A weekend VIP family package, which includes bathrobes, bubble bath, teddy bears, board games like Kerplunk and Hungry Hippos, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii is the perfect excuse to visit the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel on London’s Cadogan Square

; and a studio where you can read the news and see yourself on TV. For babies, there were self-contained soft play zones, away from marauding toddlers, with water-filled tubes of colour-changing bubbles.Before we knew it, our two-hour session was up

and seafront splendour, soon fell into disrepair and became better known for its depressing boarding houses, decrepit architectural gems and rowdy pier arcades. Today, while the seaside town retains its fan club of hen weekenders, the city has also become

visited the more adventurous slides with their myriad twists and turns, while Joe received a soaking in the children’s play area. It was quite comical watching as one water-filled bucket would empty upon him, so he’d move to another spot in this water-play