Family-friendly · Calais
Best Family-Friendly Stays in Calais
On the Cote d'Opale, family-friendly stays in Calais mean something quite specific: rooms that sleep four, free parking for the car that came off the shuttle, and sand you can reach on foot. Eleven properties in town list family rooms, from Hotel Residence du Golf on the seafront to the B&B Hotel out at Saint-Pierre. The Dragon de Calais walks the Digue Gaston Berthe, Parc Saint-Pierre holds the town's green space, and the entire bus network is free, which removes the usual argument about fares with tired children at the end of a crossing.
Updated July 25, 2026
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The Opal Coast shapes what a family stay in Calais actually looks like. Hotel Residence du Golf and Hotel De La Plage both sit on the Digue Gaston Berthe facing the water, both accept pets and both list family rooms; the Residence du Golf sleeps up to four and fits its rooms with a microwave, fridge and hotplate, which matters when a crossing lands at an hour no restaurant keeps. Each of the two holds eighty parking spaces free of charge, five of them adapted for reduced mobility, so the car that carried everyone through the tunnel has somewhere to sit for the night without a further fee.
Inland from the dunes, the Saint-Pierre district and the streets behind Calais-Ville station carry the cheaper family rooms in this corner of the Pas-de-Calais. B&B HOTEL Calais Centre St Pierre on rue de Lille lists family rooms, free parking, a children's high chair and a picnic area, and it stands within four kilometres of the Calais Lighthouse. Logis Hotel Le Cottage on rue de Tunis keeps a garden, a sun terrace and a restaurant serving regional cooking, and it sits three hundred metres from exit 43 of the A16, the detail that decides most arrival evenings for a family driving down from the shuttle.
Closer to the belfry, the choice runs to older Opal Coast hotels that added family rooms rather than being designed around them. Hotel Meurice on rue Edmond Roche keeps antique furniture, a wrought-iron staircase with a brass banister and a lift, and it stands five hundred metres from Gare de Calais-Ville and a five-minute walk from the sea. Holiday Inn Calais Centre Car Ferry offers double rooms, family rooms and suites within walking distance of the UNESCO-listed belfry and Rodin's Six Bourgeois, with the lighthouse and the casino a few metres from the door.
Calais is a working town on the Opal Coast before it is a resort, and it makes no pretence otherwise. The port runs through the night, the ferries are visible from the beach, and the streets around Place d'Armes empty early. What softens it is the scale: Calais-Nord can be crossed on foot in a quarter of an hour, the Tour du Guet still stands over the square, and the sand begins where the houses stop. Children tend to prefer the ferries to the museums.
Local tips
- Ask for a room sleeping four at Hotel Residence du Golf, its microwave and hotplate solve the late-arrival meal problem after a night crossing.
- Take the free city buses rather than driving around town, the whole Calais network costs nothing and reaches both the beach and Saint-Pierre.
- Walk the Digue Gaston Berthe in the late afternoon to catch the Dragon de Calais, it moves along the seafront and children queue to ride it.
- Pick a free-parking property if you are driving from the Eurotunnel terminal, Le Cottage and the B&B at Saint-Pierre both include it at no cost.
- Give the hotel your ferry or shuttle time when you book, several Calais hotels keep a 24-hour front desk precisely for crossings landing after midnight.
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Hotel Meurice
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B&B HOTEL Calais Centre St Pierre
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Hôtel Résidence du Golf
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ibis Styles Calais Centre
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Metropol Hotel
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Breeze Hotel
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Logis Hôtel & Restaurant & Bar LE COTTAGE
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Holiday Inn Calais - Centre Car Ferry by IHG
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Hôtel De La Plage
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Brit Hotel Calais
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ibis Calais Car Ferry
Frequently asked questions
Family-friendly · Calais
Most of them. Eleven Calais properties list family rooms, including Hotel Residence du Golf and Hotel De La Plage on the seafront, B&B HOTEL Calais Centre St Pierre, Logis Le Cottage, Hotel Meurice, Metropol Hotel and Holiday Inn Calais Centre. Family rooms are standard here rather than a premium option.