Holiday where we can be child free for a few hours?

Hello,

Not sure this is the right place for this...

We're looking for a holiday place where we can leave our two girls, 2 and 7 (both HFA), in somebody elses capable hands for a few hours. We were thinking somewhere like Butlins, Pontins, Centre Parks, etc, but so far as I can tell none of them are really able to deal with autism, even on the mild end.

We'd like to go away over the Easter weekend or something, or just for a weekend, we've never been on holiday as a family other than my inlaws in the US owing to the immense upheaval it causes (tried camping once, OMG) and needing a holiday afterwards to recover. My own family are unsupportive so we cannot rely on them for holiday help. If we could get somebody to give us a break...!

Can anybody suggest somewhere? It needs to be UK, preferably near a beach, and not costing £100s/week (which I realise maybe a contradiction given our requirements). Both kids receive high rate care if that helps.

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  • We've had a previous run in with social services when somebody made a malicious complaint, they were rude, badly informed and never apologised for turning our lives upside down. We don't want them involved again. Besides, our girls our 'only' HFA, not like they're head banging or anything and I think the CDC tried to get us respite before and the answer was they weren't "disabled enough".

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  • We've had a previous run in with social services when somebody made a malicious complaint, they were rude, badly informed and never apologised for turning our lives upside down. We don't want them involved again. Besides, our girls our 'only' HFA, not like they're head banging or anything and I think the CDC tried to get us respite before and the answer was they weren't "disabled enough".

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