Pre-Teen friendly
There is a distinct shift in children of a certain age. Not yet fully-fledged adolescents, they are too grown up to be satiated by the offering of a young kid's club to keep them entertained on a family holiday lasting more than a weekend. So whether a hotel offers up ever-popular Wii stations in-room or water sports and activities perfect for pre-teens, horse riding and jet skiing or language lessons and art classes, our selection of luxury, family-friendly hotels have an excellent array of fantastic offerings for boys and girls not ready for a teen club with its discos and sleepovers, but too old for the storytime comforts of baby and toddler clubs.
Calabash Hotel Grenada
Suites dotted across tropical gardens, a diving and water sports centre, and even a Gary Rhodes restaurant can be found at Grenada's Calabash hotel.
A beautiful location on L'Anse Aux Épines beach with 30 suites dotted across eight acres of tropical gardens defines the Calabash Hotel Grenada. The suites vary in size but all accommodate families and have a view out to the Caribbean Sea across the hotel’s manicured gardens. The hotel has two restaurants, one...
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Hotel Place d’Armes Montreal
The Place d’Armes Hôtel & Suites, both charming and historic is a 19th-century neoclassical building on Old Montreal’s cobbled streets.
The Hôtel Place d’Armes Montreal is both charming and historic. This 19th-century neoclassical building sits among Old Montreal’s cobbled streets, across the square from Notre-Dame Basilica and just a hop, skip and jump from the St-Lawrence River. The rooms offer ample space and many have exposed brick walls...
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Loews Hotel Vogue
Recently renovated, this once business-orientated hotel is now the new kid on the family-friendly block in downtown Montreal.
Smack in the middle of downtown Montreal’s main shopping district, you can’t get more central than the Loews Hôtel Vogue. This used to be mostly a business hotel, but after a big renovation it’s now rolling out the welcome mat for families with kid-friendly maps of the city, babysitting services and healthy,...
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Ritz Carlton Montreal
The luxurious ‘Grande Dame of Sherbrooke Street,’ The Ritz Carlton is steeped in local history.
Anyone travelling with kids knows a chosen hotel can make or break a trip, but you’ll never go wrong with a Ritz Carlton. Gloriously restored, the tubs in this Ritz Carlton Montreal are big enough to swim in, baby cribs come perfectly made with pretty linens and the staff treat tots (and grown-ups) like long lost...
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Aguas de Ibiza
Located in Santa Eulalia, Aguas de Ibiza is a lifestyle concept and spa, as well as a hotel.
Located in Santa Eulalia, Aguas de Ibiza is a lifestyle concept and spa, as well as a hotel. This may sound a tad pretentious, but the result is a very relaxed and elegant hotel (they use Feng Shui principles when considering the design and layout of all 112 bedrooms); the hotel has fabulous restaurants and bars (they...
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Grand Palladium Palace Resort and Spa
Located at the quiet end of Playa d'En Bossa, The Grand Palladium Resort & Spa has fabulous amenities for both big and little guests.
Smack on the beachfront on the quieter end of Ibiza’s legendary Playa d’En Bossa, The Grand Palladium Resort and Spa is shining after several rounds of investment in recent years; the 411 luxurious rooms are spacious enough for families and the resort has plenty to keep both children and adults happy. The Master...
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The Beverly Hills Hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel is a pink palace with a resort vibe.
The trappings of LA’s glamorous history are in abundance in the enticing 208-room Beverly Hills Hotel, which first opened its doors in 1912. The setting, spread around 12 acres of tropical gardens, with tennis courts and a palm tree-lined swimming pool offers families bags of room to relax. And, of course, the 90210...
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Sheraton Rio Hotel and Resort
Sheraton Rio Hotel & Resort is a big-name beachside resort with a first-class reputation.
Situated on a quiet cove just a short distance to Ipanema Beach, the Sheraton Rio Hotel and Resort has 559 rooms, all with private balconies and 24-hour room service. Offering every amenity under the sun from tennis courts to a spa with a health club, three outdoor pools to an outdoor Jacuzzi, the whole family will be...
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Tuakaza Exclusive Guest House
Tuakaza is a jungle hideaway in Tijuca Rainforest, the world's largest urban forest.
A new addition to the city in 2012, the pièce de résistance at Tuakaza Exclusive Guest House is the natural swimming pool fed by a natural waterfall. Situated in the São Conrado district, this boutique hotel has just six rooms, each named after a different Brazilian fruit – acai, papaya and kiwi are some such...
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Copacabana Palace Hotel
This 1920’s Orient Express hotel, Copacabana Palace, is the grand dame of Rio hotels.
Quite simply, the 245-room Copacabana Palace Hotel is the crème de la crème of the city's hotels. The guestbook reads like a red carpet roll call: Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela and Tom Cruise have all, at one time or another, rested their heads on the Palace’s finest pillows. What is more, this...
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