My advice on family holidays in Dubai – in The Times

Dubai – soulless glitz factory or fabulous family getaway? Find out in the article I wrote for the Times website (subscription required). I'll be posting some additional Dubai advice and reviews, along with pictures, here soon so stay tuned. In the meantime, read my family guide to Dubai in the...

Half-term idea for kids: learn polo in Scotland

If your children have fallen behind in their Downton Abbey lifestyle skills (terrible, really), a half-term stay at The Gleneagles Hotel should fix them right up, what-what. The five-star Scottish resort with its revered golf course doesn’t content itself with a kids’ club stuffed with the typical distractions. Instead, it introduces kids to the countrified pleasures every budding gentleman, gentlelady and...