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* English Heritage has revamped its website, adding a dedicated children's section. The main site can be searched by theme, region or venue for details about events at English Heritage properties. Britain's National Trust also has a smart new website, showing which properties are open, though the children's section appears not to have been updated for some months.

* "Why should kids have all the fun?" asks www.grownupcamps.com, an American website that lists summer camps for adults wishing to re-live their adolescent days.

The principle remains the same as camps for kids: put a group of strangers together, get them to do confidence-building activities during the day and sing songs around a campfire in the evening. Unlike resorts, the camps offer tuition programmes. You have "traditional co-ed overnight camps" and specialist camps, catering for interests as diverse as religious study, baseball, wilderness survival, ballroom dancing and creative writing.

* Trendspotters and high-rollers will have noticed that several hotel firms now offer exclusive apartments as well as rooms. The most recent addition in London is myplace, a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor of Bloomsbury's myhotel. The rate is $3304 a night plus tax, and includes a compact kitchen and a balcony.

The apartment has DVD players, PlayStations and computers, as well as a butler, chef and beauty therapist on call. "We're expecting guests from the music, film and media industries," said a spokesperson. Eminem has been a guest at the hotel.

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English Heritage

National Trust

National Trust for kids

Grown Up Camps

Bloomsbury's Myhotel