homage to the Queen, who’ll appear on the balcony of mini Buckingham Palace, complete with real jewelled crown and benevolent royal wave to the crowd. You’ll be hard pushed to see it all in a day – but there’s a perfect solution. Ta-dah! The brand

flag flying on top of the palace turret, as it was all perfectly reflected in the glassy facade of the restaurant.With famed restaurateur Oliver Peyton at the helm, Inn The Park prides itself on proper British food – both traditional and modern with a

from Buckingham Palace, is likely to put a smile on their face, for a child, to be greeted by a bowler-hatted doorman and then to unearth a personalised welcome pack containing their favourite snacks and a toy box filled with games, books and DVDs

is Atlantis The Palm, a huge pink palace of gargantuan proportions that cradles the crescent of The Palm Jumeirah, the 2-km long manmade island in the shape of a palm tree. Our route to the hotel is lined with “jungle trees”, notes Joe, while Grace is already

, shimmering imperiously on the Western Promenade of Eastbourne. Affectionately known locally as the White Palace, over the years The Grand has welcomed an illustrious string of guests, from Charlie Chaplin to Churchill, Debussy (who wrote La Mer whilst staying