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FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT ON THE COTE d'AZURE
Kids on the Riviera - Dolphins and Dauphins

Parlez vous Delphine? Do Dolphins speak French? So, you’re going to the French Riviera with the family. But not sure what there is to do with the kids if you don’t want tender young minds exposed on the topless beaches of St. Tropez? Or they’ve already ‘seen one bare breast seen ‘em all’ and are totally bored with the sea and old musty art museums. Easily accessible by train in Antibes, France’s Marineland lies halfway between Nice and Cannes. The “Meeting the Dolphins” show has been running since 2005 for up close and personal encounters with the bottle-nosed sea creatures. The Great Adventure of Pirates and Killer-Whales is a 30 foot deep picture window pool where the Orca whales cavort with their trainers underneathy an above water pirate show. Like all good aquatic amusement parks there is the shark tube, Piranha exhibit, miniature golf with a Jules Verne adventure theme, aquariums, a Wild West theme park with train rides and gun-slinger shows, and the Aquasplash artificial wave and wild water slides swimming park, when the calm Mediterranian just isn’t enough.

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If walking-the-plank over killer whales isn’t enough of pirates on the Mediterranian, the Azure Adventure Labyrinthe is a pirate themed playland for kids, located in Villeneuve-Loubet, 4 miles from the Nice Cote d’Azure airport (See Three Hotel Bargains In Nice). A maze with a series of games designed to explore the history and themes of pirates and corsairs, divided into three levels of play activities for different age groups.

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And half-way between Cannes and St. Tropez, the Zoological Park at Frejus Ville near St. Rafael is a zoo and animal preserve dedicated to wildlife preservation which can be visited on foot like a traditional zoo or driven through in the car. The Labyrinthe and Zoo Parc close at sundown, but the Marineland of the Azure Coast offers special evening shows. Marineland is closed for the month of March and its water slide park is only open from June to September. The Labyrinthe operates from mid-April to mid-November and the animal park has varying opening times year-round except December. © Bargain Travel Europe

Web Info
www.marineland.fr
www.labyrinthe.com
www.zoo-frejus.com

For Family Tours of Europe see:
INTREPID FAMILY TRAVEL: Go ahead, take the kids, too

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