Family Holiday at Lake Müritz

You know how it goes: you’ve barely arrived at the hotel and the kids are already bored. The room is cramped, everyone has to sit still in the restaurant, and every outing needs a precise plan. Instead of relaxation, a family holiday then means mostly organization – and in the evening everyone falls into bed exhausted without anything truly lovely having stuck. And yet all you really want is carefree days together.

Then there are the costs: many hotels mercilessly charge every extra for children, and in the end a family of four pays a small fortune for very little room to move. And when you do head to the water, access is often steep, deep or crowded – someone always has to keep watch. A relaxed swim where the kids can simply splash around looks different. That’s exactly where we come in.

Things are different here. Genuss-Ferien in Jabel lies in the middle of the Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heide Nature Park, right on the Jabelscher See – with no through traffic, safe and with plenty of space where kids can simply be kids. At your lakeside pitch or in the holiday apartment, the little ones play on the shallow sandy beach, at the playground or with the children of the neighboring family – while you enjoy a coffee in peace. Boredom is guaranteed not to set in here.

Fresh air instead of screens, woods and water instead of waiting rooms: a family holiday at Lake Müritz does everyone good – especially for recharging before the new school year. Between romping, swimming and boat trips, the phone stays in the pocket all by itself. Whether it’s a week of the summer holidays or a long weekend: here your kids collect memories of campfires, long summer evenings and little adventures, while you finally get to unwind yourself.

There’s never a dull moment around the Mecklenburg Lake District. With kids, Affenwald Malchow with its free-climbing Barbary macaques, the Damerower Werder European bison reserve and the Müritzeum in Waren – a large aquarium that also saves rainy days – are well worth a visit. In Müritz National Park you can watch white-tailed eagles and cranes: hands-on natural history that no textbook can replace.

And what if the grandparents look after the little ones for a while? Then the small towns all around invite you for a stroll: the island town of Malchow with its monastery, historic Röbel with its brick churches or the old town of Waren. Active families hop on their bikes – our cycling and water sports offers lead along safe routes around the lakes.

That’s how a family holiday in the Mecklenburg Lake District combines adventure for the kids and relaxation for the parents – without the stress of long-haul travel. And on really hot days? Then you can drive to the Baltic Sea in just over an hour and let the kids romp in the sea and the sand.