Baby pampering on the rise in luxury hotels

Details: Baby concierge services are now being offered at resorts in St. Lucia, Fiji and Portugal that include child care and the preparation of rooms with safety gates, high chairs, bottle warmers and cribs with mosquito nets.

• One butler at Beaches Turks & Caicos says that he blends "custom fruit purées so babies can join parents at the resort’s 21 restaurants."
• In New York at the Langham Hotel, a recently opened postnatal "retreat" offers feeding, diapering and bathing for babies.

The big picture: Hotels are seeing a rise in the number of families traveling with young children.

• There's been a 10% increase in families with young children over the past year at Loews Hotels.
• In St. Thomas at the Ritz-Carlton, family travel has increased 30% since the pandemic.