through a three hour nature documentary. A trip to the cinema should be an adventure for the whole family so try to choose a showing that will appeal to your children and keep everybody interested and entertained all the way through.3. Don’t go overboard

WALL - E (U) Human beings can be a mean old bunch. Having cluttered up the planet with all their junk, they’ve escaped on an enormous spaceship. Meanwhile, poor little WALL-E has to clean up the mess, crunching the junk in his tummy and popping it back out in neat cubes. But this...

Children are going mad for Madagascar as a result of the marvelous movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. So take them to the home of Alex the Lion and Gloria the Hippo on a family-friendly cruise with Costa Cruises, sailing from Mauritius

.The Victoria Secrets tour takes in the Great Ocean Road and the rainforests of Great Otway National Park and costs £1,595 for a family of four, not including flights.Tel: 020 7483 6555; www.bridgeandwickers.co.ukCheck out the rest of our Travel section for more

Mirror Mirror (PG)Snow white movies are a bit like buses. You wait ages for one, and then two come along at once, but while Snow White And The Huntsman, starring Twilight starlet Kristen Stewart as the eponymous heroine, promises to be a darkly

-haul flights, most airlines provide on-board goodie bags with a mix of comics, games, sunglasses and toys, which usually go down well, as well as family movies and children’s channels on the in-flight entertainment. Consider buying a seat for a child under two

Lots of hotels have a children’s club that is run either by hotel staff or by childcare reps from family tour operators, such as Powder Byrne and Scott Dunn. Those run by tour operators are usually only available in peak season, like half

hamper for four and tickets for both the London Eye and a top family show. Children are treated like mini VIPs receiving complimentary slippers and bathrobes, a toy box, access to unlimited children’s movies, and milk and cookies at bedtime. Experience

of other famous scenes from the movies, including the set of Mos Espa, where the pod-racing sequence for The Phantom Menace was filmed, and the Yardangs, the wind-abraded ridge where the Jedi duel between Qui-Gon and Darth Maul (also in The Phantom Menace

Chateau Lake Louise, which guarantees the whitest of Christmases. There are plenty of diversions within the luxury confines of the hotel, including family movie screenings, decorating the Chateau’s Charlie Brown Christmas tree, decorating Christmas