In the southern part of the Sunshine State, you can experience adventurous fun with your family on vacation. These resorts provide both family activities and children's clubs, so that your children can go swimming, attend sports clinics, or enjoy campfires while you relax with your spouse on the beach. Southern Florida offers some of the best snorkeling and great locations to interact with dolphins, so consider booking a resort, that offers those amenities.
Located on the 60-acre island of Duck Key, this tropical resort offers your family a variety of deluxe suites and villas, a plethora of water excursions, including dolphin interactions, and six restaurants and bars. With the Atlantic Ocean only steps away, you can enjoy snorkeling and gazing at the vivid tropical fish and coral reef. In the resort's Dolphin Discovery program, after being educated about animals, you can swim and play with the dolphins in a deep-water lagoon for 20 minutes. Hawks Cay features three different children's and teen programs so that they will be divided with peers their own age and experience activities like sailing tiki boats on the lagoon or splashing in one of the resort's five pools. As of September 2010, the resort offers vacation packages that stasrt at $249 a night when you combine snorkeling and accommodations.
Hawks Cay Resort
61 Hawks Cay Blvd.
Duck Key, FL 33050
305-743-7000
hawkscay.com
At this all-inclusive family resort, only 30 minutes from West Palm Beach, you can find numerous activities to keep you busy. Club Med is known for its flying trapeze and circus school where your children learn circus tricks and fly through the air on the swinging trapeze. The resort also features complimentary tennis clinics for the entire family. Club Med also offers four swimming pools, including a kids pool. At the end of the day, retire to your family suite, where you and the children each have their own bedroom. As of September 2010, it costs around $4,600 for a family of four for a week-long vacation.
Club Med Sandpiper
3500 SE Morningside Blvd.
Port Sainte Lucie, FL 34952
772- 398-5100
clubmed.us
This family resort in Orlando boasts activities from all of your children's favorite television shows, as well as themed deluxe rooms, and entertainment for the whole family. Voted one of the Top 10 Waterpark Resorts by Waterpark Resorts Today in 2007, the park is divided into two pools. The Lagoon pool features seven family-friendly water slides, a 400-gallon dump bucket, and a water play structure, while the Oasis pool includes an Olympic size pool with faster slides. Experience the crazy Nickelodeon slime in one of the resort's live shows ,Slime Time Live, where contestants compete by doing wacky challenges and may get hit with green slime in the process. The resort features several entertainment options, including Nick After Dark, where children can play and you can go out by yourselves and the Code 9 Lounge, a dance club just for teens. As of September 2010, rates begin at $169 a night.
Nickelodeon Suites Resort
14500 Continental Gateway
Orlando, FL 32821
407-387-5437
nickhotel.com
