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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rosewood Mayakoba 
Banyan Tree Mayakoba 
Disney Cruise
Sea Island
Ritz Grand Cayman
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I personally love luxury resorts that have a good kids club. Most of the resort feels catered to couples but there are some kid activities. I thought Rosewood and Banyan Tree did this well.[/quote]

These places are SO expensive.  I always see them suggested here, and when I checked the prices, I felt the same when I felt when I learned that some people are spending thousands of dollars on a purse.  I just had no idea people could spend that much!  I'm sure they are lovely, though.  The Disney cruise is a rip-off, but we have done that and would maybe do it again if not for COVID.

OP, I think people have different ideas of what is vacation, and it depends both on them and on the kids.  Personally, I HATE renting a place because I end up doing a lot of work and feel like I do all the same stuff just in a different location -- and one which is normally not as nice or as well stocked as my own house/kitchen -- plus I feel like the kids have all the same fights they do at home, but without all the separate rooms and toys that I can use to separate/distract them.  But my husband loves it because it feels low stress to him and he doesn't have to juggle schedules.  The cruises were the vacations where I could read a book, drink a cocktail, etc., without feeling like things would come off the rails if I relaxed.

The other fun vacations were the ones where I just planned stuff that both the kids and I would like, and just had an itinerary and stuck to it.  Jackson Hole/Teton/Yallowstone worked well for that, but it was a lot of work to plan.  If you do that, you need to be REALLY realistic about what the kids' needs are.  It ended up working well to schedule a couple hours downtime n the afternoon for everyone -- my husband would nap with the kids and I would find a coffee shop and read a book (and maybe run a load of laundry while I was at it), or take a stroll around and look at cute stores.  I have a strong preference for lodging that is walking distance to things that I would enjoy, because then when the husband and kids want "downtime" to get on screens or nap, I do not feel like I am trapped, but can go for a little stroll the way I did on vacations pre-kids.  So my usual itinerary was morning activity, lunch, down time for non-moms, dinner and maybe another short activity, sleep.  My kid also like a place with a pool and that seems to make them less likely to fight, so I also look for that.  I found that once I accepted that the kids WANTED to have an hour or two per day on screens or just sitting in the hotel room reading a book, and that was okay and not a failure of me as a mom, I could actually have a better vacation because they weren't as fussy and I could get a little time to myself to explore, which is what I like to do on vacation.  That was one of those "a-ha" mom moments for me.  Sometimes the oldest comes with me on my strolls now.  This is another downside to rentals for me--- they typically are not in great strolling areas (but can be in places like big cities).[/quote]

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