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Club Med offers Creactive facilities
where kids can use a trampoline,
juggle or do a trapeze act.

Pool Suite were about $3,220 with taxes and
fees, all inclusive, or $16,000 for five nights.

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even for short-stay guests. The summersonly Junior Shooting Academy ($70 per
month; ages 7-17) teaches safe handling and
marksmanship in trap, skeet and sporting
clays. Like the Bitter End's sailing classes,
all three of these options help young people
learn sports that they can enjoy for decades.
From $255 per night; about $2,300 per week
with taxes and fees.

Circus Skills
The aim of the circus-skills lessons at
Club Med Punta Cana is not to introduce
children to their life's work, but to engage
them in activities that, while being fun, also
impart strength, balance, self-discipline,
and confidence. Thanks to Club Med's
partnership with Cirque du Soleil, it has
"Creactive" facilities where children
in the Mini Club (ages 4-10) and Club
Passworld (11-17) can use a trampoline,
swing on a trapeze, juggle, and more. In
addition, classes organized by age group and
scheduled throughout the day cover the
aforementioned skills as well as tightrope,
dance, juggling, percussion, make-up, Diablo

Touching All Bases

devil sticks.... On family days, parents and
their kids can participate together. Now,
that's team-building. From approximately
$415 per night, or $2,890 per week including
$180 club fee.

Sea Turtle Conservation
The protection of these gentle giants is
a popular cause these days, so the kids
program at Jumby Bay on a private island off
Antigua, involves even little children. Led
by researchers, campers observe hawksbill
turtles nesting on Pasture Bay Beach (shhh!),
release hatchlings, and "adopt" a turtle whose
progress they can track via Facebook. Kids in
the program also enjoy turtle presentations,
arts, crafts, and games. For entire families, the
Hawksbill Turtle Experience, a 5-night package
offered four times per summer, includes
guests in sea turtle patrol and data collection
training, excursions to see hawksbills laying
eggs, a guided snorkeling trip, outdoor
presentations about habitat, a white night
beach BBQ, and six hours of community
service credit for school students. Rates
weren't firm at press time, but 2017 rates at a

What with Melia Nassau Beach's recent $19 million renovation and the
long-awaited debut of Baha Mar, people have been asking me about this
Cable Beach all-inclusive. Its Kids Club, for children between ages 5 and
12, does not put a lot of emphasis on any single activity or skill, although
parents do have the option of signing their kids up for scuba lessons. On the
whole, though, this is a strong general interest program, one that includes
games, water and land sports, Bahamian arts and crafts, movies, and even
a pajama party. "The staff are specially trained to provide an educational
and fun experience in the Bahamas," says Fabrizio Pierro, director of guest
experience. "The Kids Club is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., which includes
dinner hours so parents can have a meal together while their children play."
From $512, with taxes; $3,583 per week.
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Kids and teens have better things to do at
Oil Nut Bay on Virgin Gorda, in the British
Virgin Islands, than fixate on Xbox games.
Accessible only by boat or helicopter, this
secluded resort has a Nut House Kid's Club
and Nature Center, a learn-through-play
facility with activities for little ones, tweens,
and teens. These activities include snorkeling
tours, star-gazing, presentations at a touchand-feel aquarium, and learning about the
BVI's history, coral reefs, and migratory
humpback whales. Coming soon: Oil Nut
Bay will have an onsite marine biologist to
help guests understand the surrounding sea
and ecosystems. Rates for 2017 started at
about $960 with taxes and fees, or $6,720.

Ambassadors of the Environment,
Cousteau-Style
The Ritz Kids camp is highly regarded for
its mix of fun and environmental learning,
but the U.S. Virgin Islands' Ritz-Carlton,
St. Thomas, offers an Ambassadors of the
Environment program that goes even further,
featuring environmental and cultural
activities for families and just for kids. For
example, counselors take children (ages
4-12) hiking, coach them on taking nature
photographs, teach "snorkel 101 and 102,"
and give cooking lessons. July through the
third week of August, 2018, is the best time
for this, when the weekday Ambassadors
Summer Eco Camp is in full swing ($40
per child per day year-round). Cousteau's
program also includes activities for both
parents and children age 9 and up, such as
sunset kayaking, daytime snorkeling tours,
and night snorkeling for insights into both
the beauty and the importance of reefs.
From $780, or $5,465 per week with taxes
and fees. ■
Contact Information
Abaco Beach Resort & Boat Harbour Marina:
abacobeachresort.com
Beaches Resorts: beaches.com
Bitter End Yacht Club: beyc.com

Casa de Campo Resort & Villas: casadecampo.com.do
Club Med Punta Cana: clubmed.us
Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort:
rosewoodhotels.com/en/jumby-bay-antigua
Melia Nassau Beach: melia.com
Oil Nut Bay: oilnutbay.com
The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas: ritzcarlton.com
recommend.com


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