Beaches - Negril Resort & Spa

Beaches, Negril has 200 rooms and suites. Their basic room with two double beds is around 230 sq. ft. What sets this apart on our list are the five pools staffed by lifeguards. The resort also has fun pajama parties for the kids and lessons in sandcastle building. (Hey, where is the sign-up list for adults?) One of the funnest features is their true Japanese restaurant where the food is prepared tableside. Kids love this!

Parents - you get butler service if you're in any of the two-bedroom suites. Your butler will arrange private dinners and custom activities. Beaches, Negril also offers couples' spa services such as "Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Two in the Tub" (woo-hoo!), and all-adult beach volleyball.

If you're familiar with the Beaches' Caribbean Adventure with Sesame Street program, with those zany characters, you'll be happy to know the same program is here.

A trend that Beaches is in tune to is that of bringing children along on the wedding and honeymoon. Beaches appropriately calls this FamilyMoon and has packages for the family with free group portraits, T-shirts.

Kids can spend afternoons cooling off in the Pirate's Island water park with its 204-foot spiraling slide, their "too-awesome" Splash Deck, and my favorite, the 394-foot lazy-river ride.

Like our Turks & Caicos Beaches, Beaches, Negril offers an up-to-date video game room and kids activities based around themes. However, at Beaches, Negril, their Kids Kamp for kids 12 and under distinguishes itself from other resorts in the Beaches system by painstakingly working the cultural rhythm of Jamaica into kids activities. For example, Dance Class with Zoe focuses on calypso or reggae. Elmo becomes a storyteller of Jamaican legends.

Expect your little ones to be greeted by a kids' coordinator with Big Bird cookies and a drink!