Luxury beach resorts provide guests with a wide array of amenities.
Luxury family beach resorts typically offer a variety of on-site activities and attractions for every age, dining options with kid-friendly menus and guest room types, depending on your lodging needs. Plus, the miles of warm sandy beaches are sure to please young and old alike. Typical resort activities include traditional sports like tennis and golf, and range to the more kid friendly, like swimming with dolphins and water rides. Most such resorts offer specially-designed children's activities and camps or even sitter services. The restaurants at these resorts vary in cuisine and price, making it easy for families to find meal options to fit every taste and stay within their budget.
Atlantis, Paradise Island
The Atlantis Resort and Hotel offers a multitude of family-friendly activities, events, accommodations and dining options. Located on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, the resort is surrounded by expansive stretches of beach. For guests needing a break from the Bahamian beaches, the Atlantis resort is home to 11 swimming pools, spread out throughout the property.
If they're not participating in the specially-designed activities, kids will enjoy the water rides and slides, one of which goes through the middle of a shark tank, and the river rides. The Atlantis Kids Adventures (AKA) and activities for toddlers, kids and preteens, offer fun targeted to every young person. Meanwhile, parents can enjoy rock climbing, snorkeling or just a leisurely swim in the pool. Later, the entire family can get together and enjoy swimming with dolphins and sea lions. In room babysitting services are also available by trained caregivers.
Both casual and fine dining options are available at the resort. Fine dining restaurants include Nobu, Mesa Grill and Cafe Martinique. Casual dining options include several pool- and beach-side cafes, a deli and low-key, full-service restaurants. Dining plans are available for guests, although not required to be served at any of the restaurants at the resort.
Atlantis Resort and Hotel
One Casino Drive
Paradise Island
Bahamas
954-809-2100
atlantis.com
Hilton Waikoloa Village
The luxury Hilton Waikoloa Village hotel is located on the Waikoloa Beach Resort, along the Kohala Coast of Hawaii's Big Island. The property features 62 oceanfront acres and over 1,000 guest rooms and suites. Activities and attractions include golf and tennis, and area tours and swimming with dolphins will interest the entire family. Kids get to meet dolphins face-to-face at Dolphin Quest -- the only interactive dolphin program on the island. Parents can relax at ease while their children attend Camp Menehune -- a specially designed program for kids 5-12.
At the resort's Kona Kohala Spa, traditional spa treatments are available for adults, children and teens, and appointments are necessary for these services. On-site dining options include traditional Hawaiian cuisine, plus restaurants serving Japanese, Chinese and casual grill food.
Hilton Waikoloa Village
64-425 Waikoloa Beach Drive
Waikoloa, HI 96738
808-886-1234
hiltonwaikoloavillage.com
Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort
Located along the Pacific Ocean, in the midst of a Costa Rican rain forest, the Los Suenos Marriott boasts an ultra-luxurious vacation spot. The 1100 acres of rain forest that surround the resort are within close proximity to tropical beaches, allowing guests to experience best of both environments. Resort activities for the entire family include miniature golf, tennis, volleyball, nearby snorkeling, horseback riding and river rafting.
While the parents enjoy adult fun, kids can enjoy themselves at the Tortuga Kids Club, which offers a variety of activities for kids of all ages that will let your child's imagination run wild. They can also play in their own outdoor pool at the resort.
Los Suenos also has an on-site spa, the Sibo Rainforest Spa and Retreat, at which Mom and Dad can enjoy many relaxing and rejuvenating spa treatments while the kids play elsewhere. The six on-site restaurants have choices of appetites of every age, from international cuisines to lighter fare like a sandwich grill, a coffee house and a pub. Although not all restaurants are open for three meals a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are available at at least two of the resort restaurants daily.
Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort
800 MTS West from Herradura entrance
Playa Herradura, 5024005 Costa Rica
506 2630 9000
marriott.com
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