Somewhere hot. In June. With kids.

Wanted: holiday destination, local or international, for me plus two kids (aged 10 and 7) for 10 days or so in June.

Requirements: Two bedroom apartments/units/whatever. Resort-type accommodation. Pool or near safe beach. Preferably with cheap babysitters/kids club included. I just want to be warm, let the kids play, and rest.

Needs to be (relatively) inexpensive - preferably $3-$5K total (including flights and accommodation and food if possible).

Oh and yeah - food. DS1 is gluten free and neither of them eat chilli, curry or nuts... dietary issues are hard to manage. So somewhere that has the option of Western style cuisine would be fabulous.

Last thing: must have alcohol available. Preferably in copious amounts. Delivered by a pool boy to my cabana. Oh the dream....

Until I saw your budget I was going to say Hawaii (but you might win lotto, so it could be a possibility) they love kids there, it's hot and, you can get as many poolside drinks as you want.

We went to Port Douglas in November. It should be nice this time of year. The place we stayed at had an amazing pool but I wouldn't recommend it if you have escape artists living with you (as we found DS2 playing in the pond out the front at 2am one morning) and I don't think they have a kids club.

Have you thought about Fiji? I think most of their resorts have kids clubs.

I would definitely recommend Hawaii. Maybe you can find a deal? My gf is visiting ATM for work and it sounds amazeballs. And the food is very varied.

Fiji. Definitely. Ticks all your boxes. We stayed at the Outrigger on the Lagoon near Sigtoka, on the big island. Varied accommodation styles - we had a bure on the beach front as it was our honeymoon but we have since looked at and priced a three bedroom villa. They do great package deals. Heaps for kids to do including kids club and nannies. Heaps of swimming available. Heaps of alcohol available.

And an amazing day spa - so worth a visit for relaxation.

ETA - you will struggle in Aus at that time of year. You need to go north of Brisbane and even then I've been to cairns in July and we still had long sleeves at night - we just aren't close enough to the equator. Go O/S.

Port Douglas is a pretty awesome place, though you'd have to research the kids clubs/babysitting ect because I went on my own without kids or hubby! But it's a beautiful destination with plenty of beaches, the Daintree and Great Barrier Reef all with in stones throw.

Colleague of mine just got back from the Cook Islands. Looks great!

Fiji-shangrila kids stay and eat free. They have wide range of foods.

I know someone who lives in PNG ;)

Our boys loved Thailand. Lots of rice based foods (is rice gluten free?). It's cheap and hot. Dunno about sunny. If it's the wet season it might be more monsoony than sunny.

Fiji Warwick Resort and Spa. Pay set price and all food is included. 3 meals a day. Buffet Style. You pay for alcohol though. We had endless drinks served to us by the pool, in the restaurants and up at the sunset bar and at the end of 10 days our bar tab was just over $200.00 AUD. It also has a couple of restaurants in the resort if you want to spice up the menu and the Seafood Restaurant is to die for. Yum. Its over the water with a sand floor. We went on our honeymoon in May and perfect swimming weather everyday. It got warmer by the time we left. They have kids club too. The Fiji Naviti is the sister resort 5 minutes away and is very family friendly. As we were on honeymoon we wanted somewhere quiet but there were still plenty of kids around. The resorts have a shuttle bus between them every half hour I think so you can go between the two. Our honeymoon cost us just under $4K with flights included from Adelaide. Cant wait to go again. Its right on the beach, which is like a lagoon very calm and perfect for snorkling etc and has two pools.

Fiji! They have lots of places with kids clubs, we went to Sonaisali but the Shangrila was next on our list. All our meals were included, the kids had a ball in the kids club and we want to go back. We needed a nanny for our younger too to join the kids club as they were under 4 but it was super cheap about $5 an hour.

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Fiji. Definitely. Ticks all your boxes. We stayed at the Outrigger on the Lagoon near Sigtoka, on the big island. Varied accommodation styles - we had a bure on the beach front as it was our honeymoon but we have since looked at and priced a three bedroom villa. They do great package deals. Heaps for kids to do including kids club and nannies. Heaps of swimming available. Heaps of alcohol available.

And an amazing day spa - so worth a visit for relaxation.

ETA - you will struggle in Aus at that time of year. You need to go north of Brisbane and even then I've been to cairns in July and we still had long sleeves at night - we just aren't close enough to the equator. Go O/S.

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i was going to say outrigger in fiji too.

Whitsundays
Coffs Harbour
Townsville
Fiji
Hawaii
New Caledonia

Hehe at Zazou idea of PNG that would be a cool holiday!

Go on a cruise

If you come to my place I will turn the heat up to maximum for you :p

For you Singapore is a must! Heaps to do for the boys and its only a short car trip into Malaysia for day to go to lego land. Lots of resort type hotels, day spas,civilisation, perfect all round

I'm on hamilton island at the moment and it has been great for DSD and us :) leaving Sunday morning, but could easily stay another week :)

Subbing. DH has time off in June and we are considering going away.

Cairns/port Douglass is beautiful at that time of year. But yeah you will get chilly nights (15 ish) but days are around 25/27 average. PLUS if you came up here you get to visit MEEEEEE

Divvy check out First Landing in Fiji - I didn't stay there but did have reason to visit. They do nice food and it is the most gorgeous quiet beach front location. There are beautiful bungalows or a variety of other options for accom and I am pretty sure they have a swim up bar - definitely service to your cabana! Very good prices too with breaky included in fees.

I've just been drooling over fb pics friends of ours just posted from the Cook Islands. Looks AMAZING! Their kids are aged 9, 7 and 5 and apparently all are having an absolute ball.

Going to suggest Fiji.

Due to slightly complicated booking - part payment last year for holiday which had to be cancelled (and got credit notes rather than refund) and part payment this year and 100% airline being asses in relation to how we could use their credit notes (which made this years flights way more expensive) even the travel agent was astounded as to how *******y they were - I can't say exactly how much it would cost - but roughly guess round the $5/6K mark - we have got 6 days in Raddison Denarau with brekkie and 5 days in Mana with half board and flights/transfers. Staying on mainland rather than going to Island way cheaper. Our "room" in Raddison has cooking facilities too which means you don't actully need the brekkie option which would make cheaper still. Our price was also for 2 adults one child so yours should be cheaper being only one adult.

We're going 1st May which should be in same 'season' as June and are happy with deal. Friends have been to Raddison before and have loved it and Mana has apparently been updated/renovated recently so hopefully all good. Will find out in months time!

HTH x

THanks for the recommendations girls, keep them up.... lots of ideas for me now!

first landing is nice...but i spent too much time there out of necessity and would much prefer to go somewhere else....BUT they do have beachside bungalows with spas overlooking the islands: and the lobster mornay is AMAZING!!!! food is incredible there. ohhh the kokoda!!!

Fiji or Vanuatu. Anywhere in the South Pacific really. We stayed at Lomani resort in Fiji as part of our honeymoon. That one is adults only but it's next door to Plantation Island, which is a family resort. I'd check out TripAdvisor for reviews of places.

Club Med Bintan. Simply amazing for parents and kids! Upgrade to a terrace room for a little more luxury. We've done our fair share of high end (and budget!) traveling and this place really surprised us. Would happily return except that Club Med Cherating is on the hit list this year :D

It will be summer in Europe. You could cruise in the Greek islands.