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🏰 The Family Ten

The World's Most Luxurious Kids & Family Hotels

Luxury with children is its own discipline — one that only a handful of hotels on earth have truly mastered. These are the ten properties where world-class kids clubs, baby concierges and genuine adventure meet five-star craft, so that every generation checks out happier than it arrived.

  1. Sani Resort's marina and pine-backed white-sand beach on the Kassandra peninsula, Halkidiki1

    Halkidiki · Greece

    Sani Resort

    Europe's benchmark family estate — a private 1,000-acre reserve where the kids clubs set the world standard.

    Europe's most decorated family resort — a private 1,000-acre ecological reserve on Halkidiki's Kassandra peninsula with five hotels, seven kilometres of white-sand beach and childcare that sets the world standard.

    9.1 / 10
  2. Atlantis The Palm's coral-pink arch rising over the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai2

    Dubai · United Arab Emirates

    Atlantis The Palm

    The most exciting hotel on earth for children: Aquaventure, the Lost Chambers and suites under the lagoon.

    The apex of the Palm Jumeirah and the Middle East's definitive family mega-resort — a 1,500-room ocean-themed palace wrapped around Aquaventure, the world's largest waterpark, and the Lost Chambers aquarium.

    9.0 / 10
  3. Spanish-revival towers of Four Seasons Resort Orlando above lakes and fairways at Walt Disney World3

    Orlando · United States

    Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort

    Disney magic with Four Seasons polish — the grown-up way to do Orlando with kids.

    The luxury answer to a Disney holiday: a vast Spanish-revival resort inside the Walt Disney World gates with a water park, Fazio golf and rooftop Spanish steak.

    9.2 / 10
  4. Jungle-backed beach and castaway villa rooflines of Soneva Fushi in the Baa Atoll, Maldives4

    Maldives · Maldives

    Soneva Fushi

    Barefoot Maldivian luxury whose mushroom-domed Den is the most imaginative kids club in the tropics.

    The original barefoot-luxury island in the Baa Atoll, where vast castaway villas meet outdoor cinema, stargazing and serious sustainability.

    9.5 / 10
  5. Gardens and beachfront of Forte Village Resort on Sardinia's southern coast at Santa Margherita di Pula5

    Santa Margherita di Pula · Italy

    Forte Village Resort

    Sardinia's sporting city for families — academies from football to fencing inside 50 garden acres.

    A garden city of hotels on Sardinia's southern coast, with sport academies, a thalasso spa and family programming unmatched in the Mediterranean.

    8.5 / 10
  6. The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman on the white sand of Seven Mile Beach6

    Seven Mile Beach · Cayman Islands

    The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman

    Seven Mile Beach plus Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment — the Caribbean's smartest kids programme.

    The Caribbean's most complete family flagship — 144 acres from Seven Mile Beach to the North Sound, where Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment programme turns children into marine naturalists.

    8.8 / 10
  7. Grand Velas Riviera Maya's pools and palms meeting the Caribbean near Playa del Carmen7

    Playa del Carmen · Mexico

    Grand Velas Riviera Maya

    The all-inclusive that plays at Five Diamond level, with a family world of its own on the Mayan coast.

    The resort that redefined all-inclusive as genuine luxury — three environments across jungle and Caribbean beach near Playa del Carmen, with AAA Five Diamond dining and a kids-to-teens programme as polished as its spa.

    8.9 / 10
  8. Martinhal Sagres villas above the golden sand of Martinhal beach on the Algarve8

    Sagres · Portugal

    Martinhal Sagres Beach Family Resort

    The pioneer of designed-for-families luxury — baby concierges and five kids clubs above a wild Atlantic beach.

    The pioneer of designed-for-families luxury — a village of contemporary villas and ocean-view rooms above Martinhal beach at Europe's dramatic south-western tip, where babies are as welcome as their parents.

    8.6 / 10
  9. Lagoon, palms and beach wings of One&Only Le Saint Géran on its Mauritius peninsula9

    Mauritius · Mauritius

    One&Only Le Saint Géran

    Mauritius' grande dame, where the KidsOnly club gets the same tailoring as the peninsula suites.

    Mauritius's grande dame on a private east-coast peninsula, reborn after full renovation with a kilometre of lagoon-front sand.

    9.2 / 10
  10. Stone façade and awnings of Le Bristol Paris on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré10

    Paris · France

    Le Bristol Paris

    Proof a palace can love children — Paris' family flagship with its rooftop pool and famous house cats.

    The Oetker Collection's flagship palace on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, prized for its courtyard garden, rooftop pool and three-Michelin-starred Epicure.

    9.5 / 10

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The Family Ten is reviewed continually as the Browntravels editors visit new properties — exceptional family hotels are always considered for future editions of the list.

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