We would like to be children to be able to play in the kids club of the Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay.
Do not be selfish. If you usually choose the hotels for your vacations or getaways for their interior design, for their activities or for the services they offer.
Why not do the same with kids club in which your children will spend part of their leisure time? What is the point of traveling miles and miles to reach a beach destination or a resort in the middle of nature if then the poor are going to end up in a basement with neon lights coloring a notebook with little drawings?
We believe that you should also worry about the spaces where children are likely to end up going to play and hang out –remember that they will make friends and that they will come on their own initiative–, so if you are lost, here we propose this series of mini clubs around the world whose decoration looks like something out of a design magazine and where the workshops are so interesting and alternative that you will want to sign up and share a (vintage) desk with them.
NOBU HOTEL IBIZA BAY
Few places in Ibiza can compete with the Nobu hotel in beauty and comfort. Once you get to know it, you will believe that there is no such place on the island, with its wooden and wicker furniture, its hanging hammocks, its swimming pool with views of Talamanca Bay... until you enter its endearing kids club and discover a place of relaxed fantasy in which animal heads made of vegetable fibers decorate the walls and educational wooden toys occupy its shelves.
Here the little ones (from 4 to 12 years old) can enjoy cooking workshops, Ibizan crafts or even junior DJs, all in tune with the environment in which the hotel is located. It also has a school for pirates and mermaids. Activities coordinated by qualified professionals who will be in charge of entertaining and educating the children while you dedicate yourself to swimming in the Mediterranean or feasting on any of its excellent restaurants: Nobu (Japanese fusion), Chambao (Mediterranean cuisine) or Peyote (Mexican updated).
Relaxed and stylish decoration in the kids club of Nobu Hotel Ibiza Bay, with views of the Mediterranean.
** BE LIVE COLLECTION PUNTA CANA **
People travel to Punta Cana to be on the beach all day, under the shade of a palm tree, drinking something cool and with their feet sunk in the sand. And they too, don't forget. That is why we love the kids club (from 8 to 12 years old) at this five-star hotel, which rests directly on the beach, with the Caribbean Sea just a few meters away and sheltered from the sun and heat under the lush native vegetation.
For its part, the space dedicated to adolescents is like a kind of colorful bar for surfers –there are boards hanging on the walls– with billiards, pin-pon table and computers.
And to top it off, Be Live Collection Punta Cana has a restaurant that makes pizzas in a wood-fired oven and a Burger Corner where you can try everything from hamburgers to burritos.
The kids club of the Be Live Collection Punta Cana rests directly on the beach of Punta Cana, with the Caribbean Sea right in front of it.
LE MERIDIEN RA BEACH HOTEL & SPA
Although at first glance the Le Meridien Ra may seem like a hotel designed solely for the use and enjoyment of adults –with its magnificent Explore Spa with Thalasso and Ayurvedic treatments–, the truth is that its family program is very complete: creative workshops where it is painted, yes, but outside the lines if they so wish, perhaps an Olympics on the beach? or some classes diving in the pool for teenagers.
The kids club (from 4 to 10 years old) stands out for its huge world map, for its recreational and educational activities adapted to all ages and for its giant construction game. There's also drama, gardening, crafting, and instrument practice and even a most delicious ice cream workshop. oh! And remember that since you are on the Costa Dorada, Port Aventura is only 40 kilometers from the hotel.
Kids club at Le Meridien Ra Hotel & Spa, on the Costa Dorada.
SONEVA KIRI
Like something out of a Jules Verne book, this is The Den kids club at this luxury resort with villas scattered around the Thai island of Koh Kood. A giant patio created in bamboo shaped like a stingray, designed for learning and to arouse children's emotions. There are workshops to learn to play Thai instruments, rainforest tours and visits to local schools that will leave a positive and authentic mark on children.
And the dream of every child (also of some adults): a courtesy ice cream parlor open from morning to night with more than 50 flavors to choose from and a chocolate shop that Willy Wonka would like for himself for his chocolate factory.
The smallest of the hotel (from 1 to 5 years old) have their own separate space, the Eco Den, with four paddling pools for splashing, with its own slide, and participatory and environmentally responsible toys.
The Den, the incredible children's area at the Soneva Kiri hotel in Thailand.
MARTINHAL SAGRES
Raposinhos, which means 'little fox' in Portuguese, is the name given to the kids club (from 2 to 5 years old) of the family hotel Martinhal Sagres, in the Algarve (Portugal), because in it children can be just as alert and curious than this active animal. For this they will have at their disposal a lot of games, puzzles and educational activities designed to arouse their interest and imagination.
