-term breaks and school holidays. If you’re travelling out of season, bear in mind that there may not be many, or indeed any, school-age children there, which will be less fun for a sociable child (or great fun for a child who likes attention from grown

of holidays with a learning aspect or ‘eduvacations’. However, Take The Family suggests parents would need to demonstrate how the holiday will have significant educational elements by submitting a form to show how the trip will tie in with their child

After being Highly Commended as a family-friendly hotel in our recent Junior Design Awards, Atlantis, The Palm is offering a host of fun summer camps to complement its superb facilities, which includes The Lost Chambers aquarium – filled with 65,000 marine animals – and the Atlan...

If your child adores cricket, or spends morning to night with a paintbrush in hand, then you’ll love the nannies you can employ from Holiday Nanny. This agency has 70 nannies – many of whom have a speciality. There are musical, sporty or creative

Set amid the old-style charms of the Cotswolds, Bruern Cottages are the perfect combination of quaint charm and homely luxury. Owned by the Hon Judy Astor, the cluster of a dozen residences were formerly stables, though you’d never guess it by the sumptuous interiors – Colefax An...

If you’re looking to recreate the traditional holiday by the sea, you couldn’t choose a more perfect location than the sunny fishing harbour of Brixham in South Devon. This spacious five-bedroom house, part of Blue Chip Holidays, has stylish

’ Village children’s club. There’s also a wide choice of luxury accommodation and fabulous restaurants. 

The first OurSpace opened at the luxurious Anahita resort in Mauritius and the ratio of carers to children have been carefully considered, with one nanny for every two children under two and one to every three children aged between two and five

In the fifth edition of their excellent guide book Travel With Children, the Lonely Planet team have come up with holiday ideas from toy shopping in Tokyo to riding ostriches in South Africa. They have assembled a global team of parent

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