resort, and if you are looking for stylish luxury combined with a laid-back vibe, it’s already hard to beat. There’s a 38-room ocean-front boutique hotel and holiday villas set in lovely landscaped gardens with a lively village square at its heart where

Clermont Ferrand, is also a great day out. Accommodation at Auvergne Naturelle is in a luxurious yurt, with plenty of activities from woodland crafts and fire-making to gentle wildlife walks and a visit to a delightful fairy garden. A seven-night stay costs

lovers can see white lions roaming free. The Gondwana Family Lodge resembles a typical thatched Karoo homestead and has children’s activity rooms, a spacious lawn, an outdoor play area and pool. A guide will even take children through the gardens

with acoustic guitars, electronic drums, a keyboard and amps to play with. - Worth getting out of bed for Beautiful gardens beyond the heated swimming pool offer five acres of romping and roaming pleasure – anyone for hide-and-seek and a picnic? Angoulême, 30

.classic-collection.co.uk) offers seven nights’ B&B in June in interconnecting Deluxe Garden View rooms for two adults and two children from £4,123 (including flights and transfers).If you’re considering a villa, a lot of the nicest properties are away from the coast, set back

to life in a riot of colours and sea spray. Mollies is a bohemian boutique hotel in the trendy Ponsonby area where a junior suite costs NZ$540 (around £228) per night. A three-hour drive south lie the geysers of Rotorua: their explosions and sulphury burps

of four stay, with two children under 12 in a superior junior room (which is interconnected), the more expensive room receives a 50 
per cent discount, making the total cost £1,473 per night for a superior room and £5,500 for a suite duplex per night. Tel

the kite-surfing fun or ride the train that cruises up and down the prom. Located directly on the beach is the stylish Sandbanks Hotel, a family favourite with heated pool and dedicated children’s restaurant. Seven nights’ half board costs from £1,470 for a

’s grotto and toy stands. In front of the cathedral is the largest selection of stalls selling mulled wine and Lebkuchen – iced gingerbread hearts. In Copenhagen, Denmark, the Tivoli Gardens theme park hosts a fairytale market selling knitwear. There’s also

the hotel’s Radio Flyer wagons – perfect for being pulled through Millennium Park. From £393 per night for a family of four in an Executive Suite, but stay three nights and get the third night free. Visit www.fourseasons.com/chicago Benguerra Island