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at no cost during their stay at the resort. There’s also story time,
volleyball, life-size chess, ping pong and croquet.
Another top-notch area resort is the iconic The Breakers
Palm Beach (thebreakers.com), which in 2011 completed a
5-year, $80 million renovation and redesign of all guestrooms
and offers up its own long list of family activities (think everything
Florida was not ravaged
as several other southern
states during the Civil War
from nature walks to historic bicycle tours, family fun golf and
eco walks, even a glittery tattoo session and a glow in the dark
scavenger hunt). There’s also an entertainment center, a kids’
manatees, and kids will love Sharky’s Sky Trail, a ropes course
camp, and options for tweens and teens (maybe even glow in the
adventure and the newest interactive attraction to be introduced
dark volleyball).
at the park. It’s a multi-level aerial obstacle course in which
guests climb three stories in the air to encounter 18 challenges
MIAMI
including rickety bridges, suspended ropes and other balancing
For those clients who are tired of the usual family vacation
obstacles. Families can also opt for a dolphin encounter, although
suspects, Miami offers a surprising and refreshing alternative.
highly recommended is the very cool Sea Trek Reef Encounter,
Miami has, the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
an underwater walking journey through a 300,000-gallon tropical
declares, evolved into “a best-kept secret for family travelers,
reef in which clients wear a state-of-the-art dive helmet that allows
offering more intimate-sized attractions—many in tropical
them to breathe freely while “under the sea.”
settings—without the long lines.”
The Miami Seaquarium is one of the hottest tickets in
Another must is Jungle Island, which has a few unique
adventures of its own, including coming face-to-face (sort of) with
town, with shows featuring Lolita the Killer Whale—and that
royal white tigers and snow tigers, which started calling the park
famous splash zone—and TV superstar Flipper. There are also
home this past year. To get a real feeling for the “island” and its
countless exhibits focusing on tropical fish, stingrays, sharks and
offerings, recommend the VIP Safari Tour, a 90-minute, behind-
Jungle Island in Miami
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