December 3, 2008
Traveling with the kids
Family travel tips
CARIBBEAN DEAL
Eat, drink and play for $900 for four people, four nights at Coconut Bay Resort & Spa on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The all-inclusive package even provides separate rooms for parents and kids. For children there's all-day fun in the Kidz Klub. The newly renovated resort is the home of CocoLand, one of the largest water parks in the Caribbean. Go to www.cbayresort.com or call 866-978-6226. Rates are good through Dec. 15.
CHECK OUT A CORN MAZE
This international phenomenon is so popular, some families plan their entire vacations around corn mazes. Farmers plant corn that grows 8 feet tall, creating mazes where getting lost is corny good fun. Find a directory to corn mazes in 45 states and three provinces at cornmazesamerica.com. Contact mazes individually for dates and details.
FAMILYMOON
Turn your second honeymoon into a Familymoon at the AAA Four Diamond TradeWinds Resort on the white sands of St. Pete Beach. The three-night package includes a two-bedroom suite to accommodate the newly combined family, keepsakes, dinner for two, and much more including a DVD of the family comedy, Yours, Mine and Ours. Rates through Dec. 24 are $1,246 to $1,418 depending on family size. Go to www.tradewindsresort.com or call 800-360-4016.
FAMILY TRAVEL CLOSE TO HOME
ÂWhere is Estero Island? It's off Fort Myers, where the family-friendly Pink Shell Beach Resort & Spa offers spa services for the entire family including children ages 5 to 15. Enroll children in Kidds Kampp, where kids, tweens and teens are grouped by age. Accommodations are in one- and two-bedroom cottages and the 12-acre resort has two restaurants. Call 888-222-7465 or go to www.pinkshell.com
ÂThrough Sept. 30 the Summer Splash package at the elegant Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress near Walt Disney World offers rooms for as little as $189 nightly. Families receive a booklet worth $300 in discounts for activities including spa, golf, tennis and the equestrian center. Dive-in movies shown poolside on Saturday nights are free. Call 407-239-1234.
STAY SAFE
Tips from the Centers for Disease Control on safer travel with children at home and abroad are found at www.cdc.gov/travel/child_travel.htm
Eat, drink and play for $900 for four people, four nights at Coconut Bay Resort & Spa on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The all-inclusive package even provides separate rooms for parents and kids. For children there's all-day fun in the Kidz Klub. The newly renovated resort is the home of CocoLand, one of the largest water parks in the Caribbean. Go to www.cbayresort.com or call 866-978-6226. Rates are good through Dec. 15.
CHECK OUT A CORN MAZE
This international phenomenon is so popular, some families plan their entire vacations around corn mazes. Farmers plant corn that grows 8 feet tall, creating mazes where getting lost is corny good fun. Find a directory to corn mazes in 45 states and three provinces at cornmazesamerica.com. Contact mazes individually for dates and details.
FAMILYMOON
Turn your second honeymoon into a Familymoon at the AAA Four Diamond TradeWinds Resort on the white sands of St. Pete Beach. The three-night package includes a two-bedroom suite to accommodate the newly combined family, keepsakes, dinner for two, and much more including a DVD of the family comedy, Yours, Mine and Ours. Rates through Dec. 24 are $1,246 to $1,418 depending on family size. Go to www.tradewindsresort.com or call 800-360-4016.
FAMILY TRAVEL CLOSE TO HOME
ÂWhere is Estero Island? It's off Fort Myers, where the family-friendly Pink Shell Beach Resort & Spa offers spa services for the entire family including children ages 5 to 15. Enroll children in Kidds Kampp, where kids, tweens and teens are grouped by age. Accommodations are in one- and two-bedroom cottages and the 12-acre resort has two restaurants. Call 888-222-7465 or go to www.pinkshell.com
ÂThrough Sept. 30 the Summer Splash package at the elegant Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress near Walt Disney World offers rooms for as little as $189 nightly. Families receive a booklet worth $300 in discounts for activities including spa, golf, tennis and the equestrian center. Dive-in movies shown poolside on Saturday nights are free. Call 407-239-1234.
STAY SAFE
Tips from the Centers for Disease Control on safer travel with children at home and abroad are found at www.cdc.gov/travel/child_travel.htm
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