Sofitel Targets Family Travel With Eight Winter Escape Ideas for Australians

As Australian families look for ways to escape the winter chill, Sofitel has highlighted eight family-friendly destinations across Europe, Asia, the Pacific, North America and Australia, showing how luxury hotels are adapting to multigenerational travel.

The collection ranges from no-flight city breaks in Sydney to tropical escapes in Fiji, Bali and Thailand, as well as culture-led stays in Paris, Munich and Montréal. Across participating properties, Sofitel is emphasising practical family features such as interconnecting rooms, family suites, children’s menus, babysitting services, kids’ activities and its Le Petit Prince-inspired family program. At selected hotels, families can also access 50 per cent off a second room for children.

Farina: The Ghost Town That Rises With the Bread

Deep in the Flinders Ranges, about 660 kilometres north of Adelaide, Farina sits where ambition met the hard facts of outback South Australia. For most of the year it is a place of stone walls, empty streets and windblown silence. Then, for eight weeks each winter, someone lights the old underground oven and the ghost town comes briefly, wonderfully, back to life.

Northern Lights in the Northwest Territories: Aurora Borealis by the Numbers

 

Few natural experiences compare with watching the Northern Lights in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Green, purple and blue ribbons sweep across the sky, often seeming close enough to touch. Thanks to its position beneath the Auroral Oval, low light pollution and generally clear skies, the region offers some of the most reliable aurora viewing in the world.