Family routes cap the driving at three hours a day and put something worth stopping for in the middle of each leg — a camel ride, a pottery yard, a riverbed full of fossils. The guides who run them are the ones our own children like best.

Rooms connect or sit across a corridor, dinners start early, and every day carries one plan for the energetic and one for whoever needs the pool. Grandparents tell us these weeks work as well for them as for the kids.