Toddler-friendly
Toddlers are adorable, but they can pose a serious challenge when travelling. Being mobile and fearless, everything from antique ornaments in hotel rooms to infinity pools, high chair facilities (or a terrifying lack of) to restaurant menus have to be carefully considered. Traveling with a two year old makes you wonder why you weren't permanently on vacation when they were newborn, but with the right information you can absolutely travel as a family, enjoying luxurious and very welcoming family-friendly hotels that will cater as much to their need for a soft play area and a cot bed, as your need for a babysitter, a large bedroom and an excellent pre-dinner cocktail.
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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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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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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Terrass Hotel Paris
Terrass Hotel Paris is a bourgeois escape in bohemian Montmartre.
Set above the city on Montmartre, this four-star Terrass Hotel Paris offers sweeping views of the city's skyline and, most importantly, of the Eiffel Tower. There are spacious suites and adjoining rooms for families with children. Its airy location allows most of its rooms to offer breathtaking views over Paris. All...
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Victoria Palace Hotel Paris
The Victoria Palace Hotel is a Parisian classic in stylish Saint Germain.
The Victoria Palace Hotel Paris is situated in the swanky 6th arrondissement of Paris; this elegant address oozes style with its charming French interiors and elegant surroundings. But behind that old-world façade, you’ll find every modern convenience as well as a friendly staff willing to go above and beyond to...
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Le Bristol
Le Bristol in Paris is an opulent 8th Arrondissement favourite.
One of the most famous luxury hotels in Paris, Le Bristol is popular with celebrities, and you may even recognise its lavish interiors from Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. But here, even the youngest guests get the star treatment with an array of family-friendly goodies...
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