SUMMER FUN AT THE RESORTS
KSL Resorts also focus on fun for the whole family. Some of the resorts even have special check-in desks just for the kids.

The Chuck Cook Golf Academy at Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas, gets families together for summer golf schools that include video training, club fitting, and on-course playing lessons. The resort’s Kids Club showcases activities ranging from arts and crafts to miniature golf, indoor sport courts, and outdoor nature trails.

The venerable Hotel del Coronado near San Diego rightly bills itself as a “teen dream” destination, and its 18 miles of beachfront has won the Travel Channel’s award as “America’s Best Family Beach.” Families also go for biking tours, boogie boarding, and surfing.

Fresh from a $140 million renovation, La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, makes sure that kids feel a part of the family vacation by offering them their own welcome gift bag filled with toys and a VIP pass for free perks like sodas at the pool and toppings for their ice cream. Kids join in the fun at summer golf camps and weekend night camps that include pizza and movies — and there’s a kids’ fitness boot camp to work off all those calories.

Renowned for its golf and tennis, The Homestead in the Allegheny Mountains in Hot Springs, Virginia, also entertains families with wide-ranging activities such as its on-property bowling alley, billiards, movies, outdoor adventures, mountain biking, falconry, fly-fishing, and horse-drawn carriage rides.