Top 10 Family All-Inclusive Resorts in Italy

·Excellent kids and teen programming

Serenusa is a big Italian family resort on Sicily's south coast, for parents who want four age-banded children's clubs and a sandy seabed. It is about 105 minutes from Catania, with 490 rooms, three pools including one with waterslides, and a private fine-sand beach about 300 metres below the rooms. The clubs run from three-year-olds to seventeen-year-olds in four bands, with a baby kitchen, and that machinery rather than the food is the reason to book.

·Official all-inclusive plan with multiple restaurants and bars.

Grand Palladium Sicilia is a 469-room resort on the north coast of Sicily, at Campofelice di Roccella. It is built for families more deliberately than anything else in our Italian catalog. The clubs run from age one: a Baby Club for one to three, a Mini Club for four to eleven and a Junior Club for twelve to sixteen. Four pools sit behind that, including a family pool, a beach pool and a children's version of it, with indoor and heated water for the shoulder months.

·Excellent Simius/Tanka beach setting.

·Highly scenic cliffside setting near Cefalù.

Club Med's Sicilian flagship climbs a clifftop above Cefalù, with a panoramic pool on the bluff and the Mediterranean spread out below. Days run on sailing lessons, water sports, and Italian cooking classes, relaxed but active, and the setting is pure Sicily. Best May through October.

·Private beach access

UNA Hotels Naxos Beach spreads across a large site at Giardini-Naxos on Sicily's east coast, with four pools and a private beach. There are around 642 rooms. It is a family resort built around space and activity rather than polish: guests are warm about the grounds, the pool complex and the sports, and blunt that the rooms are functional. The pools are unheated, and the beach is the mixed shore this coast provides rather than soft sand.

·True all-inclusive

·Officially documented 148-room resort with clear room categories.

Mangia's Himera is a Sicilian beach holiday village on the north coast east of Palermo, for families who want sand, a pool and evening entertainment. Cefalu and Palermo are the day trips. It is an all-inclusive in the Italian sense: one buffet restaurant, two bars, a kids' club and a private beach, with 148 rooms in clear categories. Read it that way and it works; read it as a Caribbean-style resort with a dozen venues and it will not.

·Official room information is transparent.

VOI Marsa Sicla Essentia is a quiet family resort in southeast Sicily, for parents who want a sandy beach and will be driven to it. It is about 85 minutes from Comiso, a four-star with 150 rooms in green grounds, one pool with a children's pool beside it, two restaurants and a Kids Club for ages three to eight. The private sandy beach at Sampieri is 1.4 kilometres away along the resort's own route, so this is not a beachfront hotel.

·Official all-inclusive formula verified

VOI Arenella Resort is a big family resort on the coast near Siracusa, for families who want pools, activities and a base for southeast Sicily. It has 410 rooms, three freshwater pools and three restaurants on the Arenella and Ognina shore, where sand gives way to rocks and solarium platforms. The rooms sit 250 to 600 metres from the first sea point and about 800 metres from the beach, reached on foot or by a free shuttle train.

·Direct north-Sicily beach setting.

Mangia's Pollina is a beach resort on Sicily's north coast near Cefalu, for families who want private sand and a base for the coast. It is a four-star with a private beach, a pool and a kitchen running Italian and international, and its rooms climb from 22 to 34 square metres with a sea view offered at most sizes. All-inclusive is sold on some rate plans rather than as the resort's single product, so the board basis is what to confirm at checkout.