We’ve stayed at three hotels for PortAventura, and we paid for every one of them ourselves: Hotel El Paso inside the resort, Ponient Dorada Palace in central Salou, and Sol Costa Daurada, facing Ferrari Land.…
When to book July and August hotels in Spain: early booking sales run November to January. Insider tips on non-refundable rates, member prices and booking sites.
We’ve been to Mallorca three times, in three different ways. In December 2015 we rented an apartment in Alcúdia with a big family group, with Damian aged 2 and me pregnant with Marc. In March…
This post contains affiliate links. Every Lisbon guide says “do Sintra”. With a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old in July 2022, we didn’t. We took the train to Cascais and went swimming instead, and it was…
Black Friday 2026 is on 27 November. A checklist for families to prepare for travel deals on hotels, flights, tours and car hire before the sale starts.
This post contains affiliate links. We paid for our own accommodation in Lisbon. For 14 years my job at lastminute.com was knowing exactly where hotels sit, why some sell and others don’t, and which side…
Kay Sushi Experience, an all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet near Passeig de Gràcia: €17.50 per person on weekdays at midday, drinks extra, and what we paid for four.
Dalí Boulevard Cibernètic in Barcelona with kids: what’s inside, ticket prices, how long it takes, the VR ship ride and whether we’d go back.
Disclosure: the Lisbon Tourism Office gave us four 72-hour Lisboa Cards in July 2022. They didn’t see this post before it went live, and the maths below uses public 2026 prices. This post contains affiliate…
This post contains affiliate links. The Lisbon Tourism Office gave us Lisboa Cards; everything else on this trip we paid for ourselves. In July 2022 we crossed Portugal from north to south in 10 days…
Checked September 2026 First, an honest note: on our Oslo trip we didn’t stay in a hotel. Friends put us up on their farm half an hour outside the city. So this isn’t a “where…
Prices checked on each attraction’s official site, September 2026 We used an Oslo Pass on our family trip in 2017. Visit Oslo gave us one for the day, and it made our rainy Bygdøy museum…
Updated September 2026 · we visited the old museum in September 2017 The Viking Ship Museum in Oslo has been closed since September 2021, and it won’t reopen before late 2027. If you’re reading this…
Bygdøy Museums with Kids: Fram, Kon-Tiki & Folkemuseum in 1 Day Visited September 2017 with a 4-year-old and a toddler · prices and times updated September 2026 It rained all day on our second day…
Our trip: September 2017, with a 4-year-old and a toddler · updated September 2026 Most “Norway with kids” guides send you straight to the fjords: long drives, ferries, and a lot of hours in a…
Comillas with Kids: Gaudí’s El Capricho, Sobrellano and the Beach Comillas is a small town on the western Cantabrian coast with far more grand architecture than a town its size should have. At the end…
We stayed in Xagħra, the village where the Ġgantija Temples are, and on our very first afternoon on Gozo we walked over to see them. We got there after closing time. They’re older than the…
Gozo is not a sandy island. Most of its coast is cliffs and rock, and some of its most famous swimming spots mean climbing down onto a limestone ledge and jumping in. That’s wonderful for…
I spent fourteen years on the other side of hotel bookings, as an account manager working with hotels on how they appear and sell online. The thing I learned that matters most to families isn’t…
There is no airport on Gozo. Whatever you do, the trip from Malta airport to Gozo means a road journey to one end of Malta and a ferry across. With a five-year-old, a two-year-old and…
