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.
Quick answer We’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010, and the single thing visitors most reliably get wrong here isn’t which sights to see — it’s which ticket to buy. Most people either overpay for a…
Barcelona is a good city to leave for a day. Not because there’s nothing to do in it — we live here, there’s plenty — but because within two hours of Plaça de Catalunya you…
This walking tour is created mainly for the first time visitors. As this walking tour of Barcelona includes 10 main places to see while in Barcelona. Those can be discovered in only 1 day. We…
Every winter, when Europe goes grey, the same island fills up first. For fourteen years I worked on the hotel side of the travel business, and Tenerife in winter was one of the most in-demand…
We spent four days in Lanzarote in November 2017, from the 5th to the 8th, with Damian, who was 4½, and Marc, who was 1½. We stayed in an apartment in Arrecife, without a car:…
We went to Menorca for five days at the end of September with a five-year-old and a two-year-old, and by the third day I had stopped planning. That is the thing about this island: it…
Menorca is 53 km from end to end and it has seven lighthouses. We reached six of them in five days, mostly by accident — you set off for a beach, see a white tower…
By the third evening of our trip Damian was asking about the sunset before dinner. He was five. That is the thing about watching the sun go down on an island — it costs nothing,…
Menorca has been a protected UNESCO Biosphere Reserve from 1993. This means that it´s beaches are truly protected. Menorca beaches have crystal clear turquoise waters, a total paradise for any traveller. Menorca is 216 kilometres…
We had five days and four nights in Menorca at the end of September with a five-year-old and a two-year-old. We saw at least three beaches a day, drove the length of the island twice,…
We had lived in Barcelona for years before we finally drove up to Calella de Palafrugell, and we gave it one Sunday. That was the mistake. By the time we were driving home I was…
There is a park thirteen kilometres from Barcelona where the Sagrada Família comes up to your waist, Montserrat fits in a field, and a child can walk from Girona to Tarragona in about four minutes.…
We’ve taken our two boys out in kayaks on flat water, on the sea and on a reservoir, over several years, working towards one thing: a full day in a kayak. This is what we…
For one week every August, the residents of Gràcia turn their own streets into cathedrals, jungles, underwater worlds and outer space — built by hand, out of recycled plastic, cardboard and bottle tops, over months…
To this specific edition we were invited by Barcelona És Molt Més and Anoia Turisme for an instagrammer event that was organized in Igualada. We were happy enough to participate at this event and see…
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…