1. Choose your festivalIt might have been dubbed as “Three Days of Peace & Music” but turn back time to theWoodstockheyday of 1969 and you’d find the festival spirit steeped in a hazy mist of marijuana and zonked-out grown-ups. Not so the new breed

 Winner of Best Family Festival 2011, Beautiful Days is the Levellers festival. Celebrating its 10 anniversary, this is a family music festival with six stages, site art, a huge children’s area in the centre of the festival, co-ordinated by Majical Youth Theatre

food. Children under 12 stay free if sharing parents’ room. B&B prices start from £69 a night.For more fun festivals to fill your summer days, check out our Festivals Listings 2011.

of the Staffordshire Peak District in the village of Alton (and yes, if your children want still more fun take a day out at Alton Towers). From £264 for three nights.To find out more about fab summer festivals to fill your summer, check out our Junior Festivals Listing.

you can get breakfast in bed. What it costs Adult weekend with camping £97.50; children 6–17 years £36; under-fives free. Day tickets also available. Extend your stay If you’re festivalling with friends, continue the party at the Old Rectory, a ten

in every medium, and the children’s programme, Hay Fever, is an integral part of the ten-day event. “It’s a golden age of children’s literature: never before have there been so many extraordinary writers across every age group and genre,” says Peter

at family-friendly Woolley Grange near Bath with activities for the children and babysitting and pampering for you. One night’s B&B for a family of four costs from £225. To find out more about fantastic family festivals to fill your summer, check out our

, Chipmunk and The Saturdays to ensure that the day lives up to it Super Saturday title! The event is taking place in support of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, with Team GB athletes on hand to demonstrate Paralympic sports, such as wheelchair tennis

Saturday night comedy show (with no swearing!), comedy workshops plus James Campbell, the children’s stand-up comedian du choix. Where to stay On-site camping in tent or camper van (£15). Or stay just down the road at the very swish Crab Manor hotel in a

Blondie, ABC, Mark Ronson, Eliza Doolittle, The Wonder Stuff, Miss Dynamite and more. For the kids The Kids Gardens host storytelling and fun workshops, and the Circus Field has performances by Mr Tumble (again) and Zing Zillas. Children love the parade