The Weekly Edit: Everything you need to know in Parenting, Travel & Lifestyle
A strong week for premium travel news in particular, with a headline-grabbing luxury resort debut on the Red Sea, plus a screen-free audio brand's biggest launch yet and a first look at Christmas gifting. Here's everything worth knowing this week, across luxury family travel, lifestyle and parenting.
Parenting
Yoto unveils its biggest hardware update yet
Yoto, the screen-free audio platform for kids and winner of the King's Award for Enterprise 2025, has launched the Yoto Player 4th Gen (£119.99) and Yoto Mini 4th Gen (£89.99), its most significant update since the brand launched on Kickstarter in 2017. The headline feature is a new Green Button, giving children cardless, one-touch access to up to 20 of their favourite titles and playlists, alongside a faster processor, 64GB of storage (over 1,000 hours of offline audio), Wi-Fi 6 and a redesigned, more rugged Yoto Mini rated IP67 for splashes and dust. Both are available for pre-order now, with the Mini dispatching from 30 September and the Player from 15 October.
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My 1st Years opens its Christmas gifting season
It’s never too early to get ahead with your shopping as a parent and premium personalised gifting brand My 1st Years has released four new festive ranges: Christmas Eve boxes, fill-your-own advent calendars, personalised wooden toys, and stockings, sacks and decorations.
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Lifestyle
Treehouse Hotel London relaunches Madera and The Nest for autumn
Treehouse Hotel London (the Barry Sternlicht-backed hotel brand behind Baccarat and 1 Hotels) has refreshed its two rooftop spaces for September. Madera, London's only elevated Cali-Mexi dining destination under Executive Chef Max Castaldo (ex-Nobu, Sushisamba, The Lanesborough, Mandarin Oriental), now runs a new Family Fiesta Brunch, with children aged 4 to 10 taken off for 90 minutes of supervised games while parents linger over brunch; a Halloween edition lands 25 October. One floor up, The Nest rooftop bar continues its skyline programming. A stylish, family-friendly London pick with genuine design pedigree.
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Travel
Nammos Resort AMAALA welcomes its first guests
One of the most anticipated luxury openings of the year: Nammos, the Mykonos beach-club brand turned global hospitality name, has opened its first destination resort at AMAALA on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. The 110-room property (plus 20 Nammos Residences) brings the brand's Mediterranean energy to a new setting, with its signature restaurant on a private island reached by boardwalk, a dedicated children's programme, and a full spa and wellness offering. A strong "first in the region" story with real prestige attached, and further openings due in Sardinia, London, Montenegro, the Maldives and Egypt.
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InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau's announces festive programme: "12 Pearls of the Ocean"
Running 20 December 2026 to 7 January 2027, this is InterContinental's most immersive festive calendar yet, with New Year's Eve headlined by Pixie Lott, a Christmas Eve gala dinner and yacht cruise, Santa's arrival on the beach on Christmas morning, and a dedicated family programme including gingerbread house making, a kids' fashion show and cooking classes.
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