Florida: Ponte Vedra Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach Resorts - A Classic Beach Vacation Spot for Families.  Stay on the beach, relax unwind, have fun and share the Ponte Vedra experience with your family. The staff members specialize in creating the ideal family vacation atmosphere so you can make memories that will last a lifetime.

Here’s the scoop. Just south of Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach Resorts is a combination of two unique properties Ponte Vedra Inn and Club plus Ponte Vedra Lodge. The two award-winning resorts each maintain the industry's highest standards of hospitality. They have an expertly trained staff of more than 700 each sharing one common goal - to provide an extraordinary level of personalized service. For seven decades, these standards have become synonymous with the Ponte Vedra experience.

Pillow spots: The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club offers 250 elegantly appointed, oversized sleeping rooms including 33 suites. The award-winning accommodations are located in ten Florida-style low-rise buildings with most being ocean-front rooms.  The Lodge & Club features 66 elegantly appointed, oversized sleeping rooms including 24 suites each overlooking the beach and Atlantic Ocean and all featuring oceanfront patios or balconies.

Activities for families: The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club boasts four pools guaranteeing a splashing good time for all. Families will enjoy a large, multi-purpose pool featuring a youth-friendly water depth. The Lodge features two heated pools for guests to enjoy—one for adults overlooking the ocean and an Olympic-sized pool, located at the fitness center. The beach offers oodles of ways to spend time together from shell hunting and sand castle building  to ocean swimming, body surfing, and sailing. Need to know: Beach chairs, umbrellas, cabanas, ocean kayaks, sailing catamarans, bicycles, boogie boards, surf boards, and many beach games are conveniently available for rent.

Fun away from the beach. On dry land there are ample pathways well suited for bike riding. Deep sea fishing may be arranged, early morning beach fishing is popular and for those who sleep in there’s always the option to borrow fishing gear and bait and try your luck from grassy banks of local water spots. Boating and kayaking are always options and horseback riding may be arranged at a nearby equestrian center. The fitness centers at each resort offer plenty of  complimentary group classes each week and guest have access to treadmills, elliptical cross trainers, Stairmasters, a variety of bicycles, rowing machines, Cybex selectorized resistance equipment and free weights.  

Go for the golf.  Just steps from the ocean, the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club offers two picturesque 18-hole courses, each with its own distinct seaside links challenges. Just 1.5 miles away at the The Lodge & Club, guests may take full advantage of both the Ocean Course and the Lagoon Course.  Lodge & Club guests also enjoy playing privileges to the internationally renowned TPC Stadium Course as well as the challenging Valley Course.

Tennis anyone? Cradled between green fairway and blue Atlantic, Ponte Vedra's Racquet Club is the "#1 Tennis Resort on the East Coast" today (Tennis Magazine). Being the best means you’ll find a full complement of year-round resort activities, instructional programs, and packages continue to attract tennis enthusiasts.

Activities for kids only. Throughout the year, they conduct a variety of organized activities for children including: dinner clubs, movies, storytelling, arts and crafts, etiquette class, organized games, and pizza parties. The children's playground at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club offers a full complement of outdoor play equipment including swing, slide, hanging rings as well as a "climb aboard and explore" play boat. Youngsters staying at The lodge have their own playground. Need to know: From June through August take advantage of the daily youth camp for children 4-12 years old.

Location on the planet: The resorts are located along the Atlantic Coast midpoint between Jacksonville and historic St. Augustine. Ponte Vedra Inn and Club 200 Ponte Vedra Blvd. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082. Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club 607 Ponte Vedra Blvd, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082.

Make it happen. Ponte Vedra Inn and Club (904) 285-1111 and Ponte Vedra Lodge and Club (904) 273- 9500 or  www.pontevedra.com
 
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