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Cheltenham’s No 38 The Park hotel is a luxe, leafy getaway

Rating: A friend has been going on about No. 38 The Park and its sister hotel No. 131, and the glories of Cheltenham itself. Arriving in [...]

An Inspector Calls on the Henrietta Hotel in Covent Garden

An Inspector Calls: The Henrietta Hotel in Covent Garden is stylish, quirky - and decidedly decadentThe Daily Mail's hotel Inspector called in at London's new [...]

The Domes of Elounda in Crete where families come first

Cretans are proud of their olive oil – and rightly so. But if weren’t for the Minoans 3,000 years ago, cultivation might have been postponed for [...]

An Inspector Calls on the Bristol Harbour Hotel

An Inspector Calls: The Bristol Harbour Hotel is a grand converted bank that is certainly rich in style - but a little poor when it [...]

Groningen in the secret gem of the Netherlands

Where does a dad take his seven-year-old when she claims to be the only one of her friends to have never gone abroad?New York? Too [...]

Falling for fabulous Ferrara, a city of pasta and palaces

The walls around Ferrara were built to repel enemies. Now, though, the wars that kept medieval Italy busy are a distant memory, and those same [...]

The other Queen of Jordan: In search of Fahrelnissa Zeid

When T. E. Lawrence passed through Amman a century ago at the head of the Arab Revolt, the city had fewer than 6,000 inhabitants. The [...]

A singing trip to Salzburg, Austria’s feted city of music

Taking 13 ladies of a certain age and turning them into a singing group good enough to perform in one of Salzburg's most prestigious venues [...]

Why the Isle of Wight is still a firm holiday favourite

That fabulous fragment off the bottom of England: Why the Isle of Wight is still a firm favourite for a long weekend Once beloved of Queen [...]

This French theme park will thrill the whole family

What a performance! This fantastical French theme park, with huge-scale live shows, will thrill the whole familyNorth-west France's Puy du Fou theme park features no [...]

Switzerland is just perfect for a break with a toddler

Sugar-topped mountains, turquoise lakes and the crisp smell of pine needles should be available on prescription for stressed-out parents.While many think of the Swiss Alps [...]

A weekend trip to Bordeaux for a glass of claret? Why not?

Fancy a rail trip to Bordeaux?A new section of high-speed line means the train journey from Paris, via TGV, now takes just over two hours [...]

Devon’s Court Lodge and floating Picnic Boat

Dartmouth is jam-packed with tasty treats and river revelry: Enjoying cream teas and family fun in DevonThe Daily Mail's John McEntee opted for a Devon-based [...]

Zizoo charters family yachts to tour the Croatian coast

Hop aboard for a value family break in Croatia: Island-hopping in a chartered yacht is fun and surprisingly affordableThe Daily Mail's Robert Harman chartered a [...]

Malaga’s Picasso Museum and Mariposa Hotel are stunning

Malaga’s red light district has been shown a red card.And in its place? Well, take your pick from the Pompidou Centre, the first European branch [...]

Port Lympne Reserve Tiger Lodge offers close encounters

When we opened our front door and looked out through the enormous sitting room window, I thought someone must be pulling my leg. Or be [...]

Naples guide: The scruffy city in Vesuvius’s shadow

Crucifixes that talk, shop assistants with the faces of Botticelli angels, cathedrals where miracles are commonplace.You could believe anything might happen in Naples, never more [...]

Six of the best cycling routes across the world

Two hundred years ago, the German inventor Karl Drais created the velocipede, a wheeled wooden contraption regarded as the first bicycle. In tribute, try one [...]

Malta is more than just beaches and cheap breaks

Gozo and Malta are to Roman Catholicism what Liverpool is to football. If you're not a churchgoer, you're the odd one out.During the big religious [...]

How Ile de Re always works its magic on lively children

There were moments during what was supposed to be a gentle family bike ride around Ile de Re where we felt that, just maybe, we’d [...]

An Inspector Calls on the Lalit near Tower Bridge

An Inspector Calls: The Lalit, near Tower Bridge in London, is a former school with plenty of promise - but it needs a quick spark [...]

Thrills and spills in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland

Rio, Cape Town, Sydney.They're all thrilling ocean-side cities — just like Auckland, in fact. But where New Zealand's largest urban centre picks up points is [...]

Revealed: Europe’s summer holiday bargains

School’s almost out for summer and if you haven’t sorted a family getaway, then worry not, because Europe currently has last-gasp bargains galore, from cut-price [...]

James Coney sets sail in Ipswich Suffolk with his family

When it comes to rivers, there are two types of people,’ says Ipswich local Gary Richens. ‘Those who like them thriving and useful and those who [...]

Jenny Coad’s Chilean tour of Pablo Neruda’s homeland

Chile through the eyes of its greatest poet: A walk in the footsteps of Pablo Neruda - in Santiago and Valparaiso Jenny Coad toured Chile, [...]

Climbing the Lake District’s Scafell Pike

My children scramble over the last boulder and we are there. They whoop with celebration; I gasp with exhaustion. We've just walked up the tallest [...]

Why Hong Kong still reaches new heights

Freedom is a loaded word in Hong Kong.Ever since the UK handed the former British colony back to China — 20 years ago this week [...]

Olivia Gordon takes her family to Tyler Place in Vermont

Thank heavens for American holiday camps: From watersports to cocktail parties, meet the Vermont resort that pleases every member of the familyThe Daily Mail's Olivia [...]

Sally Jones rounds up six best summer camps in the UK

The summer holidays can be long for working parents. But there is a way to get your children off the sofa and away from their games [...]

An Inspector Calls: Mimi’s lands in London’s Soho

An Inspector Calls: Mimi's, in the very heart of London's chic Soho, requires some fancy footwork in the bedroomThe Daily Mail's Inspector called into Mimi’s, a [...]

An Inspector Calls on Bath’s No 15 Great Pulteney hotel

An Inspector Calls: Bath's pricey No 15 Great Pulteney hotel is an intriguing retreat - but it's overflowing with fussThe Daily Mail's Inspector called into [...]

Guy Adams reviews Warwick Castle’s new Knight’s Village

Throughout the history of our Sceptred Isle, some things have never changed. Little girls like to dress up as princesses. Their brothers want to play with [...]

Robert Hardman on cruising as a family

Whatever preconceptions I once had about cruising, I never expected my first experience to pan out quite like this: watching a dance spectacular on ice [...]

Stress-free Seattle: Uncover the charms of a coffee city

Seattle may not have the iconic sights of New York or the glitz of Los Angeles, but nor does it have the frenetic pace and [...]

Lulled by Lima: Why Peru’s capital is more than a pit-stop

Lulled by lavish Lima: Why Peru's cosmopolitan capital is way more than a pit-stop on the path to Machu PicchuOnce seen as just a place [...]

In search of a Swiss master: On the trail of Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti was a mountain goat. As a boy he disappeared into the meadows above the village of Stampa in Bregaglia near the Swiss-Italian border.When [...]