Lahemaa National Park · With kids

Mere põik 6 in Võsu, open all year and the busiest sand in the park. Lifeguards in season, changing cabins, showers and toilets, playground equipment and swings, an outdoor gym, and a pump track for scooters and BMX. Drinks and snacks on site in summer; shops a few hundred metres away.

5.6 km of gravel and woodchip between Sagadi Manor and Oandu Visitor Centre, with 18 story boxes along the way holding fairy tales in Estonian and English that you read or play through a QR code. The first 3 km takes prams and wheelchairs when there is no snow. Parking at both ends.

A 1 km loop starting past the Oandu campsite car park, with boardwalks, steps and benches down to the Altja river valley. Dams, lodges, pointed stumps and slides into the water; you almost certainly will not see a beaver, which is worth saying in advance.

In an 1890s border guard building, a museum since 1993: seafaring, fishing, smuggling, wooden boats, a lookout tower and a smoke sauna in a cave. €8 adult, €6 concession, €18 family. Children's programmes on Viking and captain's-village themes run €15 for three hours, plus a treasure-hunt game.

The estate takes day visitors as well as guests: pools, saunas and cold plunges, a wine museum and a vintage car museum, trails on the grounds and workshops. Day passes and family packages are sold separately from rooms.