The hard part of a three generation holiday is never finding things to do. It is that a four year old and a seventy eight year old want incompatible days, and in most destinations keeping everyone together means one minibus, one pace and one person quietly miserable. Gibraltar fixes that better than almost anywhere, because the entire territory is 6.7 square kilometres. The group can split after breakfast and be back together for lunch without anyone driving. Grandad does the museum, the kids do the beach, and the walk between them is ten minutes. It has also just broken the one thing that used to let everybody do the Rock together. That is the part of this plan you need to deal with first. The cable car closed on 18 November 2025 for a full rebuild and is not expected back until 2027. That removed the only step free way to the top of the Rock. If your group includes anyone who cannot manage a steep uphill walk, and most three generation groups do, the summit is now a vehicle trip or it does not happen. The replacement is a licensed Rock Tour taxi or minibus. It drives the group up, stops at the viewpoints, and waits. For a mixed age party it is the right answer rather than a compromise, because it removes the walking from the bits in between, which is where grandparents actually run out of road. Reserve admission is separate from the taxi. The [Nature Reserve's own ticket page](https://naturereserve.gi/tickets/) prices it at 30 pounds for an adult over 11, 22 pounds for a child aged 5 to 11, and free for under fives, with proof of age needed for both. Opening is 9am to 6pm from October to April and 9.30am to 7pm from May to September. Two things inside the reserve are not step free and the brochures do not say so. St Michael's Cave is a descent and a climb back. The Skywalk is reached on foot. Plan for the people who will wait at the top with a coffee rather than pretending everyone will do everything. Our [cable car status guide](/blog/gibraltar-cable-car-open-closed-guide) tracks the rebuild, and the [accessible Gibraltar guide](/blog/accessible-wheelchair-gibraltar-guide) covers what a wheelchair can actually reach. This is the real planning problem, so here it is as a table rather than a list of attractions. |Activity|Small children|Less mobile adults|Cost| |Rock Tour taxi to the Upper Rock|Good, they see monkeys|Good, no walking between stops|Taxi plus reserve entry| |Alameda Botanic Gardens|Good, open space|Partly, the site is on a slope|Free| |Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park|Very good|Good, compact site|8 GBP adult, 5 GBP child or senior| |Main Street and Casemates|Good, pedestrianised|Good, flat|Free| |Dolphin boat trip|Very good|Depends on sea legs|Operator sets it| |St Michael's Cave|Good for over fives|Difficult, steps both ways|In reserve entry| |Catalan Bay beach|Very good|Good, flat promenade|Free| The entry that surprises people is the wildlife park. [Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park](https://awcp.gi/) charges 8 pounds for adults aged 16 to 64 and 5 pounds for children aged 5 to 15, and it charges the same 5 pounds for anyone 65 and over. A grandparent pays the child rate. It is a rescue centre rather than a zoo, caring for exotic animals confiscated by the authorities or abandoned as pets, with ring tailed lemurs, cotton topped tamarins, African grey parrots and endangered tortoises. It is open Thursday to Tuesday from 10am to 4.30pm, closing at 4pm on Wednesday, with last entry half an hour before. It is small. That is the point. A toddler and an eighty year old can both do the whole thing in an hour without anyone needing to be carried. The [Gibraltar Botanic Gardens](https://www.gardens.gi/visitor-info) are free and open every day from 8am to sunset, which makes them the default regroup point for a split party. They have been open to the public since 1816. Here is the correction. Every family guide calls the Alameda an easy flat stroll. The gardens' own visitor information says the garden is on a slope and some of the paths are steep, and that disabled access is along Red Sands Road. If you are pushing a buggy or a wheelchair, go in from Red Sands Road rather than following a map to the nearest gate and discovering the gradient. > Small territory does not mean flat territory. Gibraltar is a mountain with a town at the bottom, and the useful question is never how far but how steep. The macaques are what the children will remember, and they are also the only part of the trip with a legal penalty attached. The Gibraltar Government's [ape management page](https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/environment/ape-management) states plainly that it is illegal to feed the macaques and that the penalty for the offence is 500 pounds. Higher figures circulate online. The official government page says 500 pounds, so that is the number we are quoting. The practical version for a family. These are wild animals that have learned to open bags and unzip rucksacks. A child walking around with an open ice cream,