and there is free buggy hire and baby listening service. And to unwind after day of activity? Try a pampering treatment in the Ocean Breeze Spa or dinner at Jamie Oliver’s nearby Fifteen restaurant. One week at the Sands Resort costs from £686 for a family of four

the schools of fish that swim right up to the villas that are set on stilts in the ocean. A seven-night stay at the resort costs £5,225 in July with Tropic Breeze. Want to read more about the Maldives? see Postcard from Maldives and Desert Island

Sands Resort in Cornwall has introduced a Mums Just Wanna Have Fun break combining spa treatments with childcare! The perfect Mother’s Day gift perhaps? The three-night, half-board break includes three beauty treatments in the hotel’s Ocean Breeze

Located 500 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius is equally famed for sun and surf and sweet breezes. Beachcomber’s Trou Aux Biches is the island’s most sought-after beach resort, a magnificent stretch of platinum blonde beaches

A SPECK IN the Indian Ocean, way east of Madagascar and 1,000 miles south of the Seychelles, Mauritius has always been a classy destination: charming people, outstanding food, gorgeous beaches and clear, calm seas. There are no charter flights

for the pool guys to knock off work and give them a game of footy, while I nipped off for an hour in the spa, one of the largest in the Indian Ocean region, for a silent dip in the outdoor thalassotherapy pool. Other days, I indulged in an Africology massage

, as they shuttled between the two with the friends they’d made. Our room had two huge terraces, an elegant living room open to the sea breezes and no TV – heaven.Nothing was too much trouble. Early one morning, the watersports boys took us to see a colony of wild

Cortez and the Pacific on the other. There’s lots of whitewash andred-tiled roofs, the cool breezes and clear blue sea offsetting the hotMexican colours, and all rooms face the ocean.Thehotel has a children’s club, KidsOnly, for ages four upwards, withactivities