On the budget side, self-catering works in your favour with a bigger group. Cooking most meals in the caravan rather than eating out as a party of eight or ten keeps costs sensible, and splitting the shopping and cooking between the adults spreads both the effort and the spend. A shared static caravan Tingdene Holiday Parks Limited, or two units booked close together, usually works out considerably more cost-effective than the equivalent number of hotel rooms plus regular restaurant bills.

Finally, read a handful of recent reviews rather than just the star rating. Look for comments on cleanliness, how the caravan or lodge compared to its photos, and how helpful the on-site team were if something needed sorting. A pattern across several reviews tells you more than any one glowing or grumbling comment on its own.

Finally, build in some low-key entertainment for the evenings, cards, a board game, or simply making the most of a park's clubhouse if it has one, so the whole group has something easy to do together without anyone having to organise much. Get the accommodation split and the pace right, and a multi-generational break becomes one of the easier family holidays to plan, not one of the harder ones.

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Booking your first stay at a UK holiday park can feel like a lot of small decisions rather than one big one, so it helps to work through them in order rather than all at once.