Legoland Hotel
The LEGOLAND California Resort will open the LEGOLAND Hotel in the summer of 2013. 
The 250-room hotel is being designed to give guests the same interactive family experience that has brought success to LEGOLAND California, Sea Life Carlsbad Aquarium and the LEOGLAND Water Park. Created to bring young children’s imaginations to life, the LEGO themed hotel will feature brightly colored LEGO decor, a pool area and restaurant. Legoland Hotel will be the first of its kind in North America. While this is the first LEGOLAND Hotel in the United States, it will be the third in the world following LEGOLAND Windsor Hotel’s opening in 2012 in England and LEGOLAND Billund, which opened a 176-room LEGOLAND Hotel in 1991 in Denmark. The LEGOLAND California Resort is geared for families with children between the ages of 2 and 12. You will find more than 60 rides, shows and attractions including a waterpark and all-new Star Wars Miniland.
Family Fun in Scottsdale
Through December 31, the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale entices you with their FUN Family Vacation package with a $100 per day resort credit, guaranteed connecting rooms or a suite upgrade and three meals a day for 
your children 12 and under for just $18 per day. This upscale resort showcases a lazy river pool and waterslide, poolside cabanas, quiet adult-only pool, tennis program with clinics, lessons and cardio classes, great golf with junior and adult clinics and lessons and a variety of unique family activities organized by the resort’s award winning FUN team such as Movies on the Green where you watch a movie from a golf cart, week-end camp fires, kids culinary program, daily activities and more.
New Four Seasons
A new Four Seasons Hotel is set to open this November in Baltimore’s Harbor East amongst an array of dining, shopping and family-friendly attractions including the National Aquarium, Camden Yards and the Maryland Science Center. The 256-room hotel will feature the largest hotel art collection in the city (featuring purchased and commissioned pieces by Washington Color School and other contemporary artists), a Michael Mina restaurant, spa, gym and infinity pool. The luxury resort chain also recently announced it will build a new property for the Walt Disney World Resort with a scheduled opening in 2014. The development will offer a 444-room Four Seasons resort plus up to 40 Four Seasons Residence Club units and up to 90 Four Seasons private residences. Also planned are several dining venues including a rooftop restaurant with Magic Kingdom views; a 14,000-square-foot spa with 18 treatment rooms; a fitness center; three pools and a “lazy river”; sports facilities with tennis courts, basketball court and a climbing wall and two recreational centers for children, teens and families. The development will encompass the existing Osprey Ridge golf course, which will be renovated and subsequently managed by Four Seasons.
Omni Kids Fantasy Suites
The Omni San Francisco; Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH and the Omni Parker House in Boston, MA now feature one-of-a-kind Omni Kid’s Fantasy Suites with kid’s furniture, colorful bedding, beanbag chairs, art table, games and books with a connecting room available for the rest of the family. The deluxe chain’s Texas Sensory Kid Suites at 5 Lone Star State properties in Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have also been designed to stimulate the senses of young travelers with colorful bedding, beanbag chairs, an art table, board games, books, cozy bath robes, aquatic-themed bath accessories and a complimentary Kids’ Sensation Bar filled with toys, trinkets and snacks. On arrival, your children will also receive an Omni Sensational Kids backpack made of reusable material which carries a “Discovery” map with travel games, washable crayons, a magnifying glass and more. The backpack can be used throughout their trip to gather trinkets and treasures from their daily travels. At the end of your first day, kids are treated to cookies and milk in their guest room.
Teens Rock in Tucson
The JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson recently opened the hip Blur Teen Lounge. Blur features games, technology, movies, and funky furnishings for guests age 13 to 19. 
Open holidays and every Friday and Saturday, the teen club offers two Apple iPads for teens to access their email or social media accounts; an Xbox 360 game system with motion-tracking Kinect games; a new PlayStation 3Move game system with motion gaming technology; two 42-inch LCD HDTVs for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation gaming area; a movie area with a 46-inch LCD HDTV and a library of DVDs; and couches and lounge chairs. On week-end nights from 7:30-10:30 p.m., Blur will offer a Poptail Hour, during which teens can help prepare their own signature soda drink, participate in video gaming challenges, and catch a movie in the lounge’s theater area. Various hotel promotions abound including a Family Swing & Fling package through December 30, 2011 with a deluxe room, $50 per night resort credit, unlimited golf for 2 adults and 2 children, children eat free (12 and under), complimentary appetizer or dessert with entree at Catalina BBQ Co., free internet, free self parking and 10 percent off retail purchases.
