The single biggest change you can make on a family trip is to stay longer in fewer places. Two or three bases is plenty for ten days.
Keep drives under three hours where possible, and plan them for after lunch when little ones may sleep.
Fewer stops, longer stays
Choose stays with space: a villa with a pool, a family suite, a garden. Everyone needs somewhere to be apart.
Children remember the turtle, not the temple. Plan for the turtle.
And build in one activity each day that the children choose. It changes everything.
Journeys inspired by this storyBali, rice and reef10 days · from £2,150
David HaleOperations
Plans journeys for Elsewhere and writes about the places that stay with them.
