We were hosted at the Novotel Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport for one night.* We spent the last night of our Thailand summer family trip at the splendid Novotel at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport. We flew to Bangkok from Koh Samui in the evening, and our flight back to London wasn’t until the following morning. We wanted to […]
Elephant Hills Thailand adventure review
When you stay at Elephant Hills tented jungle camp in Thailand, all of the scheduled adventure activities are included, as well as your accommodation, meals and transfers. When you book, you need to think about which activities you’d like to do, so that you choose the package which is right for you. Elephant Hills is […]
Thai cooking class, The Tongsai Bay, Thailand
While staying at The Tongsai Bay (you can read my review of the hotel here) in Koh Samui, my family and I took part in an excellent Thai cooking class.* We’ve experienced cooking classes a few times on our family travels, and they’ve always been a success – even when the kids are at peak […]
Hotel review: The Tongsai Bay, Koh Samui, Thailand
We were hosted at The Tongsai Bay for five nights.* We spent the second week of our summer family trip by the beach on the island of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand. We travelled there by road and ferry from Elephant Hills tented camp on the Thai mainland, having started off with a […]
What’s it like to stay at Elephant Hills, Thailand?
The second part of our family summer holiday was at Elephant Hills in Khao Sok National Park in Southern Thailand. Our flight from Bangkok (you can read about where we stayed in Bangkok here) to Surat Thani took just over an hour, and we were met there by a driver who took us to the Elephant Camp, […]
Hotel review: Amari Watergate, Bangkok, Thailand
We were hosted at the Amari Watergate for two nights.* We start our summer family trip to Thailand with two nights in Bangkok. We fly there from London overnight, and take a taxi from the airport to our hotel, the five-star Amari Watergate. It’s 30 degrees and I’m feeling somewhat jaded from the 12-hour flight […]
8 reasons to visit Australia
Australia has always been on my travel bucket list, but it’s so very far away from the UK that I’ve not made it there yet. Australia is a continent as well as a country, and offers a myriad of marvellous experiences for travellers. Flight Centre have asked me to write about some of the many […]
6 great things to do in Cape Town with teenagers
This post is by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino. In December Lorenza visited South Africa for a holiday with her husband and their two kids (14 and 12). The family spent six days exploring Kruger National Park (you can read about their experience in the post Family safari: Kruger, South Africa) and also visited the Cape […]
Family safari: Kruger, South Africa
This post is by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino. You can read about her experiences in Cape Town here. “In December, I was lucky enough to travel to South Africa with my husband and the kids (14 and 12) to stay with friends and experience the country as a local, which is always the best way, I […]
Fairmont Sanur Beach Bali review
This is a guest post by broadcast journalist and blogger Sharmeen Ziauddin. Sharmeen blogs at BritPakGirl and lives in Surrey with her husband and their three young children. You can find her tweeting as @sharm33n. ‘When you go from being a family of four to a family of five, things change dramatically in many ways. One of the […]