The top airport hotels offer a combination of comfort and convenience, and they can best provide that if they’re actually AT the airport. For me, the most important feature of an airport hotel is the ease with which you can walk from it to the departure gate when you’re half asleep. I’m not interested in […]
The Westin Resort, Costa Navarino review
As I watch the dogs run around in the early morning sun I think how happy and healthy they seem. I’m at Costa Navarino, a luxury resort in Greece. When I learnt that they take in injured and very young stray dogs, care for them and try to find them new homes, I asked if […]
Review: The Malvern Spa Hotel
As I drive up to The Malvern Spa I assume that my SatNav has brought me to the wrong place. I’ve been to a fair few spas in my time, and all of them have been either in country house hotels, or on the coast or in swish city centre locations – apart from the […]
What’s it like to stay at La Manga Club?
Usually we travel around rather than staying in one place during our family summer holiday, so that we can explore as much as possible. But when we were planning this summer’s trip the kids (18 and 14) said that they just wanted to stay in one place and relax. So we needed to find somewhere […]
Eurocamp: Le Brasilia campsite review
This is a guest post by Steph Curtis, who blogs at Steph’s Two Girls. Steph writes about family life with an autistic child – her younger daughter has Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA). During the May half term Steph, her husband and their daughters (aged 12 and 10 years old) spent a week in the South […]
Villa Vittoria – a luxury villa in Sicily
This is a guest post by Anglo-Italian journalist Lorenza Bacino, about the villa where she stayed near to the beautiful coastal town of Cefalù, Sicily. You can read more about Lorenza’s trip in her post Cefalù, Sicily: travel tips and things to do. ‘The family and I (two kids aged 11 and 14 and my […]
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 […]
Family travel with teenagers: why villa holidays work
I’ve teamed up with Villa Plus to look at why villa holidays work so well for families with teenagers. Space When they’re not on a family holiday, most teenagers probably spend more time with their peers than they do with their families. So when the whole family is together on holiday, it can be tricky, […]
How home swapping holidays work
What do you think about home swapping holidays – do they appeal to you? I think that home exchange sounds like a great travel option for families – but my husband’s not convinced. I’m hoping to convert him. How do home swapping holidays work? Home swapping is simple – you exchange homes with somebody for […]
Praia D’el Rey Golf & Beach Resort, Portugal
My favourite thing about the apartment where we stay on Portugal’s Silver Coast is its marvellous view of the ocean. I’m with my husband, daughter (18) and son (13) at Praia D’el Rey Golf & Beach Resort, around an hour’s drive north of Lisbon. It’s our first time in Portugal, and we start our trip […]
