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Stockholm piles on the style with aplomb!

From opera to perfectly poured cocktails: Sweden's splendid capital Stockholm piles on the style in spadesMark Palmer and his wife visited Sweden's capital for both [...]

The top city spots to visit for opera

Teatro San Carlo in Naples is the oldest continuously active opera house in the worldOpera has never been more popular - and opera houses are a [...]

An Inspector Calls: Manchester’s Hotel Football

An Inspector Calls: Manchester's slick Hotel Football serves up 'match day steaks', 'local legends' and a hefty delivery of old-fashioned hospitalityThe Daily Mail's Inspector called [...]

Following Winnie the Pooh through film and woodland walks

On the trail of Winnie the Pooh: If you loved (or cried watching) Goodbye Christopher Robin, you should take a trip to AA Milne's old [...]

Break for the Brecon Beacons and discover Wales

You’ll need a 4 x 4 to reach the cottage, said the people at Sugar & Loaf. Pah, we thought. Taffeta (my wife) and I [...]

A family stay in Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont home

When I was ten, my father challenged me to learn Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ in exchange for a pound. I memorised all four verses. Fast-forward 30-odd years [...]

Alton Towers opens CBeebies hotel

Spending the night with Captain Barnacles and Igglepiggle! Alton Towers opens CBeebies hotel geared towards children with special needsTravelMail's Sarah Welsh visited CBeebies Land Hotel [...]

Kayakers take plunge off 82ft waterfall in Mexico

A trio of adrenaline seeking junkies take the plunge off an 82ft waterfall, one by one riding down with thousands of litres of water a [...]

Lorrimer Trip in A Van travel around Australia in caravan

A couple who quit the rat race to travel around Australia with their three children have opened up about their adventurous life on the road. [...]

Costa Rica’s Arenal volcano and Tortuguero National Park

It was the elegant Costa Rican footballers in the 2014 World Cup that first got me thinking about a holiday in Central America. Costa Rica [...]

An Inspector Calls on London’s Sunborn Yacht hotel

An Inspector Calls: London's Sunborn Yacht Hotel is an overpriced novelty floating hideaway with disappointing food and an off-putting faux-poshnessThe Daily Mail's Inspector called in [...]

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, [...]