Babies and toddlers welcome

No need to pack all the baby and toddler paraphernalia when booking selected properties from holidaylets.net. For example, they've thought of everything at Falcon House – a four-bedroom/four-bathroom luxury lakeside property, near Cirencester - including two highchairs and two travel cots, a changing mat, baby bath seat, microwave steriliser, baby backpack, baby monitors, stair gate and food blender.

Sleeping eight adults in stylish, contemporary comfort the property is in the Cotswold Water Park where guests also have use of the spa's heated indoor and outdoor pools, gym and sauna, plus children's playground and trampoline, tennis court, fishing and boating lakes.

A week's stay costs from £900 rising to £1450 in July and August.

Even more of a chore is packing everything for babies when heading abroad but check out La Grange du Moulin, a toddler-friendly gite, surrounded by fields of wheat and sunflowers, on the edge of the village of Courgeon in south west France's Charente-Maritime region.

As well as shared use of a fully enclosed and alarmed swimming pool and heated toddler pool, plus swings, sandpit and slide, the three-bedroom property - sleeping six - comes complete with cots, highchairs, stairgate, bath toys, toddler toilet seats, steam steriliser and a baby bath. The young owners can even provide a baby-sitting service.

A week costs from £350 rising to £750 in peak season.

For more information and bookings, log on to Holidaylets.net.