Sardinia Family Holidays

Take the Family is a travel agency specialising in active, adventure and luxury holidays. Your personal travel advisor will create the perfect Sardinia holiday for your family, with expert advice and dedicated support throughout.

Sardinia for family holidays

Great for family holidays with children of all ages, this island halfway between Italy and the African coast is focused on beach life, and kids love the many watersports and other activities that the main resorts and most popular beaches have to offer, including sailing and snorkelling in crystalline waters.

Book a Sardinia holiday with Take the Family and discover an exotic, beautiful island with some of the cleanest, most spectacular beaches in the Mediterranean plus wonderful food.

Less crowded and more welcoming than many places in the region, Sardinia has few large cities and a relatively unbuilt-up coastline. Ancient monuments dot the interior, testament to the many civilisations who have passed through, from Carthaginian to Spanish and the extraordinary Nuraghic civilisation.

As a specialist family travel agency, we can tailor-make the perfect holiday in Sardinia for your family – perhaps as part of a wider family holiday in other parts of Italy. Contact one of our travel advisors now and let's discuss your dream trip.

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Things to do with kids in Sardinia

Sardinia Best Beaches and Resorts

• Head for the chic holiday haven of the Costa Smeralda, focussed on the natural ancient harbour of Porto Cervo with its designer boutiques, hip bars (most selling ice cream and pastries) and acclaimed restaurants. One of the best-equipped marinas in the Med, it attracts world-famous yachting events and tournaments. Piazzetta San Marco has been the centre of social life here for hundreds of years and is a great place to spot celebs, from Roman Abramovich to Kate Moss, tucking into bowls of mussels.

• In the north, check out Stintino for one of the best beaches in all Italy, La Pelosa.

Sardinia Outdoor Activities

• Explore Neptune's Grotto (Grotta di Nettuno) near the town of Alghero, a sea-level cave-warren using dramatic lighting to enhance stalactites and stalagmites. You get there via 656 escala del cabirol or 'goat steps' carved into the cliffside, or by boat.

• Check out the Giara di Gesturi, a volcanic plateau rising from a broad plain. A nature reserve of ancient cork forests and shrubs, it's home to the cavallini della giara, Europe's last wild horses, of which there are believed to be around 500, as well as wild boars and wildcats.

• Take a trip to the rocky north of the island, to Capo d'Orso (Cape of the Bear), named for its huge wind-carved rock in the shape of a great crouching bear, looking out to sea.

• Take the Trenino Verde (Little Green Train) between Arbatax and Mandas from June to September – one of the world's great small railways, it’s a veritable rollercoaster ride through mountains and meadows.

Sardinia History and Culture

• Visit Alghero's Anghelu Ruju Necropolis, a conglomeration of ancient tombs excavated from sandstone dating back to around 3000BC – one of the most significant archaeological sites in Sardinia.

• Discover the massive bronze-age stone edifice at Barumini – like Stonehenge, its purpose is unknown.

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Sardinia's Little Green Train

Eating in Sardinia

Food in Sardinia is most heavily influenced by Italian cookery but has its own distinctive specialities. Traditional dishes are mostly based on local meat, including boar and goat, hard noodles, fabulous cheeses and wonderful breads, which figure more largely than pasta here. Recently there has been more of a focus on fresh fish, cooked simply with herbs.

There are very few fast-food restaurants on Sardinia, so do as the locals do by acclimatising to two-hour lunches and simple but delicious fare.

A Sardinian beach

When to go to Sardinia

The best time to go to Sardinia is late spring to early November – except the peak period of early August, which is very hot and busy (late August has slightly quieter beaches and slightly lower prices).

We love May half-term through to early July, although this island is also lovely in spring and autumn, with mild temperatures, quieter resorts and the best prices. This makes Sardinia a good bet for both May and October half terms.

If you're here in the first week of July, make sure to catch L'Ardia de San Constantino – a horse race commemorating Constantine's victory over Maxentius in 312.

L'Ardia de San Constantino horse race

How to get to Sardinia

There are direct flights from the UK to Sardinia, from London airports, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh, serving Olbia Costa Smeralda, Cagliari Elmas or Alghero-Riviera del Corallo airport. Flights from London to Sardinia take just over two hours.

We will book you the most convenient flights for your family as part of the bespoke package we put together for you, as well as car hire if you’d like to explore under your own steam, or resort transfer if require.

You can also get to Sardinia by ferry from mainland France, Corsica or mainland Italy.

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