All-inclusive is a slippery phrase. At a standard resort it means the buffet and the bar are prepaid; the banana boat is still 20 euros a go and the windsurf hire is priced per hour. On a family activity holiday the sums flip: the expensive part of the week is the activities, so the honest question is whether those are included.
What is included on our family weeks?
The activity side is the headline: at the beach clubs, use of the whole watersports fleet is free. Dinghies, catamarans, windsurfers, paddleboards, kayaks and bikes, with instruction on hand, plus beach volleyball, tennis and the pool. Food-wise the clubs include breakfast and several evening meals, so you still get your taverna nights out, which in Greece is half the reason you came.
The arithmetic that surprises people
Price a normal resort week honestly: hire a windsurfer for two hours a day, add a sailing lesson each for two children, add kayak hire, and the "extras" bill passes the flight cost before Thursday. Now run the same week at Lixouri Bay, where a family of four uses the kit all day every day for nothing on top. Included activities are not a perk; they are the product.
Where our weeks sit on the all-inclusive scale
- Lixouri Bay and Stira Bay: all activities and kit included, breakfast plus several evening meals included.
- The Villa Club: self-catering villa with a private pool and hire car, with optional use of the beach club's watersports nearby. Least inclusive, most independent.
- The Alpine Family Club: a catered chalet week with a kids club and a programme of mountain activities.
Every holiday page lists its exact inclusions, and it is worth reading that list rather than the label.
Questions to ask any operator
Four that separate marketing from substance: Is equipment use unlimited or session-limited? Is instruction included or hourly? Is there a kids club or age-group programme, and what does it cost? And which meals are included, specifically? If the answers take more than a minute to find, that tells you something too. Ours are on each holiday page, or compare the options in the family activity holidays guide.
