NYC Experience
The new Westhouse Hotel in New York City has created a variety of family-friendly activities for a unique NYC experience. 
Their Little Collectors program gives your children exclusive access to the city’s most beloved art galleries with a Kid’s Gallery Tour. At FAO Schwartz, enjoy an exclusive store tour with a toy soldier guide. Have time to play on the giant piano and then enjoy a continental breakfast upstairs in a private area. The Teen Glamor Girl package includes a photo shoot with five photos in three outfits plus hair and makeup application. The hotel is located in Midtown Manhattan on W. 55th St. and 7th Avenue close to Carnegie Hall, Central Park and the theater district. Guests are referred to as Hotel Residents and for $30/adult per day your rate also includes breakfast, afternoon tea, hors d’oeuvres, evening canapés, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, barista coffees, in room water selection, internet and unlimited access to the business center services.
Families Welcome at Canyon Ranch
Did you know that Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa on Miami Beach is family friendly? You can now combine a great wellness getaway with your next family vacation. At least one family-friendly class is offered each day, with more on weekends and during holiday periods. Classes include Family Fitness, Family Yoga and Family Fit. Families with children ages 5 through 13 can also book these classes as private or small-group activities along with Dance and Beach Olympics classes. Kids R Fit, for ages 5 through 8 and Youth Fit for ages 9 through 13 are complimentary programs that teach children the various aspects of wellness. Teenagers 14 and older are welcome in all fitness and mind-body classes while the Wellness Spa offers a full menu of specially designed spa services just for teens. Families can swim in the Cabana Pool and kids who are large enough for the climbing harnesses may participate in rock-wall climbing with their parents. Spacious one and two bedroom suites provide ample room for families. From May to December, stay three nights and get one night free (some black-out dates apply)!
Four Seasons Orlando
The Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort is poised to bring a new level of luxury to the theme park next summer. 
The 444 room hotel will be located within the gates of a residential community, Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort, which is surrounded by a natural everglades sanctuary. The hotel will showcase several pools, lazy river, two waterslides and a water play area along with a gym, fitness classes, tennis, spa, kids club and family game room. It will also have three restaurants, including a rooftop steakhouse with views of the Magic Kingdom Park fireworks show. Tom Fazio designed the Osprey Ridge Golf Course, an existing 18-hole championship course. It is now being renovated and will be managed by Four Seasons.
Lakeside in Lake Tahoe
The Landing Resort & Spa, Lake Tahoe’s first lakeside five-star luxury resort, is set to open this month. The 88-room property is located three 
blocks from Heavenly Village and Gondola, and guestrooms are equipped with fireplaces, private decks and private beach access. It also features an oversized stone-faced fireplace in the lobby, outdoor fire pits on a lakeside patio outside the new Jimmy’s Restaurant, an outdoor pool and hot tub and free ski storage, ski valet services and boot warmers. Other amenities include an extensive wine cellar, a fitness center and full-service spa. Accommodations range from rooms to a three bedroom suite. Through January 30, get 10 percent off week-end stays and 15 percent off weekday stays.
Loews Atlanta
Through the end of the year, your family can experience an undersea adventure with two packages from Loews Atlanta: Family VIP Aquarium Package or Exclusive Family VIP Aquarium Package. Spend a day at the incredible Georgia Aquarium with admission for two adults and two children. Your ticket includes Deepo’s Undersea 3-D Wondershow Movie, the AT&T Dolphin Tales Show (requires advance reservations) and the Changing Exhibit Gallery. The Exclusive package is for ages 10 and up offers a Behind the Scenes tour where you will visit the top of the live coral reef exhibit, observe where the aquarium team cares for the animals and prepares their food at the Commissary and Veterinary Clinic and enjoy the view at the top of the largest ocean exhibit in North America. Your package also includes a spacious hotel room, free transportation to the aquarium, free self-parking at the hotel and a “Loews Loves Kids” amenity when you arrive.
