7 days€€ItalyDolomites & Lake Garda
Mountains first, then swimming and a theme park
- Best for ages
- 5+
- Pace
- Moderate
- Driving
- Moderate driving
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Family trips of a week or less
A week is the length most families actually have. These routes are built to fit one — no more than two bases, short transfers, and nothing that needs a fortnight to make sense.
8 trips in this collection
- 7 days€€Italy
7 days€€AustriaAustrian Alps & Lakes
Salt mines, cable cars and lake swimming
- Best for ages
- 4+
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Driving
- A little driving
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7 days€€CyprusCyprus All-Inclusive
One hotel, one week, almost no planning
- Best for ages
- All ages
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Driving
- No car needed
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7 days€€GreeceCrete Family Week
Beaches, ruins and a hire car
- Best for ages
- 3+
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Driving
- Moderate driving
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7 days€€GreeceRhodes All-Inclusive
A resort week with a medieval city attached
- Best for ages
- All ages
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Driving
- No car needed
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5 days€€€UAEDubai Family Break
Water parks, desert and a day in Abu Dhabi
- Best for ages
- 4+
- Pace
- Moderate
- Driving
- No car needed
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4 days€€ItalyRome Family Break
Ancient history in short, well-timed doses
- Best for ages
- 7+
- Pace
- Moderate
- Driving
- No car needed
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7 days€€€NorwayNorway Fjords by Train
Scenery you reach by train, ferry and funicular
- Best for ages
- 4+
- Pace
- Relaxed
- Driving
- No car needed
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Other ways to narrow it down
Most families start from a fixed point — the month, the ages, the amount of driving. Each of these is a ready-made shortlist.
- Where to Go with Kids in August: Trips That Handle the HeatAugust is the hardest month to plan well. Southern Europe is at its hottest and most expensive, school holidays fill every resort, and the places that look best in photographs are often the least comfortable with children. These are the trips on our catalog that hold up in August — mountains where the temperature stays reasonable, northern latitudes where the season is at its peak, and coastlines where the sea does the work.
- Europe with Kids: Family Trips by Age, Pace & MonthShort flights, no jet lag and a wide spread of trip types — Europe is where most families start. The range on this page runs from an all-inclusive week where nothing is planned, to alpine valleys where cable cars make real mountain walking possible at five, to a fjord route that never needs a car.
- Family Trips Without a Car: Trains, Ferries & TransfersDriving abroad with children in the back is the part of a holiday most parents would happily skip — unfamiliar roads, car seats to sort out, and somebody having to stay alert at the end of a flight. These trips are built on trains, ferries and pre-booked transfers instead. Every one of them can be done without ever sitting behind a wheel.
- Best Trips for Kids Ages 5–10: Ideas by Pace & BudgetFive to ten is the widest window a family gets. Children at this age can walk a real distance, sit through a train journey and remember what they saw, but still find a deer park or a water slide more memorable than a cathedral. These trips are shaped for that: physical, varied, and built around one main thing a day.
- Nature Trips with Kids: Cable Cars, Fjords & Short TrailsNature with children works when the scenery does not depend on a hard walk to reach it. Cable cars, mountain railways, fjord ferries and flat lake loops are what make these routes possible with a five-year-old — the view arrives before anyone runs out of legs.
- Beach Holidays with Kids: Calm Bays & Easy SwimmingNot every beach suits a family. What matters is the entry gradient, the shelter from wind, and how far the sand is from where you sleep. These trips are built around coastlines that are genuinely easy with children, from an all-inclusive week where the sea is fifty metres away to an island route with a beach finish.