Traveling with children for a vacation is quite a different ball game from going for a holiday with friends or your spouse, especially after a road trip punctuated with umpteen stops at rest areas. Kids in the back seat can get restless, irritable, and noisy, making you wish that you could reach your destination in one hour. Flying to the Caymans for a holiday is a good option, with the added incentive of the lovely Seven Mile Beach. The Cayman Islands are warm and sunny all through the year and there are plenty of full-service resorts offering a wide range of activities for adults and children alike.

Staying at a full-service resort has a lot of advantages, particularly when you have little ones to take care of. With a choice of restaurants, these resorts offer several dining options so that children do not get bored. Le Café Soleil with its ice creams and pastries and the Tortuga Deli’s sandwiches and wraps were favorite haunts for our kids.

Another advantage of a full-service resort like the Hotel Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa in Grand Cayman, where we stayed, is that they have supervised activities for children, a kids pool, and lovely gardens. The concierge suggested several local attractions that we could visit with our children like Stingray city, the Turtle farm, and the Tortuga Rum Cake factory.

Birdwatching trips to Cayman Brac’s Parrot Reserve and Little Cayman’s Booby Pond Reserve were not really suitable for our kids but the Atlantis Submarine tour held them spellbound. What I liked most about this full-service resort is that they had the Hibiscus spa where I could relax with a massage and get some beauty treatments at the salon while the children frolicked in the pool under the watchful eyes of my husband. The next day it was my turn to keep an eye on them and relax by the pool while he went off for a day of golf with some friends.