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.
There are places you visit once and forget. And then there is Costa Brava. A coastline where turquoise coves hide between pine-covered cliffs, where tiny fishing villages still smell of salt and grilled seafood, and…
There are places on the Costa Brava that feel beautiful⌠and then there are places that feel like a postcard youâve stepped into. Calella de Palafrugell is the second one. Just under 2 hours from…
On 23 April, every year, Barcelona fills with book stalls and rose sellers, and the tradition is that you give a book and a rose to the people you love. And everybody goes to work.…
The short version Short on time? Our top 3 Costa del Sol hotels Best for families ¡ we stayedOccidental Torremolinos Playa â beachfront, easy trip from MĂĄlaga airport. Check prices Marbella ¡ we stayedOccidental Puerto…
We’ve stayed in five hotels in Lloret de Mar. Not visited. Not toured. Slept in, with two children, across several trips â Hotel GarbĂ Park, Alba Seleqtta, Costa Encantada, Best Lloret Splash and Roger de…
We went to Seville for New Year 2021â2022 with a simple plan: no big itinerary, just New Year’s Eve together as a family. It was a big group: my parents, my sister’s family, and us…
Quick verdict We stayed in a Superior Room with Sea View. I’ve also spent over a decade as a hotel account manager with the Costa del Sol as my portfolio, so I book these places…
MeliĂĄ Sevilla Room Tour: A Stay That Just Makes Sense This review comes from my husband’s stay at MeliĂĄ Sevilla, on a work trip. The company booked and paid for it, so there’s no price…
Quick answer I live in Barcelona and I still took the tourist bus, which is a slightly ridiculous thing to admit. My in-laws were visiting, we had one day, and I wanted to see whether…
Quick answer Living in Barcelona means we’re always looking for new family plans in a city we already know well. So when Big Fun Museum invited us to visit, we turned it into a Sunday…
Quick verdict I’ve lived in Barcelona since 2010 and I still get asked the same question every time someone visits: what do we actually do? This is my answer, organised the way you’ll walk it…
We paid for our stay. We stayed here in July 2025, during the La Roda International Basketball Tournament. Damian (12) slept with his team in La Roda, and we were 30 minutes away in Albacete.…
From 2 to 6 July 2025, Damian (12) played the La Roda International Basketball Tournament in Castilla-La Mancha. We drove down from Barcelona, 6â7 hours each way. The teams slept at Hotel Flor de la…
Damian has played the PuigcerdĂ tournament twice. In 2024 he played up with a team one year older and finished 4th. In June 2025 (13â15 June) he played in his own age group, and his…
We booked this one for a basketball weekend in June, with no plans beyond the hotel itself â which turned out to be a good way to see it, because the hotel is the interesting…
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From June 6th to June 8th, we spent an exciting weekend in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava. This trip was all about Marcâs basketball tournament, which filled our days with games, adrenaline, and team spirit.…
We stayed at Hotel GarbĂ Park in Lloret de Mar for two nights, 6â8 June 2025: my husband, Damian and me. Marc was in Lloret too, playing in a basketball tournament, but he stayed in…
We did not set out to become a family that plans holidays around basketball. It happened one camp at a time, and by now we have taken our two boys to play in Catalonia, Wisconsin,…
Getting Around 2025 This is an updated post about Barcelona. I hope you will find this article about Barcelona very usefull, once you come to visit this stunning city. Barcelona is the best city we have ever…