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 41 Smith-approved child-friendly hotels
Hotel Endsleigh
Devon, United Kingdom
- Style
- Fairy-tale fishing lodge
- Setting
- Unspoilt Devonshire woodland
Hotel Endsleigh, a grade I-listed fishing lodge, is insanely pretty, and its setting magical – a remote valley between Devon's Dartmoor and Cornwall's Bodmin…
- Best for
- Babies and children who love the great outdoors.
Hotel Tresanton
Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Style
- Breezy beach house
- Setting
- Chocolate-box Cornish village
A former yachting club, Hotel Tresanton in St Mawes was built from a cluster of old houses, hence its charming higgledy-piggledy levels and portside setting.
- Best for
- Children of all ages are warmly welcomed.
Ickworth
Suffolk, United Kingdom
- Style
- A family heirloom
- Setting
- National Trust parkland
With impressive gates and a quarter-mile drive up to the hotel, few entrances can be grander than the one to Ickworth House a stately home for all the family.
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages are welcome.
Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Style
- Gourmet grandeur
- Setting
- Classic Chilterns manor
This charming boutique hotel in a sleepy Oxfordshire village sits among beautiful vegetable gardens, which feature on Raymond Blanc's magnificent menu. Le…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages are welcome.
Llety Bodfor
Cardigan Bay, United Kingdom
- Style
- Boutique bed and breakfast
- Setting
- Hills at the back, sea to the front
Llety Bodfor is a spruce seafront townhouse in Aberdovey (Aberdyfi in Welsh) that conceals a world of fresh-linened, sheepskin-cushion-covered beds a stroll…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages welcomed.
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.
One Royal Circus
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Style
- Neoclassical playboy mansion
- Setting
- Refined New Town crescent
Overnighting at One Royal Circus is like staying at an impossibly cool friend’s townhouse, without having to be charming to the friend. This grand bed and…
- Best for
- Babies and up – children of all ages welcomed.
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.















