Sites we like for family holidays and travel

You'll find links to hundreds of sites from within our destination guides, as well as other pages in this 'Prepare' section. And do check out our ' what to take' section for ideas and links.

We'd also like to draw your attention to some other sites:

Family travel sites

• Family Travel - this site is the most comprehensive guide to everything about family travel on the Internet.
• Traveling with Kids Forum - A forum for parents who want to talk directly to each other – exchanging travel tips, experiences and advice. The forum is hosted by Dea Birkett who wrote, until late 2005, a highly popular 'Travelling with Kids' column in the Guardian each Saturday.
• France For Families is an online travel guide to France that focuses on, yes you guessed right, family holidays and breaks to France.
• Kids in Tow - the main emphasis of this site is on activity and adventure holiday options for families

Sites for parents with travel sections

• Mumsnet - a large and growing community of Mothers with candid reviews and a lively 'talk' forum.
• familyrapp - a weekly online magazine for parents and carers of children with a wealth of information and advice, including a database of operators and resorts that you can search by place and type of holiday
• ForParentsByParents - parents share personal experiences about all the life changing elements of parenthood, even the grim bits!! Their travel section focuses mostly on ideas within the UK.
• Junior Magazine's site - includes a comprehensive travel section, rich with features from past issues of their magazines.
• Raising Kids - offers competitions, advice and a discussion forum
• Childfriendly.net - a database of reviews, written by parents for parents, of child friendly places to visit within the UK, including shops and restaurants.
• Are we there - a website full of travel games, ideas and pastimes that hope to make boring and stressful journeys a thing of the past.

Travel focused directories

• All Kids - offers sections on Days Out, Theme Parks, UK and Overseas Holidays
• All4kidsUK - a comprehensive UK childrens directory which includes listings for holidays within the UK and abroad, as well as holiday clubs and courses and activity camps.
• ANTOR - it's not really a directory, it's the site of the Association of National Tourist Offices in the United Kingdom. It has links to most tourist offices which can be a great way to get impartial advice.
• Days Out - lists over 7,000 British attractions. And publishes an annual magazine.
• EnjoyBritain.com is one of the largest and most organised British Tourism directories on the net.
• Travel-Directory.org lists over one million travel related sites across the globe, easy to use.
• Parents are likely to find the child friendly and family holidays section of the travel-quest specialist travel directory relevant and useful.
• Travelpixel.net - start your journey here!.A useful directory to cut through the myriad of travel websites.

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