How to get the most out of a visit to Disneyland Paris

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Liz Jarvis and her family are regular visitors to the House of the Mouse in Marne-la-Vallée. As the park celebrates its 20th anniversary she shares her top tips for a stress-free visit We first started visiting Disneyland Paris when our son was two, but I’ll be really honest, that first trip didn’t go quite according to plan. He was far too exhausted from over-excitement to enjoy it properly, and on It’s A Small World, he removed his [...] Read more »

Sponsored post: Fly the Family for Less This Summer with Jet2holidays

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New swimming gear, sunglasses, sun cream and sandals… the things you need for a family holiday mean the cost keeps on growing, but a great new offer from Jet2holidays will help parents pinch a few pennies on this years’ getaway. Every infant aged 24 months and under travelling with Jet2holidays this year will go completely free, which could shave at least a couple of hundreds of pounds off the price of your family break. So [...] Read more »

Help! Long haul or not?

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Last week a friend of mine put a post on Facebook advertising their friend’s gorgeous holiday home in Florida and it got my brain ticking away and I’ve not stopped thinking about it since. I’m no stranger to Florida, having visited several times.  I’ve been to Naples and St Petersburg on the stunning West Coast, spotted dolphins in the sea on Cocoa Beach on the East Coast and I’ve experienced the fabulous shopping and theme [...] Read more »

Sponsored post: Beat the hotel price hike by staying at a luxury French chateau

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Organising a trip to France for a family holiday in 2012? The planning for the annual holiday trip to often includes trawling the web for the best deals on hotels or package holidays. You can often find great offers however recent news reports have suggested that French hotel prices are likely to rise by 10% in 2012. This is obviously not great news for family holidaymakers, especially when the economic climate is as it is. [...] Read more »

New brand of holiday for Canvas

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Canvas Holidays, the European camping holiday specialists, have added a new brand to their portfolio – Canvas Life. Canvas Life claims to give holidaymakers the freedom to tailor a holiday to their own requirements, but backed with the expertise and confidence that the campsites and accommodation have been chosen by a trusted company. Each site is vetted by the Canvas team and prices are for accommodation only, leaving customers free to select their own travel [...] Read more »

All-inclusive holidays – love them or loathe them?

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First Choice holidays launched its Tropical Holidays brochure today for 2012/13 and as promised by the company earlier this year, all of the package deals in it are all-inclusive. The decision to only offer all-inclusive deals from next year has been highly publicised, and was taken in order to offer customers better value, First Choice claimed. But as to how well this will go down with holiday-makers, only time will tell. There’s no denying the [...] Read more »

What we did on our holidays: Ten favourite posts by parent bloggers

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Sand glorious sand in another corner of the world Out of everything I’ve read on blogs in the last 12 months, Victoria Wallop’s evocative reports and dream-like photos from faraway shores may just have made the biggest impression. Victoria supplied occasional dispatches for Ready for Ten and updated It’s a Small World After All as often as she could from a  nine-month around the world trip with her husband and three children. Here, she sums up [...] Read more »

Hotel review: Costa Adeje Gran, Costa Adeje, Tenerife

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My extended family has stayed at The Costa Adeje Gran on numerous occasions — so that tells its own story. It’s a  five star hotel, without five star prices. Some reviews question the star rating given here and suggest that three or four star would be more accurate. During our stay, we also heard people complain that the food wasn’t up to a UK five star standard. Impressions of what five star service means are bound [...] Read more »