South Beach for Families
The James Royal Palm in South Beach, FL recently unveiled the Lil’ James Play space, an indoor and outdoor play area designed in partnership with the Miami Children’s Museum. 
The area is filled with child-friendly activities including artist easels, activity tables and sand and water play stations. At check-in your children receive backpacks filled with an activity crate from Kiwi Crate, a company that delivers hands-on learning through arts, crafts and science. It also includes information about ways to experience Miami as a family. The hotel features children’s menus with organic options, turndown service with milk and cookies, preloaded iPads and Kindles with child-friendly books and apps, Nintendo Wii consoles and board games, children’s bike rentals and more. The hotel also showcases a spa, two pools with cabanas, free internet, gym and a variety of family-friendly room categories such as 1-3 bedroom apartments. It’s also pet friendly! Each of the James Hotel properties (Chicago, New York and South Beach) offer different children’s programming components to create a unique family travel experience.
Celebrate Babar in New York
The five-star Hotel Plaza Athenee in New York is celebrating Babar’s 80th anniversary 
with a variety of hotel packages, welcome gifts and special events. The Babar Children’s Package offers connecting rooms or a two bed suite, breakfast daily, tickets to the Central Park Zoo and Top of the Rock observation deck at Rockefeller Center, milk and cookies turndown, loaner Babar DVD and a cute welcome basket with a plush toy, picture book and kaleidoscope. Babar, the royal elephant, has been the subject of more than 100 books in 17 languages. Future Babar events at the hotel will include themed birthday parties, story time and holiday-themed parties. The 142 room hotel located at 64th and Madison also offers Children’s Afternoon Tea, a children’s cocktail menu in the Bar Seine Lounge, restaurant, spa and gym. It recently completed a multimillion dollar renovation of guest rooms and suites with contemporary European townhouse decor.
All Aboard the Polar Express
Give your children a little holiday magic with the Polar Express Package at the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Your package includes breakfast daily and one Premier ticket to the Polar Express for each family member, along with complimentary Christmas cookies upon arrival. The Polar Express train takes your family on a journey to the North Pole and a visit with Santa and his elves. Proceeds benefit various literacy charities in New England. Other hotel perks include complimentary internet and daily historical hotel tours. You will also find a gym, spa, indoor pool, movie theater, working farm and several dining options and can enjoy sledding, snow tubing, ice skating and cross-country skiing right at the hotel. This package is available for stays after November 29 with a minimum of two-nights.
Kidvasion in San Diego
Travel to San Diego during the month of October for Kids Free San Diego, nicknamed Kidvasion. Enjoy free children’s admission to
over 100 family attractions, museums, restaurants and with transportation companies. Participating attractions include the San Diego Zoo, Legoland, Belmont Park, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and SeaWorld. In conjunction, children ride free on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner train where one child ages 2-15 rides free with each adult rail fare purchased for travel to and from Oceanside, Old Town San Diego and San Diego Downtown station. You can travel from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange County and points in-between. A variety of hotels are also offering specials to celebrate.
Precocious Plates at Loews
Loews Hotel & Resorts introduced a new children’s menu, called Precocious Plates, for children 12 and under. The new menu will be available at Loews signature restaurants, including Maritana Grille 
at the Loews Don CeSar in St. Pete Beach, Fla.; Café Adelaide at Loews New Orleans and Ocean & Vine at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. The idea is to offer dishes adults typically order but in children’s sized portions. The menu features half portions, including, depending on restaurant, Kobe Short Rib, Shrimp and Grits Tarragon Tiger Shrimp with Lobster Risotto at Ocean & Vine. “Typically kids’ menus cater to picky eaters and cover basics like chicken fingers and hamburgers, but kids with a healthy appetite and an adventurous palate shouldn’t have to feel left out,” said Executive Chef Keith Roberts at Ocean & Vine. “This is our solution.”
