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of Ted Bentley Chalet Holidays, is joined to Verbier, while La Rosière, featured by small specialist operator Morealps, connects to La Thuile in Italy. The Massif des Aravis in the French Alps is only an hour’s drive from Geneva airport and has four

, the lovely botanical gardens at Port Louis, or a working sugar mill. But essentially, Mauritius offers a lazy, pampering beach holiday.And with the array of upscale hotels available here, you can sit back and relax whilst your children develop their outdoor

of the plane journey is sheer bliss. Barbados is a good place to start if you’re exploring the Caribbean for the first time or taking your first long-haul family holiday. It’s straightforward to get to; it’s highly developed, with some of the best family hotels

. These ships are particularly good when it comes to catering for active children as they also feature climbing walls, mini golf and, on the three newest vessels – Freedom of the Seas, Liberty of the Seas and Independence of the Seas – there’s even a water theme