This has only just become an issue for us as DS1 started school in Sept. This year we're pulling him out for a week to go skiing, but I'm just wondering how other families cope with the high prices, lack of availability, and crowds of peak weeks. So:
- Do you book really early - like a year or more in advance?
- Do you always go back to the same place, thereby getting first dibs on peak weeks?
- Do you go at Christmas, which has availability, but isn't ideal with small DC due to gifts and grandparents, etc.
- Do you think 'Sod it' and pull them out of school for a week?
I'm driving myself crazy trying to work out what we should do in 2014. The peak weeks of new year and Feb half-term are already booked up for places that take early bookings and I'm a bit scared to book SC in case we can't get childcare (which we need for six days for DC2).