Forte Village

Accommodation runs from 4-star family bungalows through 5-star hotel rooms and suites to the private villas. The table below is the full line-up with the official sizes. Where a room shows no capacity, the resort publishes its size but not a set number of guests, so check that at booking.

For a baby or toddler the most useful rooms are the Family Plus bungalows at Le Palme or Bouganville. They have two connecting bedrooms and two bathrooms, so there's a separate room to put a baby down for a nap or an early night while the adults stay up, and both hotels sit closest to the children's village and the children's restaurant, so it's a short push with a pushchair. The Play Garden bungalows at the same two hotels add a private garden stocked with children's toys. One size up again, the 44 m² Luxury Family Bungalow at the same hotels sleeps two adults and three children by converting its living room into two further beds. At Hotel Pineta, some of the 37 m² Deluxe Family Rooms add a small extra bedroom and a private garden, worth asking for at booking if a separate sleeping space matters more than being close to Wonderland.

A ground-floor bungalow with its own garden or patio is easier with a pushchair and a small child than an upper-floor room in Il Castello. Connecting bedrooms are part of the Family and Family Plus layouts, and they aren't offered on every room type, so book one of those layouts if a separate children's room matters to you. The 5-star sea-view rooms in Il Castello and the suites are the premium end. What you pay for there is the position by the beach and the sea views, rather than anything more child-friendly, so weigh that if the children's facilities are your reason for coming.

The thirteen villas are the top tier, each named, from about 210 to 365 m² with two to four bedrooms, a private heated pool and a garden. They suit a large family, or two families sharing, who want their own space and pool.

Forte Village has taken the World's Leading Sports Resort title for seven years running, and the sports are the clearest reason why. On site there are thirteen tennis courts, twelve clay and one hard, floodlit and certified by the Italian tennis federation, along with football pitches, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, padel and pickleball courts, cycle paths across the estate, a two-floor gym, guided hiking, scuba diving and the beach watersports. A 27-hole golf course at Is Molas and a riding centre are nearby, arranged off site.

What sets the place apart is the run of coached academies, most backed by a named partner. The branded football academy changes each year; for 2026 it's a Fundación Real Madrid clinic, running from late May to early September for children from age six. Alongside it there's basketball with Ettore Messina's academy under Olimpia Milano EA7, tennis through the Tennis Star Academy by Head, plus separate Padel Star and Pickleball Star academies. Road cycling and mountain biking each have their own academy, as do rugby, netball, hockey, swimming, scuba diving, sailing, coastal rowing, triathlon and climbing. Fencing runs across two academies, one led by the Olympic fencers Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt, the other by Valentina Vezzali; boxing is coached through the Buglioni Boxing Academy by Leone 1947; table tennis through the Darius Knight Table Tennis Academy; and go-karting through the PGK Go-Kart Academy on the Leisureland track. On the creative side there's a dance academy, a DJ academy, and academies in science, cinema, circus, art and chess, plus a Barbie academy and Marvin's Magic Academy, billed as the first magic school inside a resort.

Set apart from the hotels is Leisureland, with a disco, a bowling alley and a go-kart track of about half a kilometre, aimed at older children and teenagers; bowling hours vary by season. The Forte Arena, an open-air venue in the resort, puts on summer concerts by international artists in July and August. The newer Nature Park has more than a hundred animal species, with a stable of Sardinian donkeys, Giara horses and Shetland ponies, a large aviary of flamingos, scarlet ibises, peacocks, swans and cranes, a farmyard, an educational farm of sheep and goats, a vegetable garden and a parrot area; children visit on set days and collect stamps in a Nature Park passport.

The spa

While the children are in Wonderland, the Acquaforte Thalasso and Spa is what the grown-ups get. Its heart is a thalassotherapy circuit of six seawater pools, drawn from offshore and held at graded temperatures and saltiness, set in a tropical garden; the resort calls it one of Europe's most advanced thalasso centres. These are therapy pools rather than pools to swim in. Alongside there's a private spa you can hire for a family or group, an Ayurvedic and yoga garden, a beachfront sauna, massage and physiotherapy, plus aesthetic-medicine and nutrition clinics, with a Tea Room bar inside.