Today is only Monday and the kids are not going back to school until next week. Yes, with New Year’s Day on aThursday, this year’s December school vacation really is longer than usual!
So what are you going to do with the kids during the upcoming Martin Luther King week-end and the February vacation?
This week my family and I spent a weekend at the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort in North Conway, New Hampshire. North Conway is well-known to parents of young children as “Story Land country”, but it is also a great family ski destination .
Amenities and off-slope activities are an important consideration when booking a family ski vacation. And the Red Jacket Mountainview has lots to keep your kids busy.
The Red Jacket’s newest addition is truly its main attraction- the hotel has its own indoor waterpark- Kahuna Laguna. My kids spent most of their time zooming through the four slides- there are two body slides and two tube slides. For little kids there is a water tower activity area with small slides and lots of sprayers. There is a large activity pool with 2- foot wave action and a water court area too. There is also a 25 -person hot tub – which is where I (and all the other vacationing Moms) spent most of the time! There are lots of lifeguards and no lines either- Kahuna Laguna is open only to hotel guests so it is never crowded.
The hotel offers lots of fun for kids- a huge arcade room, sledding on the hotel’s hill, afternoon family movies and an evening bonfire for roasting marshmallows.
The hotel sells discount lift tickets to nearby Cranmore. If your kids are reluctant skiers, Cranmore also offers tubing. And for shopping Moms, North Conway is a huge outlet shopping destination.
The hotel is totally family-friendly and affordable too. And with lots of room configurations like loft rooms, alcove rooms and town homes, the Red Jacket Mountainview is a particularly good hotel for large families (like mine!) or for vacationing with extended family.