Hannah West | Family adventure travel | 🏡Brighton UK

If you’ve found us recently, here’s what we’re really all about Hi, we’re Hannah, Simon, Caspar 11 and Otis 9, and we love to travel and adventure as a family. Two years ago, we somehow managed to turn this into our job. We make content for brands and travel companies, while also helping you travel more for less and find fantastic places to explore as a family. Over the winter, we are so grateful that our work has led us to do A LOT of skiing, so yes, our page is very heavy on the ski content right now. But we share all kinds of adventures on here - road trips, camping, UK days out, mini summer adventures, and also how we actually make it all work: the budgeting and finacial side, the schooling on the go, the planning, the packing, and even the health and wellness side. We did some incredible summer adventures last year which you guys loved, especially our summer Alpine road trip that we did mega last minute, and we have so many more planned coming up very soon. So yes, if you love skiing, we do share a lot of that over the winter. But if you’re actually just here for getting outside more as a family, finding adventures that feel possible, and seeing how we make it work around money, school, time and real life, then hit follow. We’d love for you to join us and let us know in the comments what brought you here in the first place? 👇🏼 Love, Adventures of the Wests x #adventuresofthewests #familytravel #familyadventures #travelwithkids #familyadventure

Why do no Brits ski this ski resort? 🇫🇷⛷️ Ok to be fair, we know plenty of Brits people that do ski Serre Chevalier but honestly its so nice to ski somewhere in France that feels like a proper French alpine town, is affordable, not over crowded and such an amazing ski area. This will forever be a ski resort we come back to time and time again. Save this one for later but don’t tell everyone Ski area - 250km pistes lots of north facing slopes and 80% above 1800m for good snow coverage Best for - all abilities, great beginner areas from all of the villages and great off piste and challenging slopes for experts too Price - really afforadable - coffee from 2e, pint of beer from 4e pizzas from X Where to stay - Briancon - for great value accommodation Chantemerle - best for families Villeneuve - for more nightlife, great value accommodation good for singles and groups Monetier - best for couples and traditional alpine charm (and spa-ing!) Closest airports - Grenoble a 2 hour drive and Turin 1.5-2.5 hour drive - more regular transfer buses from Grenoble though 
Any questions, pop them in the comments 👇🏼 #budgetskiing #skigram #familyskiing #skifrance #skiingfrance #winterinfrance #skiholiday #skitrip #skiing #winterholidays #Januaryholidays

Who is Adventures of the Wests? We have been meaning to share one of these since so many new followers joined us (over 50k since last winter ski season). So here’s a bit about us and why we do what we do. We’re Hannah & Simon (plus Caspar & Otis 👦🏼👦🏼) - a family who met working a ski season back in 2011, Simon and I bonded instantly over mountains, travel and adventure, and have been chasing those ever since. When the boys came along, we knew we didn’t want to stop exploring but we also knew travel can be expensive and overwhelming as a family. So we made it our mission to keep adventuring together, finding ways to do more for less, and proving that family trips don’t need to cost the earth. In 2023 we started sharing our travels online. We knew from the beginning we needed to take this seriously if we wanted to turn it in to a full time business so every night after work, we were creating content, improving our editing skills , and spending hours honing our social accounts, all alongside full-time (self employed) jobs and family life. Two years of consistency later, Adventures of the Wests has become our biggest passion, and something we’re so proud to now call our main focus. Our drive is simple: we want to inspire other families to adventure more - whether that’s a weekend camping trip close to home, a long-haul adventure, or discovering a budget-friendly ski resort you might never have heard of. We love showing how to make travel affordable, real and doable, while sharing the honest ups and downs of doing it all with kids in tow. Thank you for being here - your support means everything, and we’re so excited to keep sharing our adventures (and hopefully inspire a few of your own). 💛

What if joy is the plan not the reward Hi, I’m Hannah and I proudly do not have a degree. Coming from a family where EVERYONE else does. Growing up I thought I just had little work ethic and doing what I was supposed to do not what I needed actually caused me to quit uni after a breakdown. But what I’ve realised in reflection is that it wasn’t this at all. It was just that the path that we were encouraged to take in the 90s, or what was expected, just wasn’t what I wanted. I don’t know if every millennial feels this, but it felt to me like life was: get a degree, work a job all hours that you may enjoy a little but it won’t be what you actually want from your life, save most of your money for when you retire rather than live in the now taking the adventures you really want to do, right now. So thankful my mum supported me quitting uni and helped me carve out the life that was actually what brought me joy and I hope I’m building a life that means my kids never even question choosing the same. Doing life exactly how they want to do it, zero rules. Do you feel the same or is it just me? #millennialmum #mumofboys #boymum #adventurefamily #honestmotherhood

