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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
Maybe I am a tad wrong but is it not just as cheap or cheaper to buzz to the Med than stay in GB for a beach holiday?
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Not really, I was looking at lastminute.com a few days before we went and the cheapest that I could find for a holiday for four was £900 and that doesn't include travel to airport and parking. We went to Great Yarmouth for £550 plus one full tank of petrol £60 which lasted the whole trip. Most of the entertainment was thrown in although we did go off the site a couple of days and we took a lot of food with us to keep costs down.
I reckon we'd have spent about £2,000 if we'd gone abroad for a week - £900 to get there plus car parking and food and going out, whereas I reckon it cost about £1,200 to go to Great Yarmouth. The saving is the price of the new bathroom suite that we want so definitely worth doing plus I think the kids probably had a better time than they would have if we'd gone abroad. Add to that the fact that we'd have been stuck in all the airport queues and mess - Great Yarmouth was a wise move!