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[quote=Anonymous]Do you want to do this because you’re bored of domestic vacations and want international travel for yourselves, so the goal is just to find something that they won’t complain about too much?  If so, what do you like and what are your goals?

Or is the goal to take them to Europe because you feel like it will be good for them?  I think that’s a harder ask given what you say are their likes and dislikes.  It’s a lot of money to just go swim at a hotel pool or go to  playgrounds …. So Florida keys or Costa Rica or Puerto Rico might all be better choices.  They are great ages for those destinations and would probably really like snorkeling, kayaking in a double with a parent, seeing animals, etc.  We went to Costa Rica when my kids were 4, 6 and 9 and they had a great time.  One of the things we did was take a catamaran snorkeling tour — the cat had a water slide from the second deck into the ocean and the older tow were crazy about it.  If you want another few years, the kids probably will be interested in some European history — they’ll get into Percy Jackson or Six or whatever the next thing is, and you’ll have an entry into something like that, plus they’ll be more at an age for scarcer hunts in museums etc.

But given what you’ve said I guess maybe London?  There are nice parks and playgrounds and the food is fine an accessible. There’s the Harry Potter studios and Harry Potter themed walking tours.  There are some castles with kid focused activities outside the city you could do as a day trip. You can anlsl take a trip up to York which has the city walls you can walk annd a biking museum and an old prison museum each of which might be fun types of museums?  If I did England  I might watch or read paddingtkn or secret garden or some other British themed shows before we went to get them thinking about some places. 
You can get books like Who Was Queen Elizabeth?  Or Who was Shakespeare?

Ireland might be another idea but it’s pretty dreary in April—summer would be better for Ireland.  I think April is rainy in London too though.

I would say southern Spain but Spain is the one place you’ve been with them so msybe not.

No place in Europe will have swimmable beaches in April.

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