With this special package, kids play and stay free at SeaWorld and participating Orlando Marriott and Renaissance Hotels and Resorts. Experience all the wonders of SeaWorld and relax at the end of the day at a hotel destination perfect for your family.
One hotel, the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort – is situated on 200 acres, the 2000 room resort offers 4 swimming pools including a lagoon-shaped free form pool (includes 1 indoor), 6 hot tubs, 106′ waterslide, 2 children’s pools, 10 restaurants and lounges ranging from the food court to …

An all-new family waterslide rocks into Aquatica in Orlando with unique thrills including high-speed tubes and half-pipe funnels that’ll have riders splashing and sliding frontward and backward and climbing the walls.
The first waterslide of its kind in the world, Omaka Rocka opens this spring.
What makes Omaka Rocka next year’s can’t-miss waterpark ride in Orlando?  Riders speed down flumes into massive funnels, sliding high up one side and then the other, rocking back and forth, feeling a sensation of near weightlessness.
Coming out of the funnel, they’ll skim into a drenching splashdown …

THROUGH THE WOODS: This year, Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground at Walt Disney World in Florida is offering sleigh rides through the secluded beauty of the 700-acre backwoods resort. From Nov. 29-Dec. 30, 2009, four adults – or two adults and three small children – can climb into a shiny, fire engine-red sleigh, decked out with garland and twinkling holiday lights, and take a relaxing, 25-minute sojourn into the lush forest. Cost is $60 per sleigh. For reservations and more information, guests can call 407/WDW-PLAY. (Kent Phillips, photographer)

Yes we all love vampires! In Anne Rice books, on HBO’s True Blood and on the big screens’ Twilight. Generations have been enamored with the vampire. There are tours all over the world that that continue to promote that “up-close Dracula experience.”
Forbes Traveler.com lists 10 Vampire Vacations that include:

Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania, Romania
Tommyknockers and More Bus Tours in Stephen King’s backyard of Bangor Maine
Haunted History Tours of New Orleans, LA
San Franicsco’s Vampire Tours
Suspected Vampire grave of Mercy Lena Brown in Exeter, R.I.
The Cullen family of vampires in Forks, Washington
Twilight Fan …

Castaway Cay, Disney’s private island paradise in the tropical waters of the Bahamas, is getting an extra dose of pixie dust. Enhancements will provide guests with more water-based family-fun, additional conveniences and a slice of beachside luxury all designed to complement the idyllic island setting.
The additional island amenities are scheduled to be complete by summer 2010, in time for special five-night cruises aboard the Disney Wonder with two stops at Castaway Cay, and the Disney Dream cruise ship which starts sailing in early 2011.
Castaway Cay is consistently rated by Disney …

New for the summer swim season at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park are Beachcomber Shacks..
“CHILLING” AT TYPHOON LAGOON: New for the summer swim season at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park are Beachcomber Shacks – “premium spaces” that provide shade and comfortable seating for six people, all-day drink mugs, an ice chest stocked with bottled water, towels, locker, and a service attendant to bring food and beverage orders. All-day rentals are $250 plus tax and can be booked in advance by calling 407-WDW-PLAY. If available, they can be rented at Typhoon …

Summer is still going for some kids. Choosing lodging based on their tastes in amenities might not be a bad idea. Check out this list of kid-friendly swimming pools from across the country.
Disney’s Polynesian Resort (orlando)
The Polynesian boasts an attractive pool with a private white-sand beach. Families with young tikes rave about the resort’s zero-entry Nanea Volcano Pool; a 120-ft slide blasts riders out of the pool’s 40 foot high volcano.
Grand Wailea Resort (Hawaii)
This 2,000-foot-long, 25,700-total-square-foot, 770,000-gallon pool consists of nine free-form pools at six levels — beginning at 40 …

ForbesTraveler has named 10 Most Kid-Friendly Cities in America. I
particularly like San Diego’s Wild Animal park with their sleep over
program is called “Roar and Snore” helping to make the southern
California city one of the “best places in America for a family vacation.”
Of course their list builds from there and includes 10 urban areas that according to ForbesTraveler can’t be beat for kid-friendly activities.
Their list includes some obvious picks like Orlando (with their amusement parks), Washington D.C. (civics and history) and the Big Apple itself – new York City.
The top ten …