Warm Holiday with a toddler in march/April

[si_fry]

Getting exhausted doing research on this... We'd like to go away with our 20 month old before she hits 2 and we have to pay her airfare! This limits us to march/April and we went to go somewhere warm enough to swim... Ideally no more than 6-8 hours flight, for 7-10 days. Looking currently at Dubai & Canaries, but neither are filling us with much inspiration right now... Any tips or other ideas?? Thankyou!!

[Fuschia]

All inclusive in Egypt has always been great for our family. Weathers good in march/April and there is scuba diving/snorkelling to be had...

[oimissus]

we would have been older but we always used to go to Sicily in the Easter holidays, beautiful island and the temperature should be nicely warm.

[Browncoffee]

We took our then 20 month old to Sharm el Sheikh last year (Easter holiday) & had such an amazing time. She still talks about the swimming, beach etc. We stayed in a lovely hotel that had a really nice creche/babysitting services which she also loved, so we had a few afternoons to wander around the markets without toddler & pushchair. Highly recommend Egypt!

[craigy]

We did a resort in sharm el sheikh too in Easter

Hols last yr with a 5 yr old and 18 months, all inclusive, great security, lovely weather...

[melbourne groover]

Who did you all book Egypt through? We are looking for a cheap ish hol at Easter with kids club etc!

[katgod]

good luck with that. For my family we are struggling to find anything under ?4000!! But we are 5. Was def cheaper last year. Thompson, Thomas Cook, First Choice. Longwood all have Egypt. And Canaries although have heard weather not reliable in Canaries in March? And Turkey does not really open for beach holidays til mid April - if anyone can confirm that I'd be grateful!er

[melbourne groover]

Hmmm yes, as I suspected, but always worth an ask I guess ;-)

[pommie]

Rhodes in Greece?

[canela]

Canaries depends a lot on where you go regarding weather at this time of year. Islands like La Palma or La Gomera or North Tenerife will be coolish, but South Tenerife is guaranteed to be pleasant and warm - tho not really hot.

we lived there for years, and rent out our old house for holiday lets etc. you can see pics etc at

http://www.spain-holiday.com/rentals/accommodations/properties/12925/San+miguel+de+abona/15/Tenerife/3/Canary+Islands/San+miguel+de+abona.html

and happy to answer any questions. is completely off the beaten tourist track and a little gem.

[jollymummy]

We stayed at the Al Waha, Oman in March 2011. Amazing holiday with our 2.5 year old. Hotel had a kids club, soft play and fab pools. The food was delicious and as I was 32 weeks pregnant at the time I totally indulged. The weather was perfect, about 30 degrees.

http://www.shangri-la.com/muscat/barraljissahresort

[pilsbury]

just to update the thread (i'm missus fry :))

we have decided to book in here http://www.adrianhoteles.com/en/roca-nivaria/ a child friendly hotel in Tenerife, mainly because the flight is only 4.5 hours and because they accept younger children in the kids club - a lot of places we looked at would not accept under 4s...

jollymummy, that place looks really perfect though, will definitely take a look for our next trip!

thanks for all the tip offs, v helpful