Kid friendly Caribbean vacation destinations?

Asked by metadog (378

) June 1st, 2010

Hi, we are starting to look at a trip for 2011. 2 adults, a 7 year old and a 12 year old. We are looking for destinations easily accessible from Orlando, FL. We hope to be able to combine a trip to Disney with a island beach trip. Can you suggest any good, safe, kid friendly destinations? We have passports so leaving the US is no big deal. We don’t want a long flight from Orlando (maybe under 2 hours?). Thanks in advance!

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It depends on what you mean by ‘kid friendly’. Are they allowed to see people in bikinis? You may want to find a resort because the atmosphere is more tourist and americanized, but you can’t control what happens farther away from it. The bahamas is a regular tourist trap, but outside parts of the atlantis its very ghetto.

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Both St. John in the US Virgin Islands and Virgin Gorda in the British Virgins are lovely. On St John, there are set-up campgrounds if you are into camping. Vrigin Gorda has a great little beach called the Baths that has cave structures and rocks that are great fun to explore.

Atlantis is “safe” but quite big and hokey.

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why not a disney cruise???/

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Grand Cayman is a good kid destination.

marinelife (62485

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We have done the Disney cruise twice and really liked it. We were looking for a new experience. Maybe a little less Disney, we will be at the parks on that trip for sure.

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