Group Accommodation are perfect for family breaks with toddlers. Many offer lovely enclosed gardens with play equipment, others provide a box full of toys to keep little ones entertained, or a library of children’s DVDs. Many can provide babysitting services or offer handy kids’ equipment such as high chairs, plastic crockery, stair gates, or baby monitors. Others even boast their own on-site woodland nature trails, or even friendly resident farm animals.
Here are our top picks:
No. 10, Brecon
This town house offers comfort, elegance and plenty of space for friends and families looking to spend time together in e charming town of Brecon in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Full of lovely features the house is perfect for families with children who will levitate to the converted cellar den with Sky Plus and table tennis table. The first floor drawing room has floor to ceiling French patio doors, allowing you to make full use of the lovely sloping rear garden that rises up above the house to gives views of both Pen y Fan. The kitchen opens onto a sheltered courtyard beneath the garden where evenings can be spent socialising making use of the gas BBQ and out door tables an chairs – the secret to be found is historic ice-house, where there are further table and chairs if the weather is not kind! Sleeps 14 with 7 bedrooms.
The Shippon, Devon
The Shippon is a detached converted barn with magnificent views down to and over a completely unspoilt, building-free stretch of the navigable river Dart. You approach the property down about a half mile private tarmac drive and there is plenty of parking space once you reach the Shippon. This is a marvellous place to bring your children and their friends or your friends and their children! There is a spacious games room with table tennis and pool table on the first floor. There is also a small colour television. There are some good walks, excellent child-friendly pubs/restaurants, bird watching and badgers, foxes, deer and even an osprey has been seen. Sleeps up to 18 with 10 bedrooms.
Croft House, Pembrokeshire
Perfect for big families, upstairs is a roomy lounge with a Clearview wood burning stove and leather sofas where you can watch TV, listen to music, set up wist drives or relax together. All the facilities of the site are available including the indoor heated swimming pool and leisure facilities, the Big Play Barn and the outdoor play areas. There is a Big Play Barn with ride-on toys, play houses, soft play and adventure playground. They provide 2 travel cots, high chairs and bedguards. Sleeps up to 12 with 6 bedrooms.
Llys Tanwg, North Wales
Llys Tanwg is an absolutely top-class location for a quiet getaway or a large family gathering, with an endless amount of local activities for all ages and dispositions. There are large private and secluded gardens, including woodland areas with some great climbing trees, as well as a log cabin for table tennis, pool, darts and table football. The beach is wonderful, only a 10 minute walk away, with 4 miles of wide sandy beach and dunes in one direction, rock pools in the other, all safe for swimming. Sleeps up to 13 with 7 bedrooms.
Haulfryn House, North Wales
This house will instantly grab your attention, the entrance hall leads into a large comfortable lounge affording fabulous views, with door leading out to sun terrace and gardens. The gardens offer a BBQ, seating areas, all-weather tennis court, croquet, badminton, a fish pond and an “adventure heaven” for children, ideal for hide and seek or treasure hunts. Not to mention it’s 2 minutes from the safe sandy beach and high chairs & travel cots available. Sleeps up to 24 with 12 bedrooms.
23 August 2013
Brilliant blog, Haulfryn House looks lovely!