Child-friendly hotels
Smith hotels are romantic places to stay – but what if you also want a family-friendly hotel? Smith & Kids is our cherry-picked selection of hotels that welcome you and your children. Not all of them have supervised crèches, children's meals and trampoline-equipped adventure playgrounds (though some have all three), but they do deliver what’s important – a child-friendly welcome in the stylish surroundings you’ve come to expect.
- Hotels
- Self-catering
- € £ $
We've found 109 Smith-approved child-friendly hotels
St Moritz Hotel
Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Style
- Surf-side family HQ
- Setting
- Rugged Camel Estuary
Not just a stylish base for surfers and a haven for sandcastling families, this revamped modernist resort also offers contemporary apartments and a top-class…
- Best for
- Small, surfing Smiths
Lower Slaughter Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Refined country seat
- Setting
- Gloucestershire’s prettiest village
This stately Cotswolds country manor knocks the stuffing out of traditional rural retreats, with all the boutique-hotel trimmings you'd expect of a designer pad…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages welcomed.
Barnsley House
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Super-stylish manor house
- Setting
- Gorgeous Gloucestershire gardens
The ultra-cool modern furniture doesn’t seem remotely out of place in 17th-century Barnsley House; this spa-enhanced boutique hotel is set in beautiful…
- Best for
- Well behaved babies and children of any age.
Cowley Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Funked-up stately home
- Setting
- Acres of spectacular Cotswolds
To call the look ‘designer’ doesn’t do justice to Cowley Manor’s funky, flamboyant aesthetic; the exuberant decor is a world away from the usual…
- Best for
- Children welcome.
Cotswold House
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- State-of-the-art comfort zone
- Setting
- Charming Chipping Campden
If you want your country retreat with all the mod cons, then Cotswold House hotel is your dream designer pad, in a breathtaking rural setting. It's a…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages are welcome.
Rectory Hotel
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Period‑detail family retreat
- Setting
- Walled gardens in Wiltshire
With its open log fires, canoodle‑friendly armchairs and all that crisp Egyptian linen waiting for you in the bedrooms upstairs, Rectory Hotel in the…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages warmly welcomed.
Calcot Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Family-friendly farmhouse
- Setting
- Homely heart of Gloucestershire
Few places can boast being both the perfect venue for a child-friendly stay and for a romantic rendezvous, but coddling Cotswolds spa retreat Calcot Manor has…
- Best for
- Tots, toddlers, tykes and teenagers
Higher Westcott Farm
Devon, United Kingdom
- Style
- Home-grown gastro glamour
- Setting
- Wild and wuthering Dartmoor
A 300-year-old Devon longhouse in a tiny moorland-hugged hamlet, Higher Westcott Farm is a dainty rustic wonder with fine food and a homely hearthside feel.
- Best for
- Babes in arms, teens in boots.















