, as well as three restaurants and a gelateria with home-made ice creams. The children’s club is free and there’s also private babysitting for babies and toddlers. Seven nights in two interconnecting deluxe rooms for a family of four costs £6,700.Tel: 01488

The five-star, all-suite hotel, Porto Sani Village & Spa, has a Baby Food Package, including fruit juices, baby ice creams and cookies. Baby bath tubs and sterilisers are available on request. The neighbouring Asterias Suites have a Baby Room

. It was a first visit for the whole family to the city that floats on water – a city which, for me, had been a collage of clichéd postcard images and corny ice-cream ads. Yet, in reality, there is little that is clichéd about Venice, and catching a glimpse

bounds until the pool man came and removed it. Being fair-skinned, we would also have liked more shade to go round than the two parasols provided. Suzy, our villa host, was very attentive, buying train tickets, bringing ice cream and wine every time she

. For four weeks in summer, from around July 20, you can indulge in a semblance of beach life at Paris Plages, when the riverside thoroughfares are transformed – expect sandy stretches, deckchairs and ice creams. Joe probably had the most fun when we trekked

with an ice cream while children bowl up at the tunet (covered stalls filled with Viking craft displays) to hammer out pieces of silver jewellery or paint a shield. Eleanor and Lloyd spent an hour carefully following dragon stencils and painting their names