The best family hotels in France

Finding accommodation that suits both adults and children isn't always easy. Leonie Glass suggests 10 hotels that everyone will enjoy in five of France's most family-friendly regions.
If you’re keen to avoid the drudgery of self-catering family holidays, but are fed up with frosty greetings when checking into hotels with your children, you need to find somewhere to stay where you will all feel comfortable.

Not a snooty place, where staff or other guests shush your children if they run down a corridor, or somewhere full of precious objects that invite disaster. And not a hotel where the accommodation is so basic that all of you have to squeeze into a tiny airless box. Here are some genuinely family-friendly places that parents and children can both enjoy.