Free Dining at Disney
Free dining is back at Walt Disney World if you book by October 29, 2011 with at least a four night stay and Magic Your Way package with airport transfers, hotel room and park tickets included. Book a Disney Value Resort and your family will receive a free Quick-Service Dining Plan or book a package at select Disney Moderate, Deluxe or Deluxe Villa Resorts and get a free Disney Dining Plan. Your package includes accommodations, a Magic Your Way base ticket, and the dining plan. Travel between October 2, 2011 and March 31, 2012, but several black-out dates apply. With the Disney Dining Plan, children ages 3 to 9 must order from children’s menu if available. The offer excludes gratuities and alcoholic beverages. Some table-service restaurants may have limited or no availability at time of package purchase; so it’s wise to book early!
Discover Family at South Seas
Discover and share lifelong family memories with South Seas Resort’s Discover Family Package available through September 30. 
This fun-filled package highlights some of the magical reasons South Seas made Parent’s Magazine’s list of “Top 10 Beach Resorts for Families”. Your package includes a two bedroom marina villa or beach villa; banana boat ride for a family of four; Dolphin & Wildlife Adventure Cruise; $50 resort credit at the resort’s ice cream and pizza shop; daily half day Sanibel Sea School Classes for two children (a fabulous hands-on marine science educational programs); GO! Fish fishing program; gift pack (string backpack, binoculars, 7-in-1 whistle, canteen and Nature Guide); “I Spy” checklist and four bikes. Rates start at $529 per night, based on two adults and two children and there is a four-night minimum. South Seas recently underwent a $140 million rebirth and other activities available include golf, tennis, water sports, marina, restaurants, shops, great beaches, pools and waterpark.
Ritz Carlton Teens
The Ritz Carlton Palm Beach is showcasing a new teen club called Coast for ages 13-17. 
Your teens can create their own DJ mix and upload it to their iPod, play video games, surf the internet, play billiards, or just hang out and play pool or Guitar Hero. On many nights, Coast becomes a teen-friendly club with music and dancing. There is also an upscale salon for teens called Beauty@Coast where make-up application, hair styling, manicures, dress-up and more can be commemorated with a glamour shot. This beautiful oceanfront resort showcases two pools, spa, tennis, watersports, kids and teen clubs, bike rentals, cabana rentals with service, technology butlers and pre-programmed GPS units to use to get around to all the best sights, shops and restaurants in the area. Current promotions at the property include a third night free with breakfast and parking included and a fourth night free for club level accommodations with parking included.
Sleep Well in NYC
Children can learn the value of a good night’s sleep at The Benjamin located in Midtown East in New York City. 
The hotel’s Winks’ Kidzzz Club is led by Winks the Owl, who serves as the fictional mascot and ambassador for the program. He teaches children the importance of a good night’s sleep; so they can wake rested and ready to take on Manhattan, and provides families with the latest information on family friendly restaurants and activities in the city. The Winks’ Kidzzz Club, available to children ages two to 12, includes: use of Kid-sized robes; use of iPod pillow programmed with lullabies and audio bedtime stories; lending library of family favorite bedtime books and an official Winks’ Kidzzz Club Sleep Certificate awarded upon check-out. To celebrate the new sleep program, the boutique hotel is offering a Having a Hoot in NYC package, starting at $394 a night and valid through September 15. It features a “good night’s sleep” in a double bed deluxe studio; a Winks the Owl plus toy; a delicious sundae from The National, the restaurant by Food Network Chef Geoffrey Zakarian located within the hotel; four tickets to the Central Park Zoo to meet Flaco, the zoo’s only Eagle Owl; a list of NYC family-friendly attractions and activities taking place this summer and a disposable digital camera to capture all the fun.
First Family in Washington
Travel in style like the First Family and enjoy an inspiring family vacation in the Nation’s Capital. 
It’s always easy to fill your days with entertaining things to do in Washington, D.C., and it’s even easier during the summertime with visits to the National Aquarium, bike rides around the monuments and memorials, and complimentary concerts on the national mall. Ritz Carlton’s First Family package is now available for $399/night at the Ritz Carlton Washington located in the West End and $419/night at the more intimate Ritz Carlton in Georgetown. Your packages includes a deluxe room, full American breakfast for 2 adults and 2 children, Ritz Kids patriotic backpack, hotel scavenger hunt with special prize, free internet, free in-house movie and overnight valet parking.
