of year i expect too.

I'd go here Luabay Los Gigantes
 
Went April and November with the kids aged 8&5

Cannot fault it.

alot better weather than Las Americas/Adeje    

 http://www.luabay.com/en/hotels-tenerife-sur-luabay-costa-los-gigantes.html

Regards

M

Found an airline that flies to the South of Tenerife, is there another airport in the North?

one airport, about 45 mins in a coach/minibus to the other side

There is an airport in the north, but that's just for flights from Spain or the other islands.

Pretty sure theres 2 airports, not 100% though.

Oh, just seen what AndrewT put. Wht they said^

Tenerife North I think is Los Rodeos. The worlds worst air crash was here.

Fly to Sofia South TFS

I've been toTenerife 30+ Times my Old Folks are there now.

I'm going for Easter with Sarah and the girls

Regards

M

skegness

Las Americas is a dump, avoid!

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So in Tenerife where would you go?

Regards

M
 

Benidorm ftw!!

Mallorca is a lot closer and a lot nicer too imo, although maybe not as warm as you want in Feb.

It's a tough one.

Don't want a long flight as it's only going to be for 3 or 4 nights, but really want somewhere warm.

This time last year was in Sydney, perfect weather. Sigh.

Never ever here! Worst place in the world Girgles!

I got reasonable deals for 3 nights in Peurto Del Carmen this weekend and 4 nights in Corralejo in 2 weeks time.  ;)

Been to Gran Canaria before and thought it was terrible.

There's always Malta 3.5 hour flight.

I am thinking about working for the Maltese tourist board.

I looked at Malta, but according to Wikipedia average temp in Feb is 59 degrees. Nowhere near warm enough!

I'd say the canaries is your best bet too, Tenerife is fine away from Las Americas...........

Gibraltar obv!

Peurto Del Carmen - Great resort, ten minutes from the airport.

Pretty sure that's where my mum goes, she likes it a lot..........

Serious question Pleno.

What is there to do in Gibraltor?

I've never even considered it as a holiday destination but I've heard reasonable reports.

Is the night life good there? Are there plenty of young hotties about to look at in the bars and clubs?

Is there a decent bar / club area where you just spend every night or do you have to know what you're doing to find the best places?

I've always had the impression that it was a place for old people but admittedly I had the same impression of Malta before I went there and found out how insanely wrong I was!!

im looking to go away for a week in feb too, and the places with best weather/shortish flights are gran canaria/fuerteventura/tenerife/costa del sol

which one to go to?

Any recommendations?

I'd say it was a fantastic place to live and a decent place to visit.

To live

-Lowest crime rate in the world iirc.
-Really nice weather, 25 degrees most days in winter. Obv next to the sea so a nice breeze too.
-Nearly all acoomodation is realllly nice, like modern apartments, expensive though. This is why there is little crime, only people with decent jobs can really afford to live here
-Prices on other things. Bottle of smirnoff vodka is £3.99, tabs, food etc is really cheap
-Main place is ocean village, huge gala casino, nice apartment complex and then liek 4/5 restaurants, also has a nightclub in complex called Savannahs that is full of 17-21 year old girls gagging for it
-Square called casemates, its a square with restaurants/bars in a rectangular shape where everyone sits outside in the summer and live acts in middle
-Population is 30,000 so tinyyyyy, so really nice and peaceful, however 30 minutes away is Marbella so awesome nightlife if you want to go there, can get limo service direct from Gibraltar
-Great beaches, go on for milessssssssssssss
-Close to africa (like 20 miles) so good if you want to experience different culture
- Gibraltar is 2nd in the world for % of winning poker players online according to PTR. There are lots of pros to come to live here as the standard of living is generally very good. Live however is a different story the live cash games are ridiculously soft and run 7 days a week
-Because of the nice climate (not too hot, not cold at all) and nice scenary its easy to get out and go for a run.

