Holiday destinations for the accompanied traveller

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

On home soil. Magical lough gur tonight

[Mac]

@Juhniallio or @backinatracksuit can you bump or link your London suggestions posts for me? Thanking you

[Juhniallio]

@Juhniallio

Here’s my thoughts.
Book everything in advance. Looking at the queues for people who aren’t prebooked on stuff is mental. No way we would have waited. So all the free museums and galleries etc. Book them. We were at the natural history museum today. Queue for non booked was about an hour and a half. Its very good, a great freebie one.
You’ll need the freebie ones, cos everything is expensive…
There’s bundles you can do for attractions. Eg, the london eye + tussauds. London eye + tussauds - sea life etc… look them all up. They save you a fair few quid. We did eye + tussauds. Tussauds was a big disappointment. It was absolutely jammers and to be honest our kids have no interest in waxworks of little mix or extended royalty etc… having said that the 3d marvel film was good but its 8 mins long and hardly worth the fee.
I’d do eye and london dungeons. Did it about 13 years ago and the kids we brought loved it. Great craic, interactive loads of scares. Eye is great if they haven’t done it before for giving a feel for london. They’ll spend so long on all the tubes going places its hard to patch it all together and the eye is at least 30 mins of pure calm looking at it. Ours was 45 mins cos it broke down…
Today was a great day. We were in the natural history museum (right beside science museum too) and then hit hyde park. Sunny, lovely to wander around and then rented a pedal boat on the lake. Great craic. Also brilliant for our young lad to have a place to run around. He’s 8 and doesn’t particularly suit wandering round a city for days.
Also camden market and that area is a cool hustle/bustle feel for them. Not sanitised at all. They loved it.
Decide when you’re gonna eat/drink/lunch/dinner out and do it smart. An accidental drop into an expensive pizza place when all starving could cost you a fortune. Loads of cheap lunch/takeaway options etc if you look about. We did at least a meal out every day and they are generally irish prices but in sterling.
Let the kids take ownership of travel/tube navigation. They’ll love it. Think @binkybarnes said it and he was damn right.
As i said earlier, the Harry Potter thing was magic. Let me know if you’ve any specifics.
Where are ye staying?

Cc @Mac heres mine. Go up to that post and there should be one or two others before and after. Trackiw is after. @binkybarnes and a few others gave me good advice before we went too around jan/feb

[backinatracksuit]

Sorry mate, I don’t think I had much advice to give,
It’s a great city, lots to do, we only scraped the surface in 6 days

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

The Clare Riviera is in great nick today. Mcganns Doolin still do the best fish and chips in the country

[cowpat]

In Tarifa. I’d say the weather is better in West Clare…
Though the Mark Wahlberg Brad Pitt lookalikes put the lobster colour Irish head to shame

[artfoley]

Lads, anyone done a family holiday in ephesus, turkey?

Any tips

[Pirlo]

Watch Swimmers on Netflix. They went through close to there.