If you’re planning a summer family holiday with a teenager, have you thought about Thailand? This south-east Asian country is a friendly and welcoming place to explore, the food’s amazing, it has more than 5,000 miles of coastline and it offers great value. AD – Some of our accommodation on this trip was provided for […]
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 […]
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, […]
Rewind Festival review – Henley 2017
When my sister invited me to go to the Rewind Festival with her and a group of friends this year I said yes straightaway. She went to Rewind a couple of years ago and from what she’d told me about it I thought that I’d enjoy it – plus it was a chance for some […]
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 […]
What to wear for a DofE expedition
Have you heard about the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, also known as the DofE? It’s a brilliant programme which encourages 14 to 24 year-olds to practice a sport, get involved with volunteering, learn or improve a skill and go on an expedition. The programme runs at three different levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold, and is […]
Family camping for beginners
Would you like to take your children on a camping trip, but you’re not sure how to do it? Help is at hand – Halfords have published The Ultimate UK Camping Guide, which you can download for free, and they’ve asked me to share my camping tips. Ultimate UK Camping Guide The Halfords guide shares […]
Duinrell accommodation, Holland
This is my second post about my trip to Holland during the Easter holidays with my son, sister and nephew. I’ve already written about our relaxing ferry crossing from Harwich to the Hook of Holland with Stena Line. This post is about our accommodation at Duinrell holiday park in South Holland, which was arranged by […]
Port Lympne Camping Pods
Earlier this month I went to Port Lympne Reserve for the opening of their new Pinewood Camping Pods – and very swish they are too. Port Lympne Reserve Port Lympne Reserve is a wild animal park in Kent in the South of England. The park is home to a range of animals including lions, tigers, […]
Caravanning holidays: the lowdown
Marianne Weekes is the editor of the BritMums website and she blogs at Mari’s World. She lives in Kent in the South of England with her husband and six year-old twin daughters and they have a caravan. Caravan holidays I’ve never been on a caravan holiday but I know that many families love them. I […]
