Travel Reports
How to relax with small kids???
Book an All inclusive Resort and bring friends (with kids) along!
Although we are not beachy people, coming from an island ourselves, we were intrigued by the deals we were getting at various ALL INCLUSIVE resorts during the shoulder season - KIDS STAY and EAT FREE is always an eye catcher, and that various alcoholic refeshements were thrown in for the adults was a plus in our books! We booked at DREAMS RESORT in LA ROMANA, and had a fabulous time. we flew from Aruba to SDQ in one hour ( of course with some delay given the fact that you are traveling within the caribbean islands) and had to drive another 2 hrs to get to the hotel. But we booked a private bus transfer and the fun started already on our drive over.
Our party consisted of 4 couples and 7 kids, and that proved to be a magic number. During the days we lazed around the pool, while the kids played with each other or joined the other kids at the hotels excellent kids club. Both the pool and beach had great beach toys like water trampoline and a aqua rock climb. So while the adults played cards and sipped our pina colada’s the kids frolicked in the water. Every evening we selected one of the 8 Specialty restaurants for dinner and arrived early so we could sit the kids on one table and the adults on the other. As the kids entertained themselves, we were able to hold adult conversations during dinner (what a treat!) And because the kids were so tired after a full day of beach, we easily put them to bed after dinner and took turns heading off to the casino or ballroom dancing at the lobby bar (hmmm, that was the only lowlight of the vacation, we expected to learn merengue (= local dance) and the ladies hoped to meet a Patrick Swayze kinda guy to teach us ( a la Dirty dancing 
It was to date the most relaxing vacation I had in a group and with my kids and everyone enjoyed it thoroughly! Needless to say the hotel was wonderful, food excellent and great staff! Definitely worth a repeat visit in our books.