When you go on holiday you want to have a good time, right? You want the food to be delicious, the weather to be fabulous, and your accommodation to be clean and comfortable. You wont have control over the weather, unless you make silly choices as to destination. For example, if youre looking for sunny beaches, dont choose Scandinavia in the winter. You certainly can have some control over the other two.
Both all inclusive and self catering holidays have their pluses and minuses. Either can save you money. On self catering holidays you are responsible for your own food, either making it or going to restaurants, and you are responsible for the state of your accommodation. Dont expect to come home from a long day at the beach to find your room in tip-top shape, unless you left it that way yourself.
At first all inclusive holidays sound fabulous. Free drinks. Food all taken care of. Maid service. Well¦.sometimes this is good and sometimes its not so good. Lots of holiday travelers who have stayed in all inclusive accommodation report that the food was either bad or cold. Or that all of the meals were buffets or that there were limited hours as to when food was available. If you sleep too late in the morning and miss breakfast well then youre just not getting any.
There are many luxury self catering accommodation all over the world. Most of those seem to come in the form of cottages and villas (even the word villa sounds luxurious, doesnt it?) There are also many self catering establishments all over the world. To book either one, the best idea is to get online and find a few in the area that youd like to go on holiday. Then read online reviews. People who write online reviews have nothing to gain by giving accommodation either good or bad reviews so, for the most part, you can trust them.
The best option is simply to ask friends. Surely you have friends who have gone on both self catering and all inclusive holidays. They will have general impressions about both. But they will also most probably have some suggestions as to specific places that you might want to stay in both categories, because they have been there themselves.
