Mini Break in July and August and get three nights for the price of two. A weekend break costs £399 for a family of four, including B&B, a day’s bike hire and tickets to the wildlife park. Visit www.theprioryinn.co.uk

Located in Watergate Bay overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on Cornwall’s north coast, the Sands Resort Hotel & Spa is a family retreat full of adventure. Nearby is Adrenalin Quarry – an adventure zone featuring the UK’s longest zipwire

and pools?Huge choice to suit everyoneWhether your family likes traditional beach holidays, rural retreats or action packed adventures, thanks to the thousands of Brits who own second homes in the UK and abroad, there is now a huge choice of holiday home

have become shrines to neoprene. Pretty Padstow pays homage to the local king of seafood, Rick Stein, while Boscastle and Tintagel are enshrouded in history – from Arthurian legends to the great floods of 2004. That’s not to say the action stops outside

that echoed throughout the great hall: he’d got a huge splinter embedded in his hand. There was swift action from a kindly waiter (who possibly was keen to remove both the offending splinter, and the offending child) who took us to reception where first aid