Best Hotels with Activities in Cartagena de Indias

Cartagena de Indias pairs a walled colonial old town with a modern beach strip, so parents get two very different kinds of day within a short taxi ride of each other. Inside the walls, balconied streets around Bolivar Park and the Gold Museum stay shaded and stroller-walkable; along Bocagrande and Marbella, family hotels line up steps from the sand. Rafael Nunez International Airport sits close enough that transfers rarely eat into nap time, and the Rosario Islands make an easy boat day once the kids are old enough to sit still for the ride.