Not every vacation experience is a family friendly one, but when it comes time to start planning your Memorial Day getaway, we are sure this is one holiday that you prefer to be one that the entire family will enjoy, making a South Padre Island vacation exactly what you need. Offering pristine beaches, fireworks displays, and all the comforts of home in our Franke Rentals holiday hideaways, we can promise this Memorial Day will be one to remember. This guide to the family friendly holiday activities you can enjoy during your South Padre Island Memorial Day weekend adventures will ensure that no family shenanigan is left undiscovered!
Isla Blanca Park, 33174 State Park Road 100
Honestly, you could spend your entire three-day weekend at Isla Blanca Park and not feel like you were cheated out of any family adventures! Offering access to one of the top beaches in the state of Texas, picnic pavilions, visitors can spend their day relaxing on white sands, or they can choose to set their adventurous side free, renting jet skis, parasailing, or even engaging in snorkeling or diving trips.
No adventure is too big or too small at Isla Blanca Park, and although we do hope you venture out a little further, we do know you will have a blast during your time here. Don’t forget the most family-friendly adventure of all, building sandcastles with your kiddos and if you aren’t sure of your skills, Sandcastle Building Lessons offers exactly what their name implies.
KIC’s Ice Cream, 2500 Padre Boulevard Unit 2
Memorial Day is, and always has been, considered the kickoff to summer, and what better way to enjoy a warm summer day than with ice cream? KIC’s Ice Cream offers a prime location just off the beach, and although you can’t go wrong with a scoop or two of any of their 16 flavors, their specialty sundaes, shakes, and mores will make your taste buds stand up and cheer! Especially popular right now is their Peanut Butter Lovers Layered Sundae, made with two scoops of their happy tracks ice cream, and layers of Butterfinger pieces and Reece’s Pieces then topped with whipped cream!
Gravity Park, 106 W Marlin Street
Remember playing miniature golf with your parents when you were a child? In the summer months they would head over after dinner, letting you and your siblings stay up late as you cheated, cried, got lucky, and walked from hole to hole, learning all kinds of life lessons you never knew you were learning. Well, today you can recreate that experience with your own growing family with a visit to Gravity Park, offering miniature golf and so much more!
Go Kart Roller Coaster, Children’s Go Karts, a 60-foot Ferris wheel, and two really unique “rides” the Rocket which is the tallest reverse-bungie in the world and Skycoaster, a giant swing from which you can enjoy the most stunning of views! Also offering arcade games, a climbing wall, and a trampoline ride, this exciting park appeals to children aged 2 to 92.
Dirty Al’s, 33396 State Park Road 100
Dining out while on vacation can be the best part of your experience, but when traveling with children it can also be a nightmare of epic proportions. It’s not your fault as a parent or your kid’s fault as a child, but really just a thing of nature; kids aren’t always mature enough to be on good behavior at restaurants, but fortunately, no one at Dirty Al’s will care! Offering a very reasonably priced seafood menu that even the pickiest of eaters will fall in love with, harbor views will make this casual restaurant feel romantic and slightly edgy.
Memorial Day Fireworks