And so that tweens and teens don't get bored (complicated task) the Explorers Club and Blast Club (respectively) will keep them entertained with outdoor activities such as windsurfing and surfing, lifeguard courses, bicycle routes, cocktail contest... There are also all kinds of game consoles, but it's almost better that they don't find out about that until the last day.
In addition, all Martinhal Family Hotels & Resorts accommodations are specialists in children, so thanks to their Baby Concierge you will not have to carry all the children's gear, since they they will equip you with high chairs, cots, strollers, bathtubs, sterilisers... there is even a market where you can buy jars, diapers or creams.
Children's curiosity is aroused at the Martinhal Sagres's Raposinhos kids club.
MARBELLA CLUB
A small town of 5,000 m2 It is the kids club of the Marbella Club. Thus, in the gardens of the former villa of Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe-Langenburg, today the little guests of the hotel (from the age of 4 without a companion) will be able to practice gardening, music, dance, sports, cooking workshops (gazpacho, paella or pizza) or perfumes. Yes, you read it right, they will be able to create their own fragrances taking inspiration from the scents of the garden.
The archeology activities, crazy experiments and the original Yogi Flamenco, "Namasté and Olé!", they add, attract attention.
Designed by the company Minimec, we love the fittings and the furniture that reinterprets the old style, such as the horses and wooden desks, brass buckets, straw brooms, metal wheelbarrows...
Garden and orchard of the Marbella Club kids club, a 5,000 square meter mini-village within the hotel.
THE WESTIN RESORT COSTA NAVARINO
From 4 months to 3 years, in the Cocoon play area babies will develop skills and abilities appropriate to their age and they will rest in mini rooms designed as if it were a hotel. There are also coordination games and fine and gross motor skills and different children's vehicles. They will learn to draw, sculpt and participate in non-competitive sports.
In the SandCastle space, children between 4 and 12 years old will enjoy archeology and origami workshops, They will carry out theatrical activities and cook from healthy pizzas to smoothies and will learn the benefits of the Greek and, therefore, Mediterranean diet.
The hotel, located on the west coast of Greece and bathed by the Ionian Sea, also has a water park and with an American-style restaurant with a bowling alley, billiards and a cinema included.
Cocoon Play Area, at The Westin Resort, Costa Navarino, Greece.
HOTEL BARRIÈRE MAJESTIC CANNES
It is true that this mega-luxury hotel on the French coast is more known for its casinos and because during the Cannes Festival there are many well-known faces and movie stars who pass (and pose) by it, but on this occasion what we want to highlight is its cinematographic kids club.
Le Studio by Petit Vip is a space specially designed for develop different performing arts, from photography sessions to soundtrack composition, make-up, film or even costume design workshops. Pure creativity for children between 4 and 12 years old who want to discover the trades related to the seventh art. This way you will feel less guilty when you disappear for a couple of hours in their Spa Diane Barrière to enjoy a personalized beauty and well-being treatment.
IBEROSTAR VARADERO
We know that what children like most about this hotel located in the northwest of the island of Cuba is its water park with boats equipped with slides and impossible climbing areas. But what we like the most is that your kids club (between 4 and 12 years old) does not have walls, that the little ones can feel the 'life' of the hotel while doing fun and educational activities.
Specifically the more than 140 activities included in the children's Star Camp program of the Iberostar group, which innovatively combines entertainment and values. The intelligences described by Howard Gardner in his Theory of Multiple Intelligences are worked on and enhanced naturally through team sports, events, group challenges, board games, journalism workshops, music workshops, robot creation...
Upon arrival at the hotel the Monkeys (from 4 to 7 years old) and the Dolphins (between 8 and 12 years old) will receive a equipment kit which includes a passport in which the 'visited countries' (activities related to each type of intelligence) can be stamped. For their part, the oldest, the Eagles (from 13 to 17), will receive colored bracelets for each of them.
In the kids club of the Iberostar Varadero hotel there are no walls and there is plenty of fun and learning.
THE ST. REGIS SAADIYAT ISLAND RESORT
The HBA interior design studio has accustomed us to devising mega-luxury hotels that do not lack the smallest detail, so we knew that they were not going to neglect the kids club of such an exclusive establishment like The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, in Abu Dhabi.
Mediterranean in style with Arab influences, the hotel boasts a children's area called sandcastle-club (from 1 to 12 years old, children under 4 must be accompanied) with an interior area whose appearance resembles that of a cave and another exterior with swimming pool and game courts. Yoga, pictionary, limbo, Simon says, memory games... are some of the activities offered.