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Family Resorts:
Profiles of these family-friendly resorts have been recently added:

• NEW: Sunscape Puerta Aventuras - opened in December, on the Mayan Riviera
• NEW: Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach -Cancun
• Melia Azul Ixtapa ; Sol Melia Resorts
• Iberostar Tucan - Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya
• Sunset Beach Resort- value-priced, Jamaica
• Xpu Ha Palace - eco-park setting, Mayan Riviera
• Holiday Inn Sunspree Paradise Island - value-priced, Bahamas
• Sunset Jamaica Grande
• Ka'anapali Beach Hotel -value resort on Maui

Note: the items on this page change often! See recent news.

Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn
For years, Holiday Inn Family Suites Resort in Orlando has been a rollicking-fun place for families. Now Holiday Inn has partnered with Nickelodeon to launch "Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn": the makeover has included seven new waterslides and flumes, a 400-gallon dumping bucket, geysers, squirters... Read more, and see preview pictures of "NickHotel".

NEWS: one of the new pool complexes -- The Oasis- is open now.
Saturday January 22, 2005  #

Winter Vacation Ideas
Check new suggestions added, for winter vacations, -- whether you want to embrace the snow or run away from it, do the tried-and-true or something completely different and once-in-a-lifetime.
Wednesday January 19, 2005  #

Luxury London hotel
London calling... and maybe it's calling you to a family-friendly find in a superb location. Take a photo tour of the Athenaeum Hotel & Apartments, or read a profile from a recent visit. And by the way, "apartments" means spacious suites with full kitchens-- even a washer/dryer. A "Dollar for pound" deal gives N. Americans a big price break.
Tuesday January 18, 2005  #

Top Beaches
Every year on Memorial Day, "Dr. Beach" (a real-life scientist who studies beaches) issues a list of "America's Best Beaches." Families love sand'n'sea, so -- with spring break coming up-- here, once again, are Dr. Beach's latest top choices.
Tuesday January 18, 2005  #

Xpu Ha Palace: photos
The Riviera Maya is a wonderful place for a family vacation, with coral reef, lagoons, Mayan ruins, and unique eco-theme parks. And the Xpu-Ha Palace is a unique all-inclusive, with an "eco-park" setting and many outdoors activities. Take a photo tour.

• See also: more Riviera Maya all-inclusive resorts.

Note: the items on this page change often! See recent news.

Chinese New Year
It's the Year 4703: time to welcome the Year of the Rooster; and a fun time to visit cities with colorful parades and festivals-- New York, Seattle, San Francisco, LA... Check out Chinese New Year Celebrations.
Friday January 14, 2005  #

Franklyn D. Resort - deals
Franklyn D. Resort, and sister resort FDR Pebbles, are mid-sized resorts in Jamaica with all the usual perks of an all-inclusive: kids' club, activities, watersports... A complimentary outing is thrown in too (to Dunn's River Waterfall, from FDR). But what's really special is: each family gets a friendly vacation nanny during their stay. Check out promotions at FDR: Bring Your Own Grandparent, and $400 Air Credit - Deals at Franklyn D. Resort and FDR Pebbles
Thursday January 13, 2005  #

Winter Family Vacation: Smugglers' Notch
This top-rated Vermont resort dares promise:"the most fun your children will ever have." Smuggs has a nursery, kids programs, two teen centers, and new this winter: Little Rascals on Snow for toddlers; ski camps for grown-ups(!); and a Family Package that covers ski or snowboard lessons for kids, lessons for adult first-timers, lodging, lift tickets, x-country ski and snowshoe trails, indoor FunZone, evening entertainment, tube sliding, ice skating, swimming, hot cocoa by the bonfire, and lots more. Read about Deals at Smugglers Notch.
Tuesday January 11, 2005  #

Ice Hotel
The truth will out: far more people take a daytime tour of the Ice Hotel than actually stay overnight. But those who do stay sleep in warm mummy-bags on top of reindeer skins on top of sculpted-ice beds: is this cool, or what? 28 degrees cool... Take a photo tour of the Ice Hotel, a half-hour drive from Quebec City.
Monday January 10, 2005  #

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