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Children love the displays of dolphins, seals and sea lions showing off their acrobatic and aquatic skills. Kids can also swim in a pool of gentle rays, which feel like velvety gelatine.

An extensive complex of pools and water slides to keep kids happy for a full day. Parents can relax in the garden areas.

The full title of this attraction is the “Western Park Crazy Wet West”. Highlights include horse-riding shows, cowboys-and-Indians battles and can-can dancers. A water-park features water rides and chutes for the kids, and Jacuzzis for the grownups. Tots and teens both will love it, and mums and dads can relax in the garden-café areas between shows.

Pools, slides and chutes galore at this huge water-park. Dragonland involves a giant sea-dragon whose mouth you can “ride”. Other highlights include the Grand Canyon scoop slide and the Devil’s Tail tube. There’s also a great pool for kids.

Board a tram at the little station above the main square of Sóller, which will take your family 5 km (3 miles) down through town and along the water’s edge to the Port de Sóller. The cars are ex-San Francisco rolling stock from the 1930s, operating at a rattling snail’s pace.

Can Planes, a refurbished mansion in Sa Pobla, has a great Toy Museum with many Spanish antiques. Old comic strips, a doll that spins a hula-hoop around her waist, game boards and elaborate dolls’ houses are some of the exhibits that will fascinate and delight.

There’s more than enough here to keep your brood busy for two full days. The water-park has one of the highest undulating slides on the island and the spiral tube satisfies the most demanding of thrill-seekers. For more sedate moments, play a round on the miniature golf course.

Young adventurers will love the thrill of exploring Mallorca’s caves, especially the Coves d’Artà, which exit onto the open sea (seeCoves and Caves, Coves d’Artà). At the Coves del Drac, the pitch darkness at a certain moment will excite your children, though the very young might be frustrated at having to walk in silence for so long.

A huge hit with anyone who enjoys being surrounded by African giraffes as tall as trees, rhinos as big as tanks and monkeys that jump on everything, even on top of cars. Facilities include a playground for the younger ones.

The Ca’n Pep Noguera is a banana plantation, established in 1973, when the owners started to transform the arid land into a tropical garden. It’s a mini-paradise of farm animals, birds and exotic plants.