A Week of Family Fun
Description:
Your children can enjoy a full schedule of eco-tours, dive-snorkel charters, fishing trips and visits to area attractions, such as museums, nature centers or dolphin encounters.. You'll also find plenty of free activities to keep your kids entertained between excursions. Several waterfront restaurants thoughtfully provide docks where children can feed tropical fish or see huge tarpon. The Keys also have plenty of playgrounds, parks and beaches.
Author: Julie
Day 1 - Florida Keys
Hawk's Cay Resort is a family mecca. Several restaurants on property will delight, especially the Beach Grill, but if you want some other affordable options, read on. Hawk's Cay has it all: watersports, beach, dolphins, fishing and more! Dinner at Whale Harbor means an endless buffet of seafood and American style great grub for the entire family, without breaking the bank.
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Theater of the Sea
Location:
view in google maps84721 Overseas Highway
Florida Keys, FL 33036
Phone:
+1 305 664 24312
Hawk's Cay Resort
Location:
view in google maps61 Hawk's Cay Boulevard
At MM 61
Florida Keys, FL 33050
Phone:
+1 305 743 7000Day 2 - Florida Keys
Start the day in the Upper Keys to make your way back to the Middle. Pennekamp is the oldest marine park in the US, named after the Miami Herald editor. It's about the outdoors and nature here in the Keys, and Dolphins Pus lends an insider's view to these calming, healing creatures. One of the quirkiest places in the Keys, Robbie's Marina, allows you to get a bait bucket and for a couple bucks feed them to GIANT tarpon!
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John Pennekamp Visitor Center / Museum
Location:
view in google mapsP.O. Box 487
Florida Keys, FL 33037
Phone:
305-451-12022
Squid Row Restaurant
Location:
view in google maps81901 Overseas Highway
Oceanside
Florida Keys, FL 33036
Phone:
+1 305 664 98653
Dolphins Plus Inc.
Location:
view in google maps31 Corrine Place
Florida Keys, FL 33037
Phone:
+1 866 860 79464
Robbie's Marina
Location:
view in google maps77-5 Overseas Highway
Florida Keys, FL 33036
Phone:
+1 305 664 98145
Whale Harbor Inn
Location:
view in google mapsMile Marker 83.5
Florida Keys, FL 33036
Phone:
+1 305 664 4959Day 3 - Key West
You've headed north (well, technically, east) from your hotel for a day, now it's time to head west, to the Southernmost Point of the US! Does that make sense? Old Town Trolley tours give you a crash course in the history of Key West, but affords you the luxury to hop on and off in many locations. Eliminates having to navigate yourself! Back to nature here, too, with thousands of butterflies fluttering around you spilling color throughout the Conservatory, and a stop at the Aquarium will make the kids squeal with delight in look-and-touch fashion. Then Ahoy, mates! on to Pirate Soul Museum. Swash-bucklers love the Keys, and pirates still abound! (Just in fun, they won't steal your booty) It seems like a lot jammed in the day, but a half-hour parasail is a great aerial precursor to the beautiful sunset you'll see at Mallory Square amidst street performers, jugglers and artistans.
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Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory
Location:
view in google maps1316 Duval Street
Key West, FL 33040
Phone:
+1 305 296 29883
Key West Aquarium
Location:
view in google maps1 Whitehead Street
At Mallory Sq
Key West, FL 33040
Phone:
+1 800 868 7482 / +1 305 296 20514
Pirate Soul
Location:
view in google maps524 Front Street
Key West, FL 33040
Phone:
+1 305 292 11136
Mallory Square
Location:
view in google maps300 Duval St
(at Front St)
Key West, FL 33040
Phone:
+1 305 296 4557Day 4 - Florida Keys
Ah, Marathon. The Heart of the Florida Keys, the family island. Today is to be fun, relaxing and educational all at the same time. The Florida Keys celebrates over 100 years of conservation and preservation heritage, and stops at the "DRC" to learn about how smart dolphins and sea lions really are, the world's ONLY veterinarian turtle hospital and Crane Point Hammock's children's museum only make you appreciate this planet more. Save a late afternoon stroll on the Old Seven Mile Bridge - you can make bets who sees the spotted eagle rays, turtles and sharks first! You'll get a birds-eye view along with the pelicans and egrets that swoop by looking for fish to grab for dinner.
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Dolphin Research Center
Location:
view in google maps58901 Overseas Highway
Florida Keys, FL 33050
Phone:
+1 305 289 1121 / +1 305 289 00022
Turtle Hospital
Location:
view in google maps2396 Overseas Highway
Florida Keys, FL
Phone:
305-743-25523
Florida Keys Children's Museum
Location:
view in google maps5550 Overseas Highway
MM 50.5 Bayside
Florida Keys, FL 33050
Phone:
+1 305 743 91004
Old Seven Mile Bridge
Location:
view in google mapsMile Marker 47, U.S 1
U.S. 1
Florida Keys, FL 33050
Phone:
+1 800 352 53975
Annette's Lobster & Steak House
Location:
view in google maps3660 Overseas Highway
Florida Keys, FL 33050
Phone:
305-743-5516Day 5 - Key West, Florida Keys
Let's chill today. It's Sunday-Funday. About twenty minutes west (seems like south again!) of Marathon, halfway to Key West, lie the Lower Keys. A famous place there, Bahia Honda State Park, is one of the most photographed parks and beach in the world. Site of Earth Day special events every year, Bahia Honda is a great way to wile away a morning-to-early afternoon before the sun gets too hot. For lunch, make your way the short distance back to Big Pine Key, and a left turn at the light will take you to No Name Key, for the namesake pub with the best pizza around. Tonight, back in Marathon, if you feel up to a little live music, head a few minutes into town from the resort and have a burger from the tiki grill at the famous Dockside Lounge and enjoy the tradition of "Sunday Jam" til sundown with the Florida Straits Band.
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Bahia Honda State Park
Location:
view in google mapsMile Marker 37.5
Big Pine Key
Key West, FL 33043
Phone:
+1 305 872 23532
No Name Pub
Location:
view in google mapsNorth Watson Boulevard
1 1/2 mile north of U.S 1
Florida Keys, FL 33043
Phone:
305 872 91153
Dockside Lounge
Location:
view in google maps35 Sombrero Boulevard
Bayside
Florida Keys, FL 33037
Phone:
305 743 0000