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How to actually enjoy holidays when you’re a parent (hint: go all-inclusive)
by Antoanela Safca
26th Jun 2023
26th Jun 2023
Photograph: Getty
Let’s be honest, there’s no proper rest for parents on a holiday. All-inclusive holidays are not exactly ‘travel’, but they are mind expanding, they are oh-so-restful-and-replenishing for parents and they are staying on this writer's holiday rotation for the foreseeable future.
Like all snobs, I have a very clear idea of what’s good and what’s bad. And that clarity applies to travel – I know exactly what constitutes ‘great’ travel. I can boast about it at any ol’ gathering, when everybody else has only their regular, touristy holidays to talk about. I like nothing more than telling anyone who’d listen about the time I took a windowless bus for a winding four-hour drive in India, when...