to ER doctor and chef. The park is an entire miniature city designed for children and gives children uniforms for their jobs, which they spend between 15 to 40 minutes doing, whether it’s preparing a pizza in a chef’s hat or having a taste of being

’s for live music, or Scotland Yard for great pizza.Best for food: South Tyrol, Italy and Val d’Isère, France. South Tyrol (www.suedtirol.info) boasts 
15 Michelin stars at its 14 restaurants, so you are spoilt for choice. But how does roast sea bass

for catching the footy scores. We also had a daily maid service and made use of one of the restaurant’s home delivery of pizza or curry. But what strikes you most is Martinhal’s family-friendliness. Perhaps that’s not surprising, seeing as it’s part

with more seating and access to an outdoor stone oven, should you be inclined to turn your hand to baking your own stone-baked pizzas. Also on the ground floor was the first of five double bedrooms, with an en suite wet room.Upstairs, the bedrooms were

persuade me that we should dine in Chuck E Cheese. Basically, a pizza restaurant with a side of arcade games, rides, climbing equipment and giant tube slides. Parents do get to dine in peace as children can let off steam in-between munching their pizzas

prayers rang out.Unsurprisingly, it’s not like this with children, even well-travelled ones like mine. For a start, even the most dedicated junior shopaholic is unlikely to want to spend a whole morning sifting through identical iron candleholders on 20

child calling out “hello”. Run by the lovely Thomas and Hannelore Eggler, the Arlberghaus Hotel was also exceptionally family-friendly. Children’s tea was available from 5pm each day – featuring meatballs, grilled fish, fish fingers, pizza, pasta

further with activities ranging from gladiator lessons (for all guests aged seven and over) and pizza making to parties with clowns and magicians. On arrival, children are presented with either a Welcome Activity Box or rubber duck.How much? From £285 per

into their mugs, a photograph of us magically appeared from our pizza-making session, a keepsake to remind us of all the fun we’d had. As James pulled down the throttle and our plane took to the skies, we waved bye bye to Mumbai and our great Indian adventure

three and so on, until he reaches the end of the week, when he eats a fabulous feast of muffins, pizza and pickle. The following day he has a stomach ache! By now he is too fat to move and we wonder what is next for our hero. There’s a moment of triumph