The Florida Keys holidays

Road Trips in the US are almost a right of passage, including the iconic Route 66, and California's Highway 1, but the beach bums among you should fear not, as Florida is the perfect jumping off point for a quintessential and compact US road trip with a Caribbean twist, down in the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys boast glorious beaches, the USA's sport fishing capital, and fantastic scuba diving, following the 'shipwreck trail' and exploring the world's third largest living barrier reef. On the main 113 mangrove-and-sandbar islands the sun shines over deep green mangroves; long, gloriously soft mudflats and tidal bars; turquoise water and a population that gladly admits to being a little eccentric. Never more so than in Key West, best defined by its motto – One Human Family – an ideal perfectly suited to a place where anything goes and life is always a party (or at least a hungover day after).

The Florida Keys holiday ideas

A few suggestions to get the holiday planning process started

Our team of Americas experts are on hand to tailor-make the perfect family holiday to the Florida Keys, designed around your family's specific requirements. Original Travel have the keys to unlock the Keys, and all our holidays come with a full range of additional services designed to make travelling as a family as smooth as possible, from fast-track check-in and security at the airport, and lounge access even if you're flying economy. Then there are the fun packs designed by children's party people Sharky & George that we give to all three to ten-year olds and full of challenges and destination-specific quizzes to keep them entertained on the flight and longer drives. When you're in the Florida Keys themselves, you can always ring our clued-up local Concierge for advice on family-friendly restaurants and any last-minute changes of plan.

So, to the trip itself. In short, the Florida Keys with kids works a treat. We can arrange a fun family road trip from key to key, a week on one of the keys (Key Largo or Key West, most likely), or a combination of both, all with the best family-friendly accommodation, and fun family activities from snorkelling, sailing and swimming with dolphins to visiting a turtle hospital, seeing manatees and learning about the many shipwrecks - including Spanish galleons loaded with treasure - in the Florida Keys.

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