The Thai Culture Experience by Surreal Holidays is a 12-day trip that takes you from Bangkok to the beautiful beaches of Phuket, with a variety of other interesting places in between. After being greeted by your personal guide, you will visit

Visit Cuba before it becomes just another holiday destination. The Adventure Company has early booking discounts and half-price child places on holidays, such as the Viva Cuba 12-day family tour which includes Havana and the Bay of Pigs. A discount

villa on Hamilton Island. The tour costs from £1,230 per person, based on a family of four sharing. Visit www.wandotravel.comLook at our article Luscious landscapes Down Under in our fantastic Long-haul travel section. 

, but the limpid waters off Anantara Si Kao have their own population of dugongs, as they’re known here. Families can watch these gentle creatures from a boat or snorkel close to them. A day out including the boat trip, a picnic, snorkelling, kayaking and a nature

in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, activities include pastry-making, kite-flying, garland-making and pitch-and-putt; the Rasa Ria also has an orang-utan orphanage where children can be a ranger for the day and help tend for the baby orang-utans; while the Rasa

and was delighted with the great nods of approval from the waiters. It turned out to be quite handy that Joe had made some local friends. On our last day, he managed to lock himself in the toilet and one of the more nimble waiters had to squeeze through the tiny

for adventure holidays, from exploring the Great Wall of China to visiting a Thai hill tribe.Explore’s family programme includes China, Thailand and the 16-day Indonesian Volcanoes and Dragons Schooner Adventure, centred around nine nights aboard a traditional

to apply sunscreen. We bought long-sleeved T-shirts for extra cover and tried to seek our shady spots whenever we could, but still ended the day with a pink tinge.Next day, we were up early for our third theme park in three days. Gazing out of the window

and goats trying to make a bid for freedom. The scene was played out to a cacophony of beeping horns – clearly in India indicators are for wimps. “You need three good things to drive in Delhi,” our chauffeur told us. “A good horn; good brakes; and good luck

-blue water with Moorish idol fish, blotched groupers, orange-lined triggers and parrotfish, which scrape their beak-like mouths noisily against the coral. Another day, we drove up into the mountains where locals were out in droves picking guava – the exotic