lagoon-shaped pool.There’s a spa, a children’s club – designed by interiors specialist Linda Barker – an adventure playground, water sports, volleyball, tennis and a fitness centre. There are also hiking trails in the nearby National Park. While August

am to 10pm, the club has its own huge colonial-style building and activities include treasure hunts, snorkelling, picnics, sports, hikes, pony rides and fashion shows. Turquoise Holidays is offering seven nights in two Colonial Garden View Rooms from

Costa RicaPowder Byrne Air & Space adventure programme in Costa Rica has just been launched.Tailor-made to meet your needs, you can put together an exciting itinerary of boat trips, tropical forest hikes, ziplining and kayaking.Prices start from £2

A bustling metropolis between glorious mountains and the vast Pacific Ocean, Vancouver is perfectly placed to provide a great family holiday. Go hiking or cycling, whale-watching or shopping, and you can’t miss a visit to the huge Chinatown

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