Child-friendly hotels and family stays

France’s south-westernmost region is a lush, green pocket of land caught between the mountains and the windswept Atlantic coast.

Corsica is the ultimate short-haul adventure, tightly packing in all of the natural world’s best bits. It’s got mountains, fields and shimmering coastline. And it has a wild side too: wild boar wander and tortoises totter freely by your feet.

On the coast that defined seaside glamour, you can never be too rich or too brown.

Courchevel has built a reputation as a high-altitude, high-living resort where the beautiful people come to see and be seen, yet every winter it’s the vastness of the Trois Vallées that steals the show.

In the warm valleys of southwestern France, where the Dordogne, Isle and Lot rivers wriggle their way to the Atlantic, the lush landscape, sunny days and mild temperatures combine to produce perfect conditions for grapes and truffles.

Paris is a dream project for pedestrians, with endless secrets hidden away from all the wonderful clichés.

The south-west area of Provence is a land of light and colour, where the languid river Rhône winds its way through fruit orchards and fields of lavender before melting into the watery maze of the Camargue.

Rock-star villas, luxury boutiques, Chanel bikinis... For a seaside fishing village, St Tropez has evolved admirably.