including sailing, snorkelling and kayaking. The fun isn’t just outdoors either as there is a brilliant and well-equipped art and crafts room at the hotel. For parents, there are the delights of delicious fruit kebabs, sorbet scoops and refreshing scented

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ginger beer served mid-morning and the fruit sorbets that appeared in the afternoon, while the boys couldn’t wait for the next round of iced towels to be handed out. “This is the life!” became a regular utterance.The resort’s philosophy is built on a

Assumption, they say, is the mother of mess-up. Oh, and what a fool was I to assume that on a long-haul flight with a duration of 11 hours there would be back-of-the-seat in-flight entertainment to keep a five-year-old amused. Instead, there was one

are dressed in luminous colours with an elaborate offering of flowers and fruit piled high on their heads, it’s sure to make a lasting impression. The Far East is wonderful value for money. There are some truly amazing resorts and such great scope

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

children’s clubs and all of them have beautiful white sandy beaches and offer every watersport under the sun.The whole island is encircled by a coral reef but the West coast tends to be more protected, and it’s here that you’ll find long stretches of sandy

child at a local school, and for an extra ZAR 100 (£10) you can tour the community, with the money going towards a fruit tree for one of the local schools, which your child will be invited to plant. Children under six go free, and from January 2–December

eight young orang-utan orphans, who delight visitors twice daily by swinging through the vines to a feeding platform. As we enjoyed the spectacle, however, we were quickly reminded that we were out in the jungle and not in a zoo when a troop of long

. In years to come, they can check on their trees’ progress and, who knows, maybe even pick the fruits of their labour. Later, we continued our journey to Jaipur, driving through bustling villages that were hives of activity. At one point, we were stuck