RECOMMENDED FAMILY HOLIDAYS - Cottages, Villas & Hotels

Recommended Family Holidays offers a choice of hundreds of family friendly holidays that are recommended by other families who have been there and experienced them - the best family holidays are those recommended by others!  Throughout the site, click on highlighted words to go to those pages:

• Self catering holiday cottages in France, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
• Holiday Villas in France, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal and Morocco
• Self catered or catered ski chalets and chalet hotels for family skiing holidays
• Bed and Breakfast
• Worldwide family friendly hotels
• Pet and dog friendly self catering holiday cottages
• Holiday accommodation with a swimming pool
• Large group family holiday home accommodation
• Self catering holiday cottages with a hot tub
• Wheelchair and disabled friendly holiday cottages
• Cottages with a catering service
• Riverside or lakeside self catering cottages
• Family friendly holidays in historic or interesting buildings

If you are looking for a highly recommended family friendly self catering holiday for the summer, why not have a look at our Top 25 Family Friendly Places to Stay - these are the most highly recommended family friendly self-catering properties across our whole website.

The owners of the properties we feature welcome families and many of these family friendly holiday cottages or gites have a number of facilities to make your holiday more enjoyable such as a pool, kids club, babysitting service or in-house catering service. We also encourage you to make your own family holiday recommendations or sign up to become a member for free and receive special offers via monthly email.

You might like to know that in our Special Offers and Late Availability section, we are currently showing any late availability in 2012 for May Bank Holiday and June Jubilee week; plus special offers throughout 2012 - many holiday cottages are available. If you need any help finding your family holiday then please just give me a shout.

We are also running our own special offer if you would like to advertise your own holiday property:

Sign up now & your fees will last until 31 August 2012. Half price flat advertising fee (£25/yr for 1 property, £37.50/yr for 2-4 properties and £45/yr for 5-10 properties) plus a £10 one-off set up fee. For more than 10 properties we charge £10/property per year. Price includes own website.

To find your family friendly self catering holiday cottage:

1. Select a country and or/region you wish to visit from the boxes on the left.

2. Search for a property via property summary table (listing their features) - the higher the property on the table, the more recommended it is. Or use the interactive maps available.

3. Click on the property name for more information, photos, availability calendar and an enquiry form - by contacting the owner via this form they know we are providing them and you a good service.

Thanks and enjoy your holiday.

Lucilla, mum to William 7 and Ben 6.

We run a Quarterly Prize draw for all genuine enquiries sent to our property owners. You will automatically be entered into the prize draw when you submit an enquiry form. The prize is a £50 voucher towards your next family holiday with one of our holiday cottage owners. Conditions apply including a time limit of when the voucher expires - holiday bookings must be made within 3 months of the voucher being issued and the family holiday must be taken within 1 year of the voucher date. The voucher must be used for a holiday with one of the property owners who advertise on this website at the time of booking the holiday. The voucher can only be redeemed at the time the full balance of the holiday is paid (not at the time a deposit is paid). For a full list of terms and conditions, please contact me.