Luxury Family Hotels cater specifically for families. The children’s menus contain organic, wholesome foods, while the facilities include Ofsted-registered childcare, babysitting, baby equipment and children’s toys and a host activities

in their parents’ room (although meals are not free) and will have access to the superb Bears’ Den – a children’s club with activities including cooking and T-shirt painting, as well as lots of outdoors sports.Visit www.theelmshotel.co.uk  Take a look at our Great

luxurious lodge on stilts. The incessant chant of “Are we there yet?” ceases, as my children go slack-jawed in wonderment, and before I know it, they are running along the walkway, soon renamed the gang plank, leading to the front door, where they proceed

Family-friendly fun combines with luxury at The Elms Hotel & Spa in Worcestershire. Set within ten acres of beautiful gardens overlooking the Teme Valley, this Queen Ann mansion aims to make travelling with children just as relaxing as a romantic

Nestled in the harbour of Portreath on Cornwall’s north coast, the five-star Scandinavian-style luxury lodges of Gwel an Mor are not only equipped to be a home-away-from-home, with plasma televisions and wireless internet access, they also come

Getting the children back to school after the summer break can be stressful so a short stay at Augill Castle in Cumbria is just the place to regain your equilibrium. There are 15 acres of landscaped grounds to explore before you even venture out into the breathtaking countryside....

Sleeping six, and costing from £669 per week, the lodges are stylishly furnished and overlook the hotel’s lake, tennis courts and Edwardian gardens. For children, the hotel has its own play barn during school holidays with arts and crafts sessions, egg collecting from the local c...

With specially made mini bathrobes, milk and cookies at bedtime and a range of informal dining options, Thorpe Park Hotel and Spa treat children as mini VIPs. What’s more, as the hotel has teamed up with Safehands – Britain’s leading national childcare organisation – parents can ...

Its collection of timber-and-glass self-catering lodges, set among hills near the north Cornish coast, all have a private terrace with a barbecue and outdoor eating area. But if cooking is off the menu, then a private chef can be requested. The resort’s myriad children’s activiti...

that can book babysitters.Prices start at £630 for a week in a three-bed residence at Castlemartyr.Tel: 0161 242 2970; www.naturalretreats.comCheck out Ireland's Famous Five locations in our UK section.