Christmas, with the family, somewhere better
Lapland and Santa, the great European markets, the theme parks in festive dress, or a house where nobody has to cook — four very different family Christmases, arranged end to end.
Plan Our ChristmasChoose the shape of the trip first
Most families start this with a half-formed idea — something with the children, somewhere Christmassy — and then lose three evenings to comparison sites that all show the same twelve hotels. The quickest way through it is to settle the shape of the trip before anything else: the Arctic, a market city, a theme park, or staying put and letting somebody else do Christmas properly.
Between them the Cherished brands arrange all four. This page is the short version of each — what it is genuinely good at, who it suits and how far ahead it needs booking — with the trip-by-trip detail on whichever one you want to pursue.
The Good Dates Go First
Lapland peak week and a country house Christmas are booked further ahead than anything else we sell. September is the normal time to be asking, not early.
Built Around The Ages
A trip for a four-year-old and a trip for a fourteen-year-old share a destination and nothing else. We ask who is travelling before suggesting anything.
A Real Number
Quoted for your dates, your airport and your family, including the parts that usually surface late — transfers, thermals, park tickets.
Four kinds of family Christmas
Lapland & The Arctic
Santa, snow and husky forests inside the Arctic Circle — the trip young children remember for the rest of their lives, and the one that sells out first. Rovaniemi for the under-tens, the fells for older children, Tromsø when the northern lights are the point.
Enquire About Lapland & The ArcticChristmas Markets
Two or three nights of glühwein, lights and a proper old square. Bruges is the gentlest with a pushchair, Cologne the most efficient, Vienna the grandest, Tallinn the one most likely to have snow.
Enquire About Christmas MarketsTheme Parks At Christmas
Disneyland Paris, LEGOLAND and Europa-Park in full festive dress, with shorter queues than summer and a park that looks like a Christmas card after dark. Each runs its own published festive calendar, which we check against your dates before quoting.
Enquire About Theme Parks At ChristmasFestive Stays In The UK
Nobody cooking, nobody driving to an airport — a country house or a city Christmas where the whole family fits under one roof and the person who normally hosts gets a Christmas too.
Enquire About Festive Stays In The UKQuestions about Cherished Christmas
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Tell us who is coming and roughly when
Send the ages, the dates you can move and the ones you cannot, and we will come back with two or three options that genuinely differ — with a real price against each.
Plan Our ChristmasSee the actual trips on Cherished Retreats
Thirteen family Christmas trips with what each one includes, what it does not, and the caveat worth knowing before you book — on the brand that arranges them.