experience, visit Shamu – the gentle killer whale.Seven nights at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld costs from £867 per adult (based on two adults sharing) and £287 per child.Read our guide to The finest holidays to get soaked in.

the bartender mixes mocktails. The hotel offers large family suites on the ground floor, all with a private terrace opening up onto the tropical gardens. Prices start from £3,288 for a family of four sharing a garden-view suite for seven nights at Treasure Beach

, fishing and whale and dolphin watching. You can even enjoy a castaway picnic on a private beach.Scott Dunn offers six nights from £3,484 per adult and £2,397 per child, based on two adults and two children sharing a family villa on a fully-inclusive basis

villa on Hamilton Island. The tour costs from £1,230 per person, based on a family of four sharing. Visit www.wandotravel.comLook at our article Luscious landscapes Down Under in our fantastic Long-haul travel section. 

Sayang on Penang has a huge children’s club with its own café, pool, waterslides and activities. Children under-12 stay and eat for free when sharing a room with parents at all resort hotels.

eight young orang-utan orphans, who delight visitors twice daily by swinging through the vines to a feeding platform. As we enjoyed the spectacle, however, we were quickly reminded that we were out in the jungle and not in a zoo when a troop of long

At first I thought the onlookers at the breakfast buffet were merely admiring my four-year-old son’s undeniable cuteness: he was certainly attracting more than his fair share of smiling glances. But then I looked down at the floor and realized

The feeling is familiar: you’re sitting in the departure lounge waiting to board that long-haul flight, watching your fellow travellers milling about, hoping, praying, that the two small children screaming and climbing over the seats

at Atlantis, The Palm in a deluxe room with B&B costs from £1,261 per adult and £326 for a child sharing the adults’ room. This includes flights from Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow and transfers. Tel: 0845 277 3310; www

Assumption, they say, is the mother of mess-up. Oh, and what a fool was I to assume that on a long-haul flight with a duration of 11 hours there would be back-of-the-seat in-flight entertainment to keep a five-year-old amused. Instead, there was one