Category Archives: Tips & ideas
Meeting in the middle: it really is fun to stay in the Y-H-A
So here’s the situation. Close group of friends from grad days in London now all grown up and dispersed inconveniently around the country (from Northumberland in the north to Sussex in the south). Desperate to meet up but can’t bear … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation reviews, Tips & ideas, UK
Tagged group holidays, Thurlby, YHA
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To kids club or not to kids club, that is the question
Whether to use kids clubs on holiday often divides opinion of families with young children. Some are guilt-wracked at the idea of abandoning their offspring during precious time together. Others see organised childcare as an essential ingredient of a trip … Continue reading
Confessions of a Club Med virgin: La Palmyre resort, France, reviewed
Club Med’s La Palmyre resort, on the Atlantic coast of France between La Rochelle and Bordeaux, may not be perfect; but I can safely forgive anything that didn’t work on account of the many things that did, says Trunki Files … Continue reading
Posted in Accommodation reviews, Europe, Tips & ideas
Tagged Club Med, Family holidays France, Kids clubs, La Palmyre
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A high five for the Legoland Hotel
It has to be said that my relationship with the Legoland Hotel did not get off to the best of starts. Like many young boys, my son, Leo, is a Lego fanatic. My wife and I knew taking him to … Continue reading
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Tagged Legoland breaks, Legoland hotel, Legoland hotel review, UK days out
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Now we are five
All change at The Trunki Files. As of 21st June 2014, our travel-friendly family-of-four has become a travel-awkward family of five. Yes, the arrival of third child, Rufus, will be the biggest upheaval to our travelling life since Leo started … Continue reading
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Tagged holidays for 5, holidays with 3 kids, Periyali Villas, travel with 3 kids
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The Trunki Files Guide to days out on the Isle of Wight – for around £50
Now I’m back from our first holiday as a family on the Isle of Wight (IoW), I can’t believe it took us quite so long to go there. The attractions are obvious – particularly if, like us, you live in … Continue reading
The Trunki Files 2014 Hotlist Part 2: The UK
Perhaps now, when Brits are still sodden and weary from another terrible winter, is not the best time to be extolling the virtues of a staycation. But we have to believe the weather will get better and that another scorching … Continue reading
The Trunki Files 2014 Hotlist Part 1: The Med
As regular readers of the Trunki Files will know, I spend an awful lot of time – too much time – researching places to take my family on holiday. And when it comes to our annual summer break in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agro Can Gall, Casa El Sequer, Caserio del Mirador, Mousses, Periyali, Pine Cliffs, Quintassential, Xaymaca
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If it ain’t broken… Why we went back to Periyali Villas, Zakynthos
When it comes to holidays, my wife and I have never quite understood ‘returning types’. With three Geography degrees between us and a hunger to score new cities and countries on the ‘where I’ve been in the world’ chart, we … Continue reading
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