Has anyone taken their kids to Vieques island off of Puerto Rico? What is there to do? Where did you stay?

We moored at Vieques for a half day last year and visited the awesome Bioluminescent Bay.

Apart from the bay, what I remember most about Vieques is the mosquitos.

www.biobay.com

Both things are great to know! Mosquitos and that the Bioluminescent Bay was awesome...Thanks.

The actual name of the biobay is Mosquito Bay. It is amazing. We did the kayak tour, but there's another one from a pontoon boat. It was far easier to get back in the kayaks than I thought it would be- I was expecting to have to fight and flop a few times, but everyone in our group made it back into their kayaks on the first try.

Other than that, there's not a lot to do there that you can't do on PR. They're supposed to have good beaches, but we were only there for one day and didn't rent a car (you do have to rent a car to get to all but one of the beaches).

I would strongly recommend you avoid the all day kayaking/snorkeling/biobay tour with Abe's. The "15 minutes" of paddling listed on their website was more like an hour and a half (to be fair, we did have strong winds- we looked like birds flapping in the breeze and not getting anywhere). The beach was ok, and paddling back into to the biobay was really cool. The mangrove maze was not cool to paddle through. At one point an oyster flipped off the trees into the leg of Tom's shorts. I got snapped in the head by a branch, and every last one of us- even the guide-got wedged in at one point.

Chrisgo, I wrote a trip report about Vieques awhile back. I'll try to find it and top it for you. But it's also on my blog with photos. Feel free to ask me any questions:
http://maggiwun.blogspot.com/2007/08...ques-with.html

My trip report from August 2007 seems to have disappeared, sorry.

Last March I spent a week in San Juan, and 2 nights on Vieques with my kids (8 & 10). The Biobay was phenomenal. Make sure you go into the water as it will sparkle like diamonds all around you.

Apart from the Biobay, the beaches are very calm, and very natural. Not what you see much anymore, as they were not developed at all. My husband and I loved it. The kids had just spent a week boogie boarding in the waves, so were not as impressed by the waveless beaches.

I would definitely go back, both to San Juan and Vieques.

By the way, no mosquitos when we went.

Your response was helpful! Thank you. I was wondering if the biobay is safe for kids? How deep is it?

Children and adults are provided with lifevests -- and no one is required to enter the water, of course.

The biobay is deeper than standing depth.