Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Virginia Beach

We tested the family vacation waters this weekend and stayed one night on the beach in the Holiday Inn North Shore.

It is an amazingly family friendly hotel with amenities such as free on site child care during the day (4+, but we still enjoyed use of the play room), free movie screenings throughout the day in a casual setting (from Muppets starting off the A.M. through Iron Man in the evening), and 3 great pools, one indoor / 2 kid friendly with fun slides and such.  The rooms and the property in general are very clean and recently updated.

H enjoyed the pool, playing in the sand on the beach, the balcony, the play room, and looking for seashells early in the morning.

The kids managed amazingly well during the long drive down and the unfamiliar environment, even nighty-night time went smoothly!  Everyone had a great time and we'd love to return.  I wish I had known that they do fireworks (very loud fireworks) at 9, just when we were getting the kids down, then I would have let them stay up another half hour to step out on the beach and enjoy them!

View from our balcony, room 417 poolside.
H playing in the sand on Virginia Beach.

A tiny sand crab, can you see it?

The "Splash Kamp" play room, H loved following Tonka,
the resident tortoise, on her morning walk.

Blurry but you can just make out B & H shooting out of the water slide, yep our little girl is fearless, strangers were amazed by this.

 
The beach during our early morning sea shell hunt.
 
We enjoyed spotting several dolphins in the A.M. from our balcony.

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