Like they would go on a package holiday with Thomas Cook

That ad makes me laugh. Secluded beach? Smiles on the way home? My arse.

When you go with TC, there's always a family of 'Dingles' (the rough lot who have saved for 3 years to have the holiday), who are the first down for their dinner and the loudest when the entertainment is on. Bald dad with the tattooed neck is the first up on karaoke and treats the audience to a tuneless rendition of My Way. Often found on the beach laden with buggy's and bags and beach tents and umbrellas and whatever else they can cram in for an hour by the sea.

There's the Joneses, 2.4 family with kids called Thomas and Alice who think they are better than a package holiday and try to forget they are on one by keeping their nose in the air and wearing rucksacks from Millets and the dad wears sandals and shorts, they do the resort quizzes and often win useless shit like beach towels.

There's the happy couple, the 2 who decide to have a holiday together but clearly do not want to be there and spend most of their time on the sun loungers by the pool scowling at each other under their sunglasses.

There's Edna and Albert, the pensioners who have been back to the same place for years and know all the local business owners (and also think they own the friggin hotel and will be quick to tell you the rules and how friendly they are with the staff).

And NO-ONE smiles on the way home.

Well my husband is often to be found playing football on the beach in a suit when we go away.

It's the norm innit?

Then there's me Karms - on a single  

Thanks Karma, and you want me to go on a plane on holiday ????

But Croc you ain't the Dingles. Your husband has a job and actually wants to work.

One tip, try not to book package and fly out of Gatwick. All package holidays fly out on a Thursday from there (well, they used to), and it's carnage. By the time you get through passport control you feel like you've already been away for a fortnight. Much better (and sometimes cheaper) to book hotel and flight separately.

  Now that I've stopped laughing at the above, I'd like to thank you for reminding the forum to NEVER EVER book a package holiday to E-Beeeeeee-Faaaaaaaaa or Lanzagrotty.

Karma....  Hilarious.... but very accurate

Feck sake Karma 

Happy holidays! 

My sister brought down her friend yesterday because she was lonely, O/T I know, but blimey i would rather sit for hours in Gatwick........she said about every holiday she had in great length

Isn't that the worst? When you go to visit (or even worse, they come to visit you) and they start rambling on about holidays and then the dreaded album comes out.

First 5 or 10 pics are fine and can be quite interesting, but by the time you've seen 231 pics - (150 being of the sea which funnily enough, looks the same in all of them ) you're calling up Death Row HQ asking if there's any cancellations

Karma

For the last 5 or 6 years we have booked return flights to/from Spain for 5, a villa with it's own pool (usually huge - at least two bathrooms) and a car, for about a grand less than a package holiday in a hotel with the people you mention above.

Hubby treats it like a project - he's already researching this year's holiday

Well Karma, i just put Elvis on and said i wanted to have my space, to think, phoned a taxi and said thanks for coming

Nite all. love to blether but working tomoro xxx

Just book it.

Nite Skylark  

So, apart from Rexi's husband, has anyone booked their holiday for this year yet..?

I sound like a hairdresser

He hasn't booked anything yet - just looking

And no, I'm not going out on Saturday night

Oooh good eviction technique!

Rexi, I don't think I could do package again (unless it was back to Dominican or maybe to the Maldives or somewhere like that, 5 star minimum all inclusive jobby), I'd certainly never do Europe. It's an ASBO waiting to happen.

You have a good hubby

Well, I'm not going to tell him that

LMAO..! 

I let my husband book the flights but I choose the destination.  Any other way would lead to madness and divorce.

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So, apart from Rexi's husband, has anyone booked their holiday for this year yet..?

I sound like a hairdresser 

my b/f has had a paper accepted to a conference in Rio so we're looking into that atm

Ooooh, lovely Saz. 
You'll have to practice your Samba-ing and hit the Carnival in March.

It probably wont happen, but its nice to think about it *sambas*