Sonesta's new Young Royals programme brings crowns, quests and castle set-ups for kids to five Royal Sonesta hotels, including Toronto's Yorkville. A family hook for city stays.
Lauren Smith · Oct 11, 2026 · 2 minDisney's fourth Wish-class ship, home to the first Encanto stage musical, sails from Port Everglades from 18 December 2027. Bookings open 19 October.
Alicia Loveday · Oct 9, 2026Construction has started on Club Med's second Canadian mountain resort, a ski-in, ski-out all-inclusive at Tremblant opening December 2028. Lift passes and lessons are in the price.
Alicia Loveday · Oct 9, 2026The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburón has finished a multi-million-dollar redesign with lighter rooms, a new bar and restaurant, Palmera, and a French breakfast room.
Lauren Smith · Oct 9, 2026The SpongeBob Musical will be the headline show on Hero of the Seas, Royal Caribbean's fourth Icon Class ship, from Miami in August 2027. It is a family-cruise closer.
Ranthambore National Park's core zones reopened on 1 October, and JW Marriott's resort there, Marriott's 10,000th hotel, starts its first full season.
Oman Hassan · Oct 9, 2026Japanese city hotel rooms are small and private rentals are capped. MIMARU's two new Osaka properties show how staffed apartment hotels work for families of four to six.
MSC World Asia sails from Barcelona on 4 December with six production shows and 33 musicians. A year-round Western Mediterranean base makes winter Med families an easy sell.
London's 2026 festive calendar runs from early November to early January. Advisors who lock in rinks, light trails and shows now avoid December sell-outs.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 6, 2026The Civil Aviation Bill will make airlines seat under-14s with a parent for free and fix simple name errors at no charge. Useful for advisors, but not yet law.
Jessie Isberg · Oct 6, 2026New spa treatments at Bota Bota, two VR shows into January, a Monday bungee rate and a new artisan market fill the Old Port's autumn calendar.
U.S. readers named Victoria the world's best small city for a fourth straight year. Four local hotels placed…
Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have accepted the Mackenzie River’s nomination as a Canadian Heritage River. Each of…
Nine Marriott hotels in Mexico and the Caribbean have new rooms, restaurants or beach clubs, from an US$11…
Paradiso, the El Born bar behind a pastrami shop's fridge door, has won the Rémy Martin Legend of…
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