A FAMILY of seven's week abroad in sunny Europe at a little-known gem ended up costing them less than a UK caravan trip. Jemma Pinches, 37, and Lewis Pinches, 36, were looking to take their five kids down to Devon during the school holidays. They had assumed going abroad would cost a lot more than a staycation.
But with a week in a caravan costing upwards of £2,000, Jemma and her partner began looking for other options. And while scrolling online to salvage their dream of taking the kids away, they stumbled across a fantastic opportunity. For less than a week of caravanning in the UK, the family were able to travel to Kaatsheuvel, in the Netherlands , where temperatures reached a gorgeous 30 degrees.
Read More on Travel Jemma, Lewis and their five children - Jenson, 11, Ollie, nine, Reuben, three, Ada, two, and five-month-old Dottie - stayed at Marvilla Parks, a campsite near the city of Tilburg. On 2 August, the family set off from Worcester to Dover where they got a ferry to Calais, in France. They then drove three and a half hours to their location in the Netherlands, where they spent a week soaking up the sun.
The site, around 30 miles south east of Rotterdam , contained plenty of activities for the family and is just a stone's throw away from Efteling, an enormous fantasy themed amusement par, which the family visited. Most read in Travel Despite entry to the park costing around €50 per person, the fact that three of their children, aged three and under, could enter f.