There are a lot of resorts and cruises that provide childcare, is that an option?

I was going to say the same as Sam about New York! Or maybe a city break? xx

Rome or Venice? never been to Rome but H2B took me to venice for my 30th and we had a wonderful 3 days there. its so beautiful...
we have been lucky to find child care for all3 children so we can have a week away though i will miss them all...

The Isle of Wight.

Seeing as you have kids it seems that you don't want to be too far away from them so I am in agreement with the others who are suggesting staying around the UK. There are some beautiful places here. Do you prefer the coast, the countryside or a city? Is there anywhere in the UK you haven't been to but have always wanted to go? Me I want to go to Edinburgh :-)

Thankyou ladies for all your replies. I've been googling today and found a lovely little cottage called bay view in Whitby it's beautiful right on the coast. We can just shut the world out or go on lovely walks. For what it costs we could probably go abroad but the peace of mind of being able to rush back to the kids in an emergency really is a plus point :)

Whitbys lovely - we got engaged at the top of the 199 steps by the abbey. We make a point of going a couple of times a year, it's gorgeous, especially first thing in the morning or in the evening. There's some great pubs too.

If you're going to the magpie, go to the actual restaurant - that's fab, but the takeaway is pants! Xx

Thankyou ladies don't get me wrong I would love a fortnight somewhere tropical but I think a few days together anywhere would be really nice and better than nothing at all and the bay view does look like a perfect x definitely will check out the magpie :) x

Thankyou Tori didn't think of that :)

I love whitby. If you drive there's nice day trips to places like the dales, Scarborough, Masham (2 great brewerys), etc... I love that area

Well bay view is definitely off, they want £775 plus a refundable £250 security deposit for Friday 4pm to Mon 10am. Not too sound cheap but we cud go to Morocco all inclusive platinum resort from Thursday to Tuesday for just short of a £1000 (that's our back up plan and tge one the OH is desperately trying to persuade me into) so back to the drawing board me thinks, feel like my happy balloon has just been burst :(

Have you looked into staying in Scarborough, or a cottage in the dales. There can be some good deals if you're willing to do the research/wait for them. I've seen deals fairly regularly on gr0up0n & travelz00.
Everything is really fairly priced. The Black Sheep Brewery in Masham has a restaurant and the food is delicious and fairly priced.

We used a group on deal for a 3 night break in a spa hotel in Marrakech, only 280 for a 4* hotel plus flights :-)

That's amazing bridalmiss. How far in advance did you book that if you don't mind me asking ? X

We booked the deal in January I think, and we were going in June - just keep an eye on the expiry dates and if your dates come up, do what we did and email reservations to check your dates are available for the deal before you buy the voucher ;-) Living social also have getaway deals too so keep your eyes out - you probably won't see the deals though until around 6 months before you go though - but we thought that was more exciting that way! Hubby originally wanted to take me to Portmeiron for our short break, so glad I spotted the Marrakech deal as the week we went we had horrific rain in the UK and it was 37 degrees over there!