Quote Originally Posted by Omegstrat6 View Post
It's been cheaper to holiday overseas for years. With our youngest on the spectrum we holiday in the UK as he won't fly and tend to hire holiday cottages but this has only been affordable in the past because he is home schooled so we can get a break during cheaper term times. You can easily pay twice as much in July/August than in May/October for example. There are lots of lovely places in the UK to holiday in but it's not just more expensive in terms of accommodation costs but also time. As someone pointed out, why spend 4 plus hours to travel by car from where I am to get to Cornwall/Wales/North East/Scotland when it takes an hour and a half to Stansted and then 2 more to a holiday in the sun?
If you think you can get from home to holiday in the sun in 3,1/2 hours you are very much mistaken. Obviously it depends on where you live and where you want to go but I reckon to anywhere on the Med then if you arrive at your accommodation in less than 8 hours you have done very well