The big Australia trip for families: Sydney harbour, two nights in the red centre at Uluru, four on the Queensland coast for the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree, then five on a small island in Fiji to rest before the flight home.
Open any day for the detail. Everything here can move: add a night, swap a hotel, change the order.
Land after the long flight and spend the first day gently: the ferry to Manly, a swim, an early night. Then walk from the Opera House round to the Botanic Garden, and do the coastal walk from Bondi to Coogee.
Fly into the desert for two nights near Uluru. Walk around the base of the rock with a guide who explains its meaning to the Anangu, and walk into the Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuta early before the heat.
Fly to Cairns and drive up the coast to Port Douglas. One day goes out to the outer reef to snorkel from a pontoon, another into the Daintree to Cape Tribulation, where the rainforest meets the beach.
Fly to Nadi and take the boat out to a small island in the Mamanuca group. Snorkel off the beach, take a boat to a sandbank, and let the children join the island kids club while you rest.
Boat back to Nadi for the flight home to London Heathrow, connecting on the way.
Replace two Port Douglas nights with two nights on an island on the reef itself, for snorkelling straight from the beach.
Break the flight out with two nights in Singapore for the gardens, the zoo and the hawker centres.
Planned for June to October, when Australia is at its best. Outside those months it still works, with different trade-offs; ask us.
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A night in Oslo and one in Longyearbyen, then nine nights on an expedition ship circling Spitsbergen in the midnight sun, looking for polar bears along the pack ice, walrus on the beaches and seabird cliffs in Hinlopen Strait.
Three nights in Athens for the Acropolis and the museums, then a drive west via the Corinth Canal to seven nights on the Messinia coast, where a kids club, an aqua park and ancient Olympia keep every age busy.