How much does a family surf weekend at The Wave actually cost? We stayed 2 nights in a safari tent, Friday after school to Sunday, we all surfed and brought most of our food with us. Here’s the breakdown (without food): Safari tent - £388 (£194 per night - weekend price) Me and Simon improver surf lessons – £122 Boys Play in the Bay – £26 Boys beginner surf lessons – £88 Total = £624 (£156 per person) We had one dinner in the restaurant, about £10-20 each, all other meals Simon prepped before we left. Having beds made, our own toilet, a log burner and a surf lagoon two minutes away, not bad at all for a super fun family weekend. Save this for your next staycation idea and follow for more easy family adventure and camping weekends this summer. Comment WAVE if you want the link to exactly what we booked. PRstay @thewave

We took the kids ‘camping’ but the beds were already made 📍The Wave, Bristol We just spent the weekend at @thewave , perfect mix of chill time in nature with loads of activities everyone actually enjoyed. The onsite safari tents have a kitchen, toilet and log burner inside, and you’re two minutes from the surf. Save this for your next family weekend away and follow for more family camping and adventure ideas this summer. PRstay

5 prep-ahead camping meals my husband made🏕️ We actually had much better cooking facilities in the safari tent at The Wave on this camping trip compared to when we bring our own camping gear, but Simon still prepped all our meals ahead of coming. For a short weekend it saves so much faff, tidying and washing up, so we can focus on enjoying ourselves instead of cooking. Simon is the chef in our house, he cooks all our dinners at home, so we’re super lucky to have him prep our camping meals too. SAVE this for your next camping trip. Want the recipes for all five camping meals? Comment CAMPING MEALS and we’ll send them over. PRinvite @thewave

A day in our lives at The Wave, Bristol 🌊 We just spent the weekend surfing and camping in Bristol, the perfect mini adventure we could fit in without taking any time off school. Mega bonus, I’m from Bath originally so lots of my family still live here. My sister Daisy @muddlethroughmummy and her family, my mum and her husband, and my sister Hetty all came over for the day to hang out. I actually have three sisters… Want the full price breakdown for our family weekend? Just let me know in the comments. This wasn’t our first time at @thewave , we love it here, so when they invited us to stay in their safari tents and surf it was a hell yes. PRinvite

Surfing in … Bristol? 📍The Wave, Bristol Making the most of weekends feels so good. Mini adventures don’t have to be exhausting. This weekend we drove Brighton to Bristol, about 3 hours and picked the boys up Friday after their after-school clubs so nothing was missed. Arriving to a safari tent made it so much more manageable. Less stuff to take, no pitching a tent at 8:30pm after a long day, and proper comforts that make it easier - beds ready made, electricity, running water and even a bathroom and log burner! And we didn’t even leave the site. There was so much to do - little trails for walks, skate ramps, a fab play park, great onsite café/restaurant and most excitingly, a wave pool for the boys’ first surf lessons and bodyboard sessions, plus improver lessons for Simon and me. Hit save on this one so you have it for your next family staycation. This wasn’t our first time @thewave , we love it, so when they invited us to stay in their safari tents and surf of course it was a hell yes! PRinvite

The food we took camping 🏕️ Simon is the chef in our house so he’s in charge of the food shop, the planning and cooking pretty much all our family meals. He’s planned out and prepped our meals for our 2 day camping and surfing trip to The Wave in Bristol. They do have a fab restaurant on site which we will eat at one evening and we’re staying in one of their safari tents so we have some better than usual cooking facilities. However, when we can we like to prep meals as much as possible for camping trips to make the trip feel easier when we’re there. Make sure you save this one for your next camping trip and hit follow as we have tons of exciting camping trips coming up this summer. This won’t be our first time @thewave , we love it, so when they invited us to stay in their safari tents and surf of course it was a hell yes! PRinvite

Pack with us to go surfing in... Bristol?! 🏄🏼‍♀️ 📍The Wave, Bristol Booking little mini adventures like this is what life’s about - yes it’s a lot of effort and pretty exhausting planning, packing, travelling (especially when we’re usually filming the whole thing too) and it would be so easy to go nahhh it’s too much. But it’s ALWAYS worth it. The smiles on the boys’ faces when they stood up on their surfboards for the first time, loads of time in nature, together as a family, camping, and memories we’ll actually remember. Yes it’s tiring - we’ve had so many messages lately saying “aren’t you exhausted / don’t you ever just want to stay home?” and my answer is yes, of course I am. I’m not superhuman. But the payoff is worth it a thousand times over. For me this is what life’s about, making the most of the moments we have to squeeze in as many adventures as possible. Want to see more of what we got up to this weekend? Hit follow for more. This wasn’t our first time here, we love it, so when @thewave invited us to stay in their safari tents and surf of course it was a hell yes! PRinvite

I’m not surprised no one guessed where we were surfing this weekend 😅🌊 📍The Wave, Bristol Everyone said Devon or Cornwall… but we’ve come to Bristol, yes that famous place for surfing 😂 And it’s been the perfect weekend: mini adventures - surfing, cousins, good food, hanging around outside all day, sleeping in a safari tent and just being in nature - our fave. The boys were on boogie boards today (surf lesson tomorrow), whilst Simon and I did an improver lesson, being in nature (rather than the city where we live) just calms my brain and I think thats whats really driving my need to move back to the mountains. Anyone else relate? But weekends like this definitely help. We were kindly invited here thanks @thewave it’s been lush so far.