The new supervised children's activity center offers daily activities for children ages 4-12. Full-day and half-day programs are available at varying costs. The following schedule is a sample of a defined week:

Designed like a luxurious hacienda, with award-winning gardens, this resort is the most upscale on Aruba. Supervised activities for children age 3 to 12 include games and contests such as crab races and hula-hoop competitions. 

One of the best programs for kids in the southern Caribbean is found at this hotel set on the site of a 19th-century sugar plantation. There's a nursery, along with children's programs that encompass everything from lessons in Bajan culture to pool activities to computer games, even instruction in reggae. Family suites are available, and babysitting can be arranged at night.

Set amid lots of fast-food and family-style restaurants on the southwest coast, this family-oriented hotel offers one- and two-bedroom suites. Each unit has a kitchen, so you can cook for yourself and save money. The beach is a few steps away, and the ambience is informal. If you bring the kids, they'll have plenty of playmates.

Safe and serene, Grand Cayman Island, with its 11km (7-mile) sandy beach, seems designed for families with children. No one coddles children as much as the Hyatt people, who offer not only babysitting but also Camp Hyatt, with an activity-filled agenda, for children age 3 to 12.

Rising on stilts, these wooden cottages with private decks add a sense of adventure to a beach vacation. Surrounded by tropical vegetation, families are only steps from the beach. Features for kids include a playground, computer games, arts and crafts lessons, and even storytelling sessions. Children under age 16 stay free if they share a room with their parents.

FDR gives you a suite with its own kitchen, and a "Vacation Nanny" whose duties include babysitting. Neither its beach nor its pool is the most appealing on Jamaica, but the price is right, and the babysitting is part of the all-inclusive price. Programs for children include dress-up parties, donkey rides, basketball, tennis, and snorkeling.

This is the best place for kids in all of Puerto Rico. The big attraction is a water playground that contains the world's longest freshwater swimming pool: It's a 533m (1,776-ft.) fantasy pool with 5 different depths, 5 interconnected free-form pools, and 14 waterfalls with tropical landscaping. As if that weren't enough, Hyatt also offers Camp Hyatt, a day camp for kids age 3 to 12. 

Children aren't forgotten amid the glamour and hoopla of this fabulous resort. Camp Coquí provides day care daily from 9am to 3pm for children age 3 to 12, at a price of $40 per child per day. Activities include fishing, sailing, arts and crafts, and nature treks. Babysitting services are available, and children age 15 and under stay free in a room with their parents. 

The staff of the Kids for All Seasons day camp are kindly, matronly souls who work well with children. During the adult cocktail hour, when parents might opt for a romantic sundowner, kids attend a supervised children's hour that resembles a really good birthday bash. Other kid-friendly activities include tennis lessons, water sports, and storytelling.

Posh, upscale, and offering extremely good service, this hotel is a longtime favorite that occupies a 96-hectare (240-acre) former sugar estate. Its kids' programs (ages 2-12) include a half-day sailing excursion to Buck Island Reef and guided nature walks that let kids touch, smell, and taste tropical fruit.