Thank you for your all advices, indeed! I will check on all suggestions, but to be honest we have made up our mind for now – we will try Sunpark in Holland, we just have to wait for last minute prices for our holiday date! I am already getting excited, as we never went on holidays with my hubby further than Scotland, and hopefully it will be great fun.

Hi Toja, you can go to France and stay at a Siblu holiday parc from as litte as £267, with Dover to Calais ferries included. Of course, you need to add on the cost of petrol and tolls to drive from Calais, but all of this can be found on the website viamichelin.com. You will need to take into account food costs too, but it's very reasonable to self cater in France. If you go to a holiday parc, most of the facilities - pools, kids clubs, sport pitches, entertainment - are free. Hope that helps, you can see more on www.siblu.com

Do not go to Ireland if you are on a budget. It is horrifically expensive. We have just come back from a family wedding and were shocked at how expensive it was - and I should know better, as my whole family live there and I was there previously in August. An additional problem at the moment is the strength of the Euro, a couple of years ago you would get 1.4 euro to the pound, now it's almost parity.

Your budget. We managed it v cheaply but that was without food or accomodation. Sorry, but you asked
Hope you find somewhere.
If it makes you feel any better our trip this year was to Wales....we're saving for another holiday year after next

Ireland? .....not strictly abroad but felt very different there for us.

Agree, the Netherlands is very family friendly and I've always had lovely times there. We didn't mamnage to even find out about indoor activities (stayed with friends) But, we wrapped up very warmly. Take lots of layers and thick coats if you do go.

My parents always seem to manage to get amazing deals with Canvas Holidays and Eurocamp to France and Italy, even with fly-drive.

This is where we are going:

http://www.eurocamp.co.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=Campsites.ResortOverView&ver=1&Mastercode=4 3

We are going to Holland in April with Eurocamp, £185 inc ferry.

we did the cheapo crossing toja (Dover-Calais)-whole journey took us about 10 hours from London but we did tootle a bit. there are sites a bit nearer tho- we wanted to go to Amsterdam which is why we picked that one. As for indoor stuff, there's a bit called "indoor beach" or somesuch but we didn't have a look. There's an indoor swimming pool bit which is fun for littluns- (tho a bit boring for older kids according to ds 12- not enough slides!) but you might get cabin fever after a couple of days!

...there are lots of cosy things to do in holland in the winter- mostly involving drinking hot chocolate with whipped cream ...don't know how happy your ds would be with sitting around tho!

CitizenPrecious, thank you for veyr very useful information! That might be something what we are looking for! Especially if you could go to Amsterdam easily. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind asnwering: 1) where the ferry goes from? 2) are there enough indoor facilities (especially for a small child) taking into account that it will be winter time?