| 12 Best All Inclusive Family Resorts 2019 - Top All Inclusive Vacations for Families - GoodHousekeeping.com Posted: 07 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST If you're looking for a family vacation that's easy, fun for everyone, and offers good value for your money, consider staying at an all-inclusive resort. Whether you're considering a dude ranch where the kids can ride horses and roast s'mores by the fire, or a Caribbean resort with pools and waterslides, we have options. Here are a few of the best all-inclusive family resorts for the ultimate stress-free getaway. 1 C Lazy U Ranch (Granby, Colorado) BOOK NOW The C Lazy U Ranch, named the top resort in Colorado by Conde Nast Traveler, has been welcoming guests since 1919. The all-inclusive ranch, featuring rustic-chic cabins, has programs for kids of every age. Little ones can enjoy pony rides and picnics, while teens can go horseback riding and take supervised whitewater rafting trips. 2 Beaches Turks & Caicos (Providenciales, Turks and Caicos) 3 Woodloch Pines Resort (Hawley, Pennsylvania) BOOK NOW This all-inclusive Poconos resort has plenty to keep the family busy. Activities include rock climbing, go-karts, and trivia contests, as well as nightly entertainment. Meals are served family-style, and might include crab cakes and loin of beef, and always include a delicious dessert (the chocolate peanut butter pie is a favorite!). 4 Club Med Sandpiper Bay (Port St. Lucie, Florida) BOOK NOW Club Med Sandpiper Bay, Club Med's only U.S. property, is located in Port St. Lucie, on Florida's east coast. It's all about being active at this family-friendly all-inclusive — golf, beach volleyball, tennis, sailing, kayaking, trapeze, and yoga are a sampling of what's offered. Need a break? Chill out by the pool, where you can take in the sunset. 5 Migis Lodge (South Casco, Maine) BOOK NOW For a classic New England vacation, rent a lakeside cottage at Migis Lodge, an all-inclusive retreat on Sebago Lake (40 minutes northwest of Portland). Take the kids canoeing or fishing, or simply soak up the peaceful lake vistas from your porch. The lodge's menu changes daily, but it always includes fresh Maine lobster. 6 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) BOOK NOW At this Punta Cana all-inclusive resort kids will have a ball playing mini-golf, zooming down a water slide, chilling on a lazy river, playing video games, and checking out the cool rock memorabilia. There's also a dedicated Kids Club, which goes until 10:45 p.m., giving parents time to play a few hands of blackjack in the casino. 7 The Ranch at Rock Creek (Philipsburg, Montana) BOOK NOW At the upscale all-inclusive Ranch at Rock Creek, families can stay in glamping cabins equipped with gas stoves and creek-facing porches. Activities for all ages include learning to horseback ride and fly fish, and after dinner in the Western-themed Granite Lodge, there's bowling in a four-lane alley in the Silver Dollar Saloon. 8 Hotel Riu Palace (Aruba) BOOK NOW On Palm Beach, Aruba's main strand, is the Hotel Riu Palace. At this all-inclusive family resort, you can relax poolside or work up an appetite playing beach volleyball. There are multiple restaurants to choose from, as well as snacks available 24 hours and an ice cream parlor. In the evenings, there's family-friendly entertainment, including karaoke and a magic show. 9 Vista Verde Guest Ranch (Clark, Colorado) BOOK NOW Vista Verde Guest Ranch, near Steamboat Springs, is a classic all-inclusive dude ranch. Sleep in upscale cabins and lodge rooms, dine on hearty comfort food (anything from buttermilk pancakes to potato gnocchi), learn to ride horses and rock climb, enjoy a cooking class and wine tasting, and even join a barn dance! 10 Dreams Rivera Cancun Resort & Spa (Puerto Morelos, Mexico) BOOK NOW The Explorer's Club at the all-inclusive Dreams Riviera Cancun allows kids to hunt for treasure or watch a movie under the stars, while the 'rents can hang by the pool or hit the spa. No one will go hungry — there are nine restaurants to choose from, ranging from a buffet for tacos and burgers to an adults-only French restaurant. 11 Ambergris Cay (Turks and Caicos) BOOK NOW The kids will feel like castaways at this new all-inclusive private island resort in the Caribbean with just 10 luxury villas. Spend your days snorkeling and kayaking, tooling around the island on a bicycle, playing tennis, or taking a beginner boating lesson. Calico Jack is the main restaurant, but there's also 24-hour room service. 12 Disney Hotels (Orlando, Florida) BOOK NOW Kids never tire of Disney World, and to make things easier and more affordable for families, the Orlando theme park giant typically offers a free dining plan when a five-night package at select Disney hotels is purchased (for summer travel; includes park tickets). The plan features two meals and two snacks per day, per person. |
| The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019 - Travel+Leisure Posted: 12 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST Ask the Travel + Leisure staff where we want to travel in 2019, and most of us will answer, honestly, where don't we? When it comes to singling out the best vacation spots and compiling our annual year-end list of the places we're most excited about in the coming months, narrowing down the field is easier said than done. We pore over press releases, tourism statistics, and our overflowing spreadsheets of hotel openings, restaurant debuts, and new flight routes before deciding where to go on vacation. We consider the anecdotal evidence: Where are our friends and families going on vacation? What vacation destinations are we seeing on Instagram? Which places seem to be part of today's travel zeitgeist? And, as always, we turn to our network of travel experts for vacation ideas — trusted writers, hospitality professionals, the travel advisors that make up T+L's A-List — to see where people are actually going, and which places are the ones to watch in the coming year. This year's list of the best vacation spots spans the globe, from exciting southern hemisphere cities like Santiago, Chile, and Brisbane, Australia, to harder-to-reach regions like Langkawi, Malaysia and the Danish Riviera. There are the new capitals of culture — Nairobi, Kenya, home to a emergent design scene, or Panama City, with a deluge of forward-thinking restaurants and bars — and the tourism destinations that are back in fighting form after natural disasters or human conflict, including Puerto Rico, the Turquoise Coast of Turkey, Egypt, and Montecito, California. And, of course, there are the destinations that we haven't heard much about, but certainly will soon — places like India's remote Andaman Islands, or the art and history-filled emirate of Sharjah, in the U.A.E., or the under-the-radar wine scene in Etyek, Hungary. After all, isn't dreaming about places totally new to us — and seeing old favorites in a new light — why we travel in the first place? Here are Travel + Leisure's 50 best places to travel in 2019. If you already know where you're going in the year ahead, share your vacation destination picks with us on social media with #TLBestPlaces. |
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