on offer. Today, many companies offer eco-friendly tour packages, and it is easier than ever before to select a company that can arrange your green travel plans (visit www.responsibletravel.com). Travelling should not ruin the environment that you go to see

Children will love the overnight excursion to spot nesting green turtles, which is one of the many fantastic attractions forming part of the Gentle Family Journey in Oman. The tour can be tailor-made for your family, but the options also include

the best. Its Shandrani Resort & Spa has a superb all-inclusive package that includes dining, a 45-minute massage for parents, free champagne and drinks plus activities such as water skiing and a mini club for three- to 12-year-olds. Beachcomber Tours

. exploring the lovely garden and all the other little luxuries, such as slippers and bathrobes. The Fairytale in Bruges package offers two nights in a superior junior suite for two adults and one child from €753 until September 30, 2010, including breakfast

or airline goes into receivership. But booking a flight-inclusive package with a tour operator accredited with the Air Tour Operators’ License (ATOL) or who is certified with a reputable authority, such as the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO

, Lapland is also the home to a particular beneficent red-suited chap with the habit of handing out gifts. A range of tour operators offer special Santa trips, where, in addition to meeting Santa Claus, children can enjoy a host of activities

is surrounded by an expansive deer farm and 1,000-tree olive grove. The Eco Package includes a Maori Tour, with an exclusive tree-planting ceremony, a Kaikoura night-sky tour, seal watching by kayak and, most importantly, Hapuku Lodge will plant enough native

of a tour leader.Family adventure specialist Explore operates desert-themed trips to Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, including Sinai Explorer, a ten-day tour combining time in the Sinai Desert with Cairo, the Valley of the Kings and the Red Sea. Prices from

Suites, stunning two-bedroom suites, ideal for families. Small children can run amok in the well-equipped Playroom with its own sandpit, water area and storytelling corner. A must-do activity is going junior off-road driving in mini Land Rovers and Argo

was filled with brand-new toys that hadn’t even been taken out of the packaging. And they were both really dying to try out the swimming pool, so by about five o’clock – when it was still hot but not stifling – we headed down to the cool black infinity pool