
Sweden Family Holiday (2 adults + 2 children)
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Total £665.96 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.
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Late July to August is the only window most British families get, so I built this shortlist around it: three family summer holidays of 7, 10 or 14 days, each for 2 adults and 2 children, with the children staying free in the room.
Take classic Costa Brava heat, an Austrian lake summer with mountains on the doorstep, or a cool, light Swedish one. The hotel and the departure date are yours to choose.

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Total £665.96 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.

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Total £630.77 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.

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Total £648.36 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.

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Total £806.72 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.

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Total £701.15 for 2 people, 7-14 days, all surcharges included (incl. booking fee £16.71).Price shown is based on 2 persons, excluding any tourist tax.
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Schools break up in late July, every airline knows it, and the same fortnight gets expensive everywhere at once. So I keep this category small and honest: three family summer holidays of 7, 10 or 14 days, each for 2 adults and 2 children, with the children staying free in the room. You choose the departure date and the hotel yourself, which is exactly what you need when term dates leave you no wriggle room.
Lloret de Mar is where I'd point first-timers. Hotel Samba and the htop Royal Star & SPA both take families in their stride, and the Almirall apartments give you apartment space instead of a hotel room, which earns its keep by day ten of a fortnight. Prefer somewhere quieter? Roses, further up the coast, has the Prestige Goya Park. The travel is the painless part: budget airlines fly to Girona from most UK airports, the hotels sit 30 to 40 minutes from the airport, and Barcelona works as the alternative. Count on 22 to 26°C, and accept the honest catch that comes with it: in August this coast is hot and busy, because half of Europe is on holiday at exactly the same time.
The same Spanish holiday lets you swap coasts entirely and base yourselves in Sanxenxo, on Galicia's green Atlantic edge. The honest pitch is the weather: 17 to 20°C instead of the Mediterranean's mid twenties, fresher air, and countryside that stays green right through August. You trade sunbathing certainty for cool sleep, and with small children I'd call that a fair exchange. Getting there asks slightly more of you. Fly to Santiago de Compostela or Vigo, or do what I'd do: fly to Porto, pick up a hire car and drive north across the border.
Seefeld in Tirol sits on a sunny plateau at 1180 m, and the family pick there is DAS KALTSCHMID - Familotel Tirol, with the Appartementhaus Solstein as the apartment route. Down at Zell am See you have the Seehotel Sissi, or the Ski & Golf Suites by Alpin Rentals, which include the Zell am See-Kaprun Summercard: cable cars and the lakeside lidos are covered before you have unpacked. Learn the alpine summer rhythm on day one. Thunderstorms build in the afternoon, so take the mountain in the morning and save the lake for after lunch. In August you can still stand on snow on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier, which buys you a week of playground credibility back home. Fly to Innsbruck, Salzburg or Munich; Munich to Seefeld is about two hours.
Sweden is the contrarian choice, and you pick your base. Stockholm offers the Aiden by Best Western Stockholm City and the Best Western Plus Park City Hammarby Sjöstad. Helsingborg gives you the Scandic Helsingborg Nord, and in Kalmar the Rasta Kalmar sits by the bridge across to Öland, which is the day out I'd plan first. Flights land at Stockholm Arlanda. Two honest notes before you book. Lake water holds at 17 to 20°C, so swims are bracing rather than bath-warm. And around 20 June, Midsummer shuts much of the country for a day or two, so plan a quiet day then rather than shopping or museums. In return you get evenings that stay light absurdly late, the kind where children are still playing outside at ten and nobody quite believes the clock.
All three holidays share one shape: 7, 10 or 14 days, 2 adults and 2 children, children staying free in the room, on a room-only basis. With children I count room-only as a feature rather than a gap, since nobody pays for a buffet a fussy eater refuses, and you eat when the day allows instead of when a dining room opens. The free choice of departure date is the part built for British term dates: the late July start every family is stuck with is exactly the date you can book, and you stretch to 10 or 14 days if the budget and the patience allow. Pick the hotel, pick the date, and you have done the hard part.