Family holidays are opportunities for very special experiences and valuable time together. Spend time enjoying the freedom from daily obligations and appointments, explore the surroundings and have the chance to experience all kinds of exciting things.

Today we present you eight hotels that are perfectly designed for families and make your holiday enjoyable relaxing for everyone.

1. A trip to the mountains with the whole family: Eco Park Hotel Azalea

“Freedom and Childhood” is the motto for family vacations at Eco Park Hotel Azalea in the Italian region of Trentino. The family hotel offers your children an exciting adventure holiday in nature while you enjoy a few hours of relaxation for two. The offers for the little ones are varied: from night walks with a lantern, trampolining and slacklining, longboarding, gardening and baking to the treehouse where they can search for the goblins of the Fleimstals and the miniature studio for little artist just to name a few of their options! Here your little ones will find it difficult to get bored! During all activities, an emphasis is placed on understanding and learning about processes in nature: “Perceiving, understanding, and learning with all senses” is the motto of the excursions on offer.

The colorful eco-hotel is perfectly suited to the needs of families and ensures a relaxing holiday for young and old alike. Whether it’s yoga, a cozy chat with your hosts, a delicious cup of fair-trade coffee, hiking in the mountains or simply relaxing in the garden with a book – at the Eco Park Hotel Azalea, the whole family can recharge their batteries!

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2. Lakeside family holiday: Hotel Speicher

The location of the Hotel Speicher alone is perfect for an active family holiday: it is located directly on the banks of the Ziegelsee complete with its own jetty – and there are ten more lakes closeby! Water babies both big and small can jump directly into the lake in the morning and let off some steam. The diverse lake landscape is also perfect for canoeing, sailing and much more. A short 15-minute walk will take you to the old town of Schwerin and from April to October the ships of the “White Fleet” shuttle back and forth several times a day between the moorings of the hotel and the impressive Schwerin Castle.

But the Hotel Speicher is also an exciting eye-catcher in itself: behind the brick walls of the building, grain used to be stored! The rooms with connecting doors are perfect for families. And by the way, you can spend the night here in a climate-friendly way. To maintain this status, the hotel has taken many different measures. One of them is the renouncement of minibars in the rooms – instead of small power guzzlers, there is 24-hour room service! This is just one example of many of the hotel’s commitment to sustainability. 🙂

3. The Maldives for big and small: Gili Lankanfushi

In the Maldives, you can do much more than “just” honeymoon or spend some time together as – you can also spend a unique and exciting yet relaxing family holiday here. The activities at Gili Lankanfushi in the Kids Exploration or the Gili Youth Discovery Program, which are specially designed for children and teenagers, provide a lot of variety. While you relax and enjoy a couple of hours together, the kids will get to know the organic garden, cook with Chef Hari, and explore the underwater world with marine biologist Sarah Davies on a treasure hunt and learn about Maldivian art and culture. Starting to get green with envy? Don’t worry, many of the activities are also available for adults! 🙂

Besides the special programs, the crystal-clear sea invites everyone to swim and snorkel, the Gili Veshi Marine Research Center helps guests learn about the state of the sea and the corals and the daily Local Hour brings a different aspect of Maldivian culture each day.

4. Time together at the Baltic Sea: Bio Kinder- und Familienhotel Gut Nisdorf

Quality time together as a family, but also relaxing and spending a few hours apart now and then – that doesn’t work anywhere else as well as in Gut Nisdorf! As parents themselves, the owners Sabine and Jürg know exactly what is important on a family holiday and have therefore designed their bio-hotel to perfectly meet the needs of young and old. The twelve apartments with two to three rooms each provide enough privacy and are equipped with a small kitchen, but you shouldn’t miss the delicious organic food!

From Monday to Friday childcare is offered for all children over the age of one. The programs are age-specific, so there are not programs for every age every day – but that doesn’t matter, because there is more than enough to experience and discover here. The large garden with a playground, Kettcars and more, a natural swimming pool and the Baltic Sea coast with beach, pony riding or canoeing, which can be reached in a few minutes on foot – all this provides a lot of variety and fun in nature. And if the weather is bad, playrooms, foosball tables and more are waiting inside for the little bundles of energy. The wellness area with bio-sauna, steam bath and more provides for some relaxation in between. By the way, children can also have their first wellness experiences here 🙂

Read more: A hotel for everyone: Arrive and unwind at Gut Nisdorf

5. Surrounded by the nature of South Tyrol: Hotel Rinner

The Hotel Rinner is situated on the Ritten in Oberbozen and is perfect for an exciting family holiday in and with nature. Besides exciting activities such as a ride on the Ritten cable car and the cable car, swimming in the Wolfsgruben lake, romping on the huge playground with trampoline, swing, foosball and table tennis, skiing and tobogganing in winter and mountain biking and hiking in summer, there is something really extraordinary to experience here: An absolute highlight for all ages is a visit to Hotel Rinner’s own organic beekeeping.

The family has been keeping bees for over half a century – today, hotel owner and passionate beekeeper Paul Rinner is responsible for this pastime. On the bee nature trail, you will learn more about the indispensable insects, during Api-wellness treatments you will benefit from the health advantages of the beehive air and at breakfast, you will enjoy the delicious organic honey. Important note for all bee lovers: The bees of the Hotel Rinner are left with enough honey for their winter supply!

Read more: Relaxing under the sign of the bees: Api-wellness in South Tyrol

6. For little adventurers and big explorers: Inkaterra

The Inkaterra hotels are scattered throughout southern Peru: from Cusco to Machu Picchu, through the rainforest around the Madre de Dios River. In all hotels, there are special programs for the little explorers to introduce them to the extraordinary and diverse Peruvian nature.

On the trail with an Inkaterra Explorer Guide, they will follow the tracks of native plants, animals and insects, meet spectacled bears (Paddington says hello :-)) in the reception center of the Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel, learn about traditional farming methods at the Earth-to-Table initiative of the Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba, and are woken up in the morning by howler monkeys in the Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica or can make their own chocolate. The incredible biodiversity of Peruvian nature amazes adults and children alike and makes for an exciting journey and long-lasting memories.

Read more: From the rainforest to the cloud forest and Machu Picchu

7. Vacations in the countryside: Okelmann’s

The Okelmann family has been welcoming guests to their eco-hotel Okelmann’s for four generations! Situated in the small community of Warpe in Lower Saxony, it is the perfect starting point for cycling tours through the picturesque natural landscape – make sure to ask for the snack to go, which will renew your strength on your journey. There are rooms with connecting doors especially for families as well as a playroom where the little ones can easily bake many delicious cakes and pastries while outside the adventure playground is just waiting to be explored. 🙂

8. Eco-family holiday in Tyrol: Biohotel Grafenast

Whether winter or summer: at the Biohotel Grafenast in Tyrol it is always family time. “Time for me – time for you” is the motto of the hotel, which focuses on the balance between shared experiences and the “every man for himself”. For the little ones, in particular, exciting adventures in nature are on the agenda – with a professional to accompany them on their excursions and activities as well as with peers on the playground.

Read more: Sustainability pioneers: Peter Unterlechner from Biohotel Grafenast

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