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East Coast Travel
The Top Family-friendly Resorts for Family Fun
By Elisa Ast All
The 27-acre Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa in Orlando, Fla., is an on-site, Official Downtown Disney Resort Area Hotel. The award-winning resort features a staggering 1,014 rooms and suites; a European-style spa, salon and fitness center; eight restaurants and lounges; three pools; tennis; volleyball; concierge service and 24-hour room service. Directly across from the Downtown Disney Marketplace, Pleasure Island and West Side, the 27-story resort offers complimentary transportation to Disney theme parks and access to five championship Disney golf courses.
The Wyndham Palace is like a little town within a larger city. With everything you need at your fingertips, you can be tempted to stay there the entire time. The rooms are elegant and decorated with dark woods and modern amenities. It feels like a rich corporate retreat, and indeed, certain floors of the Palace treat you like visiting royalty. You will have a newspaper delivered to your door, find continental breakfast waiting for you in the lounge, a quick-response room service team and much more at your service.
For the children, there's a great playground, pool and game room – in addition to the baby-sitting services offered – and great kids' meals, too! For the parents, the spa is a fantastic diversion. Take turns getting massages or facials – you deserve it!
Contact the Wyndham Palace at 407-827-2727 or www.wyndhamorlandohotels.com.
Walking into the Renaissance Orlando, you look up and see the largest indoor atrium you've ever seen. In fact, at 10 stories high, it is the largest tropical resort atrium lobby in the world.
This luxurious 778-room, four diamond resort offers very large and comfortable guest rooms, five restaurants and four lounges. The food is excellent. Ranging from Italian to Japanese and everything in between, you can find all that you – and your kids – desire on the menus.
Speaking of kids, children are well taken care of at the Renaissance. A fun gated playground is adjacent to a perfect-sized kiddie pool. Simply pull up a lounge chair facing the water and let your kids play! The water is a pleasant temperature and the perfect depth for toddlers. Lunch by the pool is terrific, with enough choices to please child and parent palates.