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.
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…
We’ve stayed at Hotel Roger de Flor by Seleqtta twice, in two very different rooms. The first time we had the Presidential 360 Views room, with a jacuzzi in the room and the whole bay…
Empuriabrava is called the “Venice of Spain” because it’s built on water: more than 24 km of navigable canals, the largest residential marina in Europe, with a boat moored behind almost every house. We came…
I stayed at Helen Berger on a work trip to Valencia, on my own, with a laptop and a full diary. The hotel is now part of Room Mate Collection and trades as Room Mate…
Our trip to Madrid, to the capital of Spain was fascinating, vibrant and filled with lots of emotions. I can firmly say that we felt Madrid with all our five senses. Madrid is a city…
We spent a weekend at Alba Seleqtta in Lloret de Mar in summer 2021 , with Damian, then 8, and Marc, who was 5. Two nights, on half board. It’s a hotel built around families:…
An hour inland from Barcelona, near Igualada, people fly. Not metaphorically — there are thermals over the Anoia countryside good enough that this is one of Catalonia’s centres for air sports, and you can go…
Two hours inland from Barcelona there’s a reservoir on the Segre where you can rent a kayak, paddle out into a wild fauna reserve, and be the only people on the water on a weekday.…
There was some time, you dreamy of a trip to Barcelona. Or, maybe you visited this beautiful city and want to come back and enjoy it again. During these times, you don´t know when you…
We moved to Barcelona in 2010 and have lived here ever since, with two children. When you arrive as a tourist you see a completely different city from the one you live in — and…
Islands are the easiest family holidays we know: short flights from Barcelona, beaches within reach of every base, and a natural limit to how much driving you can do. These are the European islands we’ve…
We spent four days in the Basque Country with kids at the end of December 2019. Damian was 6, Marc was 3, and there were eight of us in one rented 9-seater: my parents, my…
During our Christmas adventure to the Basque Country we left for our last day a charming town Hondarribia. Why Hondarribia is worth a morning with kids Hondarribia is a colorful fishing village that is both…
We spent one day in San Sebastián with kids at the end of December 2019. Damian was 6 and Marc was 3. We drove in from our apartment in Hendaye, about 25 km away, parked…
Zumaia is the small Basque town where Daenerys lands on Dragonstone in Game of Thrones season 7. That scene was filmed on Itzurun beach, below a wall of rock layers stacked like the pages of…
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe is a tiny hermitage on a rock in the Bay of Biscay. It’s joined to the coast by a stone bridge and 241 steps, and it played Dragonstone in Game of…