| When you go on holiday you go with the intention | | | | stay, they normally will be there to check on the |
| of escaping from the stress and hassle of | | | | pool and clean it if necessary. |
| working life, you want the chance to sit by a | | | | The main swinging factor for families is that you |
| swimming pool basking in the sun in peace. This | | | | can all be in one close area, think about it, if you |
| ideal seems in contrast to the typical British | | | | are going away in a group of ten and book into |
| holiday; being crammed into a high rise hotel | | | | one of the high-rise hotels in the tourist towns |
| staging early morning skirmishes against fellow | | | | then chances are you are going to have to pay |
| holidaymakers for prime deck chair real estate! | | | | for two family rooms and a double to get |
| The idea of a holiday is that you can relax, and | | | | everyone in. Add to this cost the fact that simple |
| that's a bit tough when you're stuck in the middle | | | | facts dictate that you are unlikely to be placed in |
| of the masses sprawled out in the midday sun. A | | | | the same part of the hotel this makes your |
| growing trend is to forgo all the crowds and get | | | | holiday not go as smoothly as planned. |
| your own villa. Villa holidays offer a much more | | | | If you're all in one villa then you'll all be able to |
| relaxed atmosphere; normally they are large | | | | congregate in communal areas, eat together if |
| mansion-esque houses that locals rent out over | | | | you have a night in and larger family groups of |
| the popular holiday periods usually accommodating | | | | five or six can all stay in rooms immediately next |
| up to 10 people. | | | | to each other rather than two corridors apart. |
| Villas are good for large family groups or friends | | | | Villa holidays used to be more expensive options |
| and have their own pool, so you aren't going to | | | | in the past but many companies have caught on |
| bump into a rogue lilo when trying to take a | | | | to the trend and now offer cheap holidays for |
| relaxing dip in the hot sun. These villas are | | | | people looking for villa accommodation. With more |
| normally a comfortable distance from all the noise | | | | and more people wanting to set themselves apart |
| of the tourist resorts but well within walking | | | | from the crowds at the usual hotel complexes |
| distance of all the activities. Sometimes the | | | | Villa holidays have become remarkably popular. |
| owners of the villa may be around during your | | | | |