Booking.com

If you’re thinking of planning your next holiday but have been stuck for ideas and aren’t sure where to look for next to rest your weary heads at the end of a long fun-packed day,  take a look at Booking.com. They have a huge database of family hotels, B&Bs and apartments around the world, from Amsterdam to Zambia and for all budgets and family sizes.

Scroll down to find out more about some individual holidays with Booking.com.

Whether you’re after a boutique chic pad in Paris so you all can enjoy an amble around the cobbled streets and along the Seine, a modern no-frills fuss-free apartment in Hong Kong for the teens in the gang to go crazy over gadgetry or a cool Caribbean resort packed with stuff to keep everyone happy all day, it’s worth taking a peek at this site. 

The site provides a wealth of information, giving you the low-down on places to stay and what there is to do while you’re there. You’ll find resorts packed with water parks, high rise apartments with fabulous views, basic homestays, lodges, boats, country houses and even luxury tents! Reviews from other users reassure you, or pre-warn you, depending on the content, and you can make your own mind up. It’s always useful to have a mass of unbiased information. 

Use the search facility to type in ‘family-friendly’ and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the amount and variety of options that come up. Of course some old favourites (Skegness, Scarborough, Orlando), but also some surprises, covering places as far removed as Kuala Lumpur or Lhasa. Travellers post their own photos so you can get a real view of what it’s like, rather than the photo-shopped glossy versions and Booking.com post their questions to travellers and their answers on the site for everyone to learn from. 

Whether you’re a family of foodies, culture vultures or adrenaline junkies, you’ll find the perfect place to stay at Booking.com. From family-friendly Amsterdam with its beautiful canals and fun museums, to London, packed with fantastic sight-seeing opportunities, to the Wild West and Silver Dollar City, a cowboy style theme park, from the usual to the unusual; you’ll find it on this site. 

Searching through Booking.com is an eye-opener, leading you to consider places that you might not have considered before. When Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s own theme park pops up on the page as a child-friendly option, it’s hard to resist the lure!