DISCOVERY PARKS PAMBULA BEACH, N SW

The newly refurbished Koko-nut Kid’s Club at Parkroyal Penang Resort features a wide variety of activities and games for children to enjoy. Some of the facilities on offer include outdoor protected play areas, an indoor playground, a multi-media area where kids can watch films and videos, a separate toddlers’ room, complete with baby cot and soft toys, and babysitting services. There’s also an Art & Craft corner where creative children can take part in a range of interactive activities including mask making, leaf painting, stick puppet making, and face painting. An added bonus? The resort is only a short distance from Escape water park for kids – and big kids – which features spectacular water slides. panpacific.com.

Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts has recently introduced a new program, the Rangers’ Club, that aims to give children a fun, educational adventure as part of their holiday, teaching them about the natural world and giving them skills and knowledge that they can take home with them. Kids from 4 to 11 years old will be taught how to use their five senses to see, touch, hear, smell and taste their surroundings while learning all about the flora and fauna in the local environment, and earning stamps for their club “passports” as they complete the activities. The club’s mascot is Felly the Turtle, a green sea turtle born in 2004 at Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru in the Maldives. Rangers’ Club will be in all Banyan Tree resorts by January 2019. banyantree.com.