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.
San Sebastián de Garabandal: Our Honest Family Stay From 10 to 13 July 2021 we stayed in an Airbnb room in San Sebastián de Garabandal, a mountain village in Cantabria, with Damian (8) and Marc…
Llanes, Asturias with Kids: Beaches, the Paseo de San Pedro and the Painted Cubes Llanes was our last stop in Asturias. On 10 July 2021 we drove east from our base in Novellana with Damian…
Playa de Aguilar, Asturias: A Family Beach Guide After the cliffs and stone coves around Cudillero, Playa de Aguilar is the easy one: golden sand, lifeguards, a big car park and a short flat walk…
Gijón with Kids: San Lorenzo Beach, Cimavilla and Where to Stay Gijón is the biggest city on the Asturian coast. It has a long city beach, an old fishing quarter on a headland, and a…
Lagos de Saliencia with Kids: Our Somiedo Lakes Hike The one mountain day of our July 2021 Asturias trip. We drove inland from the coast to Somiedo Natural Park with Damian (8) and Marc (5)…
Things to Do in Tapia de Casariego with Kids Tapia de Casariego is the last Asturian harbour town before Galicia, and the far western end of our July 2021 road trip with Damian (8) and…
Lastres, Asturias with Kids: The Village, the Beach and the Best View Lastres is a fishing village built almost vertically on a hillside above its harbour, in the municipality of Colunga, about 40 km east…
Valdés, a stunning municipality in the Asturias region of northern Spain, is a treasure trove of natural beauty, historical charm, and cultural richness. Our road trip through Asturias brought us to this enchanting area, where…
Cadavedo is a small village in the municipality of Valdés, on the western coast of Asturias between Cudillero and Luarca. It was named the most beautiful village in Asturias in 1954. Most people come for…
Cudillero is the fishing village on every Asturias postcard: pastel houses stacked up a steep hillside around a small harbour, facing the Cantabrian Sea like the seats of an amphitheatre. We visited in July 2021…
Luarca, Asturias with Kids: The White Harbour Town Luarca is called the Villa Blanca, the white town: whitewashed houses climbing up from a small fishing harbour where the Río Negro meets the sea. It’s about…
Novellana, Asturias: Where We Stayed Novellana is a tiny rural parish in the municipality of Cudillero, on the western coast of Asturias. It has no harbour, no promenade and very few people. It was our…
We drove from Barcelona to Asturias from 6 to 10 July 2021 with our two boys, Damian (8) and Marc (5), then carried on east into Cantabria. It took about eight hours of driving to…
We paid for this stay. A contact from my years in the hotel business got us a discount and upgraded our room and board, and I’ve said below exactly what that changed. We stayed at…
Can Fisher sits directly on the sand at Bogatell, which in Barcelona means two things at once: the view is genuinely lovely, and you are about to pay beachfront prices for rice. We took both…
Everyone who comes to Barcelona thinks about the football. Almost nobody thinks about the basketball, and for a family with a sports-mad child, that’s backwards. FC Barcelona’s basketball team plays at the Palau Blaugrana, an…
Barcelona’s old town is not one place. Ciutat Vella — literally “old city” — is four distinct districts pressed together, and knowing which one you’re in is the difference between a good afternoon and three…
We’ve been to Sitges with the kids more than once. The first time was a weekend in July 2017 with the grandparents, when the boys were tiny. The most recent was a day trip with…
Quick answer For my 35th birthday, my husband gave me a session at Flotarium Barcelona. It turned out to be one of the most genuinely restorative things I’ve done in this city — and also…
I stayed at Hotel Peralada during a work familiarisation trip organised by the Costa Brava tourist board, when I was representing the travel company I worked for. The stay was part of that trip, not…