City Breaks With Kids: Leicester and Leicestershire
The East Midlands isn't somewhere I have previously thought of as particularly family friendly but a recent visit with my 9 year old son Leo soon highlighted how little I knew of the area.
The city itself is compact and easy to get around and staying at the independently owned and very comfortable Belmont Hotel we could walk into the centre in no time at all.
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