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From the airport, take a taxi to the Melia Vacation Club Puerto Vallarta near Marina Vallarta. It has great childcare services and entertainment like a playroom with arcade games, hip hop classes, water balloon fights and arts and crafts. Fun for adults include tennis, the swimming pool, fitness club and excursions into town.
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Grab your swim suits and head for Aquaventuras Park to swim with the dolphins, zoom down water slides, try the zip line and float on a lazy river. About a 10-minute drive north of the airport, it can also be reached by public bus and has kid-friendly food in the restaurant and snack bars. Doors open at 10 am.
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In the late afternoon, stroll along the Malecón (boardwalk ) where you'll all be amazed and and delighted by the monumental sculptures, including a giant seashore, a unicorn, leaping dolphins and figures climbing up a pole high overhead.
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Wander down to Playa Los Muertos for an early dinner at that Puerto Vallarta institution Daiquiri Dick's.
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Watch the spectacular sunset as the kids dig into one of Daiquiri Dick's fabled desserts like key lime pie, coconut flan or brownie a la mode,
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Put the kids to bed and steal away for a romantic nightcap in the lobby bar and get ready for an all-day sail on a pirate's galleon, which includes a two-hour layover at a hidden cove, a pirate show, activities for kids and an open bar for the grown-up adventurers.
