08/11/2024
Just now wrapping up a few weeks here in England touring some ancient (like, OLD old) sites, and it’s been fabulous and certainly eye-opening in terms of family-friendly travel.
If you know me, you know that I don’t automatically dismiss short-term rentals as the tools of the devil because in a lot of cases, they’re literally the only cost-effective, comfortable way a family can travel together. The solution for family travel so many hotels offer is a room that is twice as expensive for two double beds crammed right next to each other… and any family can tell you that has never been a good solution.
This trip (with the exception of London because we literally had no choice) we stayed in small, ancient B&Bs (the Garden Hilton at Heathrow T2 being a notable exception lol), as first of all, those are the kinds of places we love to stay but second of all, I wanted to see how they ranked against the bigger, more expensive hotels in terms of comfort for families traveling together.
Here’s what I found, ranked in order of worst to best:
