Sri Lanka family holidays

The mistake most family itineraries make is treating children as small adults. Four hours in a car is bearable for you and miserable for an eight year old, so we cap driving days at three hours and we build in afternoons that do nothing.

Sri Lanka happens to be unusually good for this. The distances are short, the food is gentle, the wildlife is genuinely exciting rather than a distant speck, and the hotels are used to families. Our specialists who plan these trips mostly have young children themselves, which is not a marketing line so much as the reason the pacing works.