To visit

-The "rock" is really famous and has 2000 monkeys living on it, we get thousands of people coming to see them and they jump on you, play with you etc, they are pretty fun
-If you come here you will probably meet alot of scandanavian girls, who work as customer service for the gaming companies (many gaming companies, betfred, william hill, pokerstrategy etc have their offices here because of the low tax. The girls they hire are usually Eastern European/German or Scandanavian so lots of talent
-Drinks are obviously ridiculously cheap so aswell as taking them away with you you can get absolutely mortal here for pennies
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We were lucky enough to get to El Cotillo, beautiful unspoilt area of Feurteventura it was bliss.
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=el+cotillo&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=Re42TdjnJ5KwhAfnj5muAw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDgQsAQwAQ&biw=1600&bih=839

Sold

Looking at flights now

HOPKIN!!!! flights please!!!!!

I've actually got a mate who lives near Marbella who I try to visit a few times a year. Didn't realise Gibraltor was so close.

Might have to have a drive over there for a night and give it a try.

Sounds pretty fantastic.

Lol.

Ninja'd.

Lol

How long have you been there Peeeeeelowno and how many of the 17-21 girls have you actually had relations with?

(See how polite I am on this family forum)

I've been here 17 days. And 17-21 year olds, 2.

I wouldn't come here for a lads holiday definitely wouldnt go for a week or whatever, but if I went to Costa Del SOl or whatever I'd definitely come for the day. The company I work for have 1% of Gibraltars population so I know quite alot fo people around which probably means that I enjoy the social life more than average Freddy coming over. Whilst I say I wouldn't hugely recommend it for two 35 year olds trying to get into 21 year old girls knickers I wold without doubt recommend it for somewhere to live.

Hopkin's 28.

I pretend to be 28.

We're both minted.

Should be fine.

peeeeeeelono. You haven't been off blonde in weeks. Why are you not out at these fantastic clubs please?

too busy arguing about best footballers ldo

Got work set up with 4 monitors, one is the forums. Anything interesting going on easy to make a post. Party doesnt start till after 12 in Gib. Will see that I make v.few posts on blonde after midnight.

What are you doing out in Gib Pleno?

I'm looking after the interwebs. (Seriously)

Are you like a Gibaltarian greekstein?

Honestly mate, I'd have to kill you. And the one time we did meet you made a good impression, so I'm going to remain silent. On the other hand, if EvilPie were to enquire...

PM ftw

Are you like a Gibraltarian Greekstein?

Feel free to kill me after you've told me. I'll even save you a trip by popping over there.

No one mentioned sharm el sheik? Better than canaries imo

Takes 6 hours to get there though.

Oh, seemed to think it was 4! Nevermind.

Thank goodness you ended with " imo"  if it was free I would never return there. 

rly? - and its funny as I would say the same about Tenerife! - Just goes to show that in part its about the whole package not just the place

Went to sharm couple of years ago i thought it was alright.

Just booked hurghada for a week

We went to near Sharm last summer. If you stay in a 5* place and just want to sunbathe and scuba, it's superb. Sharm itself was a proper dump, wouldn't stay there if you paid me.

Went to Sharm about this time last year with Hopkin + another. (Or maybe the year before??)

Absolutely lovely place spoiled to shit by the annoying f**kers trying to pull you in to their shops.

I know they are just trying to make a living but it was beyond anything I've ever known. Very hard sell and very intrusive.

That's the only reason I would never go back because other than that it was a really good holiday.

As Longines said, if you stay in your 5* hotel it's brilliant.

Also it's more a couples place than a family place from what I saw. Definitely not a place for lads on the pull.

Yep, we left the hotel complex on foot just the once - the shopkeepers saw to that.

Yeah the Egyptians are the worst I have experienced for hassling ppl.

Never been to Tenerife so can't comment.

India>>>>>>everywhere else for pestering little MOFO's begging and trying to sell you shit!

How long is it till half term?

Lanzarote had rain like they had never seen before on Tuesday morning  >:(

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