Camp out in tents set among flowery meadows, tend to the goats and rabbits in the stables, follow adventure hiking trails and even bake your own bread. Visit www.wiesenbett.comFind more great travel ideas in our Europe section.

Like many of my contemporaries, I spent many of my childhood holidays on family camping trips all over Europe. Back then, there were no children’s clubs, no electricity (just a Camping Gaz light and a mosquito candle) and certainly no television

tent or tipi to a ready-erected family tent with your own shower and toilet facilities. Cool festival fashion and Hunter wellies are still de rigueur, as are the must-have Peltor Kid ear defenders – à la the Apple of Gwynnie’s eye – to protect your

are older), but book the Loews Miami Beach Hotel with its special Kids Camp for children aged four to 12. Price from £1,737 for a week for a family of four.For Hawaiian beach bliss, Kapalua Beach in Maui is a gem of beautiful golden sands, bounded by swaying

, with their crochet neck detailing on vest tops and Kik-Kid with their use of bright vintage prints and knee high socks.The displays in the press office were also very fun; with toy stuffed animal heads popping out of bird print wallpapered walls and a camping scene

transformation in the range of camping sites that people can choose from, from very big, well-equipped sites with excellent facilities, to smaller, more idiosyncratic sites with real character,” explains Clover Stroud, author of Cool Camping: Kids (Punk

Sand is usually associated with the stuff you get next to the ocean, but the allure of this grainy gold doesn’t get much better than on a dune or desert adventure. Camel treks, thrilling 4x4 rides and Bedouin camps under the stars are just some

with American Adventures. On this activity-filled trip you explore unique landscapes in Zion, Bryce and Grand Canyon National Park. In Zion, you can hire bikes and visit the ghost town where Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid was filmed, hike to the Emerald

and Bedouin Camp are easy to arrange locally.Stay at the Four Seasons Resort Sharm el-Sheikh in a two-bedroom Gezira Suite. These suites share a large pool, so you do not have to use the main pool in the resort; each also has a small kitchen area as well

located with its ski-in ski-out position at the base of Beaver Creek mountain (and overlooking the skating rink). It has a heated pool and the Camp Hyatt children’s programme offers craft activities and photo safaris as well as a babysitting service. Seven