Family travel in Spain from a Barcelona family: over ten years of trips with our two boys, and 14 years on the hotel side of the industry. Start with our Spain with kids guide to pick a region, or jump straight to Barcelona, the Costa Brava, the Balearic Islands, the Costa del Sol, Valencia, Madrid or the Basque Country. Every guide has real prices and the hotels we’d book with kids.
Ferrari Land is the only Ferrari theme park in Europe, it sits inside the PortAventura resort at Salou, and the most useful thing anyone can tell you about it is a pricing quirk. Adding it…
We paid for every PortAventura stay ourselves. None of our hotel stays here have been hosted, and this review is from two nights at Hotel El Paso with our two boys. Where we stayedHotel El…
We go to PortAventura at least once a year and have done for years. It’s two hours from Barcelona, it’s the largest resort in southern Europe, and there is one thing about it that almost…
An hour inland from Barcelona there’s a small aerodrome at Igualada-Òdena where you can go up in a glider for €150, be towed to 800 metres by a light aircraft, and then have the rope…
Fifteen minutes’ walk from the Sagrada Família, down a straight avenue that points at it, there is a site of twenty-seven modernist pavilions set in gardens. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site, it was…
Quick answer If you want to visit Sagrada Familia, book in advance, if you are coming in high season, at least 1 month prior to your trip. What it costs Ticket Adult Under 30 /…
CosmoCaixa Barcelona: The Best-Value Day Out We Know Here There is an Amazon rainforest inside a building in the hills above Barcelona. It has caimans in it, and piranhas, and it rains on you. Adults…
Most day trips from Barcelona are a town with a ticket office. Montseny is a mountain range, ninety minutes out, that costs nothing to walk in. It’s a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve — beech and oak…
One of the best way ever to do in a big city is to enjoy it from above, and when it comes to stunning views, Barcelona is a must see city. There are a lot…
Mystery Escape, a room escape experience in Barcelona. We had the last lock in front of us and about five minutes of work left. Then the hour ran out. We didn’t escape. And it was…
Lanzarote Experience Tours: Two Private Days with a 4-Year-Old and a Toddler Lanzarote Experience Tours gave us these two days in exchange for this review. Opinions are our own. In November 2017 we spent four…
We spent a sunny October day in Zaragoza with the boys, 24°C and blue sky. We were visiting family who live just outside the city. I also know Zaragoza from the other side: for years…
Barcelona has a municipal sailing centre at Port Olímpic, and you can go out on a 7-metre keelboat from it for two hours with a skipper. It is one of the best things we’ve done…
We live in Barcelona and we have seven beaches inside the city. Most weekends that we’re not going anywhere else, we get on a train and leave all of them behind. We go to El…
Berga Resort invited us for this stay. The opinions are our own. We stayed at Berga Resort in May 2017, when Damian was four and Marc was one. With a toddler, we needed two things…
Cotton House sits on Gran Via at the Passeig de Gràcia end, in the building that was the headquarters of the Cotton Producers’ Guild. It kept the marble staircase, the parquet floors, the panelling and…
La Pedrera is the Gaudí building with the roof that looks like a chess set — the one covered in chimneys that have been described as veiled women and as helmeted warriors, and which children…
Quick answer Our two Barcelona hotel picks Boutique pick · EixampleThe Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection – a boutique hotel in central Barcelona. Check prices Rooftop terrace · Via LaietanaH10 Cubik – by the Gothic…
L’Aquàrium de Barcelona sits in Port Vell, at the bottom of La Rambla, and it is the most expensive family outing in this city that isn’t a theme park. That’s not a reason to skip…
Quick answer How to get. The zoo is situated in the heart of the Parc de la Ciutadella, and you can get there very quick in public transport. (Metro: red line L1 – Arc de…