Where can we go on holiday?

One is little, so he wont mind where you go. I would make sure that the journey is as short as possible.

Thank you for such great ideas! There is no other set if grandparents to help out sadly. We do like to support the young folk and don't want to feel resentful and grumpy. I now have a good range of places and options, thank you!

J52 is right. SW Scotland is one of our favourite places. I'd rather keep it secret but am willing for GNers to share this secret. I think people tend to bash on up north rather than turn left after the Lake District.
A wide range of accommodation available and beautiful beaches and gardens thanks to the gulf stream.

We went to Lyme Regis for the first time last year. It was great. It's on the border with Devon and you can either drive or get the bus to lots of lovely places. We also discovered Northumberland a few years ago. That was wonderful too

Depending on where yo live some companies do shorter breaks abroad and if it's short haul 5/6 days is can nice break. Or as someone mentioned a city break abroad four 4/5 days is nice and you still feel like you've had a holiday. Plenty of options.

Don’t forget in a few years time your DGS will be one of those “children everywhere “.

There are plenty of places abroad where you can go just out of season in maybe May or September , not too hot , not too cold. Whereas in the UK you are really taking a chance with the weather . Although maybe at only 1, it doesn’t make much difference yet . I would love to be able to take my 3 (12,10 and 8 ) somewhere warm .

Oh the luxury of 13 weeks holiday a year . My DS and DDiL get 4 weeks each that they usually have to take separately to maximise childcare .

We have this problem as we pick up GC on Fridays and our DS is a school teacher. We went away in the middle of half term and were back in time to do our Friday duty the following week. We have settled on adult only accommodation as we have had some bad experiences of children being left unsupervised in hotels. The other grand parents go to Warner’s in this country, also adults only. We have found that the price of 2person cottages in this country does not go up as much as that for larger cottages during the school holidays.

I wonder if your grandson has other grandparents? Maybe just once or twice a year, he could be looked after by someone else just for a day? Teachers are so lucky that they do not have to arrange child care for the long holidays and half terms, but on the other hand, they can never
have a working day off (unless ill of course!)

If you have him for one day it means you have 6 to go away for short breaks. How about Jersey. It involves a plane journey so you can pretend it’s abroad if that’s important and it is lovely. Interesting too.

North Norfolk is lovely. Plenty of nice places and gardens to visit.

Visit Yorkshire...don't forget Hull. There's coast, moors, dales, history.... you get a bit of everything in God's own county.

(Whatever type of holiday.....) not what my iPad said!

Susanb
Obviously I don't know how miserie you are, but the temperature in Sweden and Denmark is lovely in the summer.

If you look after him, say, on a Wednesday, why not leave for a city break somewhere in Europe (orvwgatevervtypevof holiday you prefer) on Thursday and come home on Tuesday?
Knackering, but nobody is inconvenienced and you can still go in term time.

SW Scotland. The schools have a different summer holiday time and local children go back in the middle of August, so not many locals on the beaches.
Also loads of history and botanic gardens. ( Gulf Stream influences)

Wales..how could you think of any where else .