Coco Key Water Resort is an indoor water park located adjacent to a hotel. You can visit for the day, or plan an overnight stay. Although somewhat on the higher end of an entrance fee for the Fitchburg area, it is worth the money to at least experience this park one time. Who knows, you may love it and want to buy a year round pass!

There are plenty of areas to sit and relax while the children swim and/or frollick in the splash playground structure. Kids can wear life vests that are free to use, or not if they are comfortable enough with swimming and water. The place itself is kept clean and relatively comfortable for families. Be aware that it is humid inside, so dress lightly, and don't be afraid to get wet.

There are bathrooms, changing areas, tables, chairs, loungechairs, and walking paths around the whole indoor arena. Plenty of lifeguards patrol the pools and playgrounds, so you can feel rest assured they are looking out for everyone's safety.

You can bring your own food/snacks and drinks, or you can take advantage of the food vendors they have there. (Pizza Hut...) There is also a small arcade with video games and skeeball that you have to pass through on your way to the water park, so be aware that your children might want to play these too. You can purchase tokens from the attendant. The kids earn tickets and can cash them in for prizes like Chuck E Cheese.

If you don't like crowds, plan your visits around vacations and school breaks. It can get quite busy when the kids in the area aren't in school! Otherwise, have a great time!

Santa's Village in Jefferson, NH is wonderful! It is clean, extra cute, and lots of fun! it is about 1 hour from Storyland in Glen, NH. Definately worth the drive up, which is very scenic. Your children will have tons of fun on the rides, get cooled off at the water park, and enjoy the atmosphere. If the kids are 48 inches, they will be able to ride by themselves. Most of the rides are perfectly OK for a child to be on their own. My husband rode the ferris wheel, the bumper cars, the log flume ride, and the rollar coaster with the kids. Even the rollar coaster would be OK for the kids to ride without us, but just in case.........
When you first get in the park, the children can get a card from the 'ELF University' and stamp it all through the park. There are little elf statues with different letters of the alphabet on them, the kids get their stamps and at the end of the day, turn it in for a diploma and small trinket. The day we were there, our choice was a magnet or a license plate for their bike. Even though when we were there, it rained for a short time in the afternoon, the kids still wanted to play in the water park. There are lots of chairs and recliners for the adults to sit on, as well as large umbrellas to cover you up from rain or too much sun. They have changing rooms, bathrooms all over, and little snack and drink stations everywhere. As in any amusement park, the drinks and snacks are priced high, but you can certainly brink in your own stuff for the day. We had lots of snacks, but opted to buy drinks when we wanted them. You can buy a drink cup, and have it refilled through the day. Pay one price, then refill it whenever you want.
I highly suggest visiting Santa's Village if you are going to be in the area. It was well worth the money.

Here's a great beach, with restrooms, changing areas, and outdoor hoses to wash off. Snack bar and lifeguards too.

Lots of parking, but you will pay at least $10, maybe $15. However, if you are a late day beach family, like we tend to be, after 4:30 you park for free!

Worthwhile visit, not only for the clean sandy beaches, but expansive shoreline and beautiful ocean waters.

Katie's located in Hyannis has some really great flavors. They make ice cream on the premises daily, and you can really taste the deliciousness in every cone or dish.

They offer over 40 flavors of creamy ice cream, low-fat yogurts, soft serve (up to 24 flavors), non-fat yogurt, fruit smoothies, frozen drinks, no-sugar added ice cream and smoothies, sorbets, sherberts, gelato and non-dairy soy ice cream.

Katie's is located right in the center of downtown, where all the shops, and various forms of entertainment happen to be. You can sit on thier deck and people watch, or casually walk along on the sidewalks.

When we are in Hyannis, we make a point to stop at Katie's.

Chapin Beach is located in Dennis, Ma, on the bay side of Cape Cod. The parking lot is small, and you will need to arrive early, at least by 9:30/10am. This seems to be the case with a lot of the beaches on the Cape, and probably even earlier than that!
When we first arrived, it was high tide, and difficult to navigate in the water. You absolutely need to have water shoes or flip flops for this beach. There are LOTS of rocks of all sizes at the edge of the sand. There is a beach to set up all your gear, and for the kids to play....... The spectacular part of this beach, and probably one or two beaches near by, is as the tide goes out, you can see large sand bars and beautiful water. The water between the beach and the sand bars is not very deep, and if you are up for a walk in the water, trek over. It is gorgeous! The water was warm, clean, and gentle. I felt like I was in the Carribean! As the tide continues to go out, the space between the sand bars and the rocky areas becomes a haven for small sealife to crawl the rocks, and for children to explore. Needless to say, this area then loses the water, and the rocks are exposed. If you want to swim, you'll need to walk out to the sand bars until the tide starts to come in again.
I encourage families to either have an inflatable boat/raft, so you can float some chairs or other things over with you. If not, just go with nothing but your bathing suit and water shoes. this is what we did, and we just laid in the water and floated on our backs until we were ready to walk back to all our stuff on the beach.
It would probably be very difficult with an infant or small toddler. I did see a few people with small children floating with them with a swimming tube of some sort, but keep in mind when you walk back to your belongings, if the tide is still out, you will need to carry the baby back. Our beach neighbors had a 7 month old and a 3 year old, and they decided to make the trek across to the sand bars.
My 5 year old boys did not have any difficulty, and were able to touch the bottom at all times.
If I was rating this for just adults, I give it a 5, but since it can be tough for really small kids, I rated it a 4.
They have one lifeguard on duty, and one port-O potty.