Our family visited Mexico and took a real vacation for the first time ever last week. We booked an all-inclusive resort which was only about the price of any downtown hotel in the states but included lots of entertainment, all the food and drinks you could want, and several pools, an oceanside jacuzzi, large inflatable to play on out in the ocean, etc. etc.

They also had free ocean activities like snorkeling, Hobie craft rides, kayaking, and windsurfing (assuming you know how to do it). There are also five restaurants some of which are more formal and some are very informal for the kids. We made the mistake of taking all the kids to a more formal restaurant one night and although the staff was very nice I am sure we annoyed some people around us.

I took our older daughter (3) later one night to one of the more formal restaurants and she was a perfect dinner companion actually, it was just when we had all the kids together (1 & 2 years old) that it was very difficult. Anyway, since we enjoyed it so much we’d like to go back again in March!