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The Bahamas pursues the family traveller aggressively and the larger hotels compete by providing facilities for children. Most offer free accomodation or greatly reduced rates for children staying in their parents' room, and will provide a babysitter, cots and baby food if you make an advance request. Several all-inclusive resorts cater specifically to families, offering a full range of activities and amenities for their young guests. Rental villas and apartments are also a good option for families. Most come fully staffed, allowing you to leave the children with the housekeeper.

Paradise Island, just offshore from Nassau, has great beaches or cruise to Blue Lagoon Island where movie Flipper was filmed. Kids can swim with trained dolphins in a protected lagoon. Toddlers can stand in the shallow lagoon where the dolphins will also let you touch them.

The endangered Bahama parrot is bred in captivity at Ardastra Gardens and Zoo and West Indian Flamingos are trained to stru their stuff on voice command.

Let the children loose in the Botanical Garden with its lush Fantasia section with hundreds of species of tropical plants plus lily ponds, grottoes and a waterfall fountain.