There are plenty of places that say they are family friendly yet do little more than provide a few creaking swings. Higher Lank Farm is dedicated to young families - in fact you can only go there if you have children under five. It's a 500-year-old working farm near Bodmin offering B&B in the farmhouse or self-catering in a barn, which has its own underfloor heating and wood-burning stoves fuelled by logs from their own woods.
You're advised to bring any comforts your kids won't travel without, but other than that pretty much everything else is provided - books, games and jigsaw puzzles, hundreds of videos, cot bedding and changing mats, baby carriers and spare buggies.
The owner will even lend you reusable nappies free of charge and clean them for you. All the meat, fruit and veg is from the farm. After breakfast, kids are taken to feed the chickens, ducks, geese and guinea fowl, then lots of other activities are arranged, including a "tractor and trailer adventure" in the woods. Nursery teas begin at 5pm, after which, you can slope off to the pub while the babysitters take over.
· higherlankfarm.co.uk, 01208 850716. A double with two cots (or single beds) costs from £291 per family for four nights. Dinner £15.95pp, nursery tea £4.50 per child. Self-catering from £495 a week. Babysitting pounds 10 per hour per family.