Waterparks are making a Splash in Europe. If left your summer holiday decisions up to the kids, you’d probably spend 10 days whizzing down slides into a splash pool.
However, it is not such a bad idea, especially if you are looking to cool off this summer, as Europe has some of the wettest and wildest aqua parks.
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The tricky part is picking which water park to go to, so we’ve asked for…
If you’re a family with kids of different ages, picking the right destination that ticks all of the boxes can be a difficult task. From worrying if the older kids will get bored of relaxing on a beach, to having to have eyes in the back of your head when the younger kids are dive bombing into the pool.
However, we might have a solution for you. Choosing a family holiday focused around a theme…
Taking a long haul flight with young children is enough to fill even the most experienced parent with dread. But fear not, help is at hand. We spoke to travel experts from Travelbag and they gave us top tips for flying with kids, keeping them entertained on a long haul flight, to make your journey as relaxing and enjoyable as possible.
Try and take a night flight
Imagine that you’re flying to…
Lonely Planet guidebooks have been the only book companions during my world travels since 2000 because of their no-nonsense approach and real practical advice. I have always felt that they were the only travel guides I could trust as they shared my interest for genuine and non touristic locations when visiting new countries. The latest guide to be published is a spectacular book, the Lonely…
The area called La Valtiberina, on the eastern edge of Tuscany, is an attractive hilly landscape with woods of chestnut trees, olive groves and fields of sunflowers. It offers an image of a Tuscany still barely touched by mass tourism, yet full of medieval and renaissance art treasures. In this area were born two of the greatest Italian renaissance artists: Piero della Francesca and Michelangelo.
Visiting Firenze (Florence in English) during school holidays is a bit of a challenge because of the huge number of tourists and the long queues to get in everywhere. After all Firenze is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and inevitably over-crowded at all times.
But with a bit of planning you will be able to see lots of the key sight-seeings in a few days.
Make sure to wear…
As mums we do not often do crazy things. But once in a while we should take a couple of days off parental duty and head to a place where we can switch off completely. Well, as crazy as it sounds, New York City is probably the coolest city for women to have fun with girlfriends (without partners or kids). As you may remember, I won a three-day trip to New York last December with Netflix Stream Team…
If you feel adventurous during a half term / school holiday you can take the kids on a roadtrip to France. Without much planning we decided to go skiing and sledding for a couple of days on the Mont Blanc on the French side with a few stops along the way. It’s 1000 km one way and you can get there in 15 hours with no stops.
However with young children (Diego is 8) this is unthinkable and a more…
October half term is never been more fun than this year as we spent it on the Egyptian resort of Stella Gardens at Makadi Bay in Hurghada right on the Red Sea.
The resort and the reef
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Stella Gardens is a very new and modern resort which is just 40 minutes drive from Hurghada airport (served daily by Easyjet). The flight lasts 5 hours and 20 minutes but when you leave cold and wet London and…
They’re five words that every parent dreads hearing; a plaintive cry from the back seat of a car or camper van that means just one thing. The rest of this journey, no matter how long, is not going to be fun.
“Are we nearly there yet?”
Parkdean, the family holiday parks operator with 24 sites around the UK, recently conducted a survey of 1,478 parents to find out just how often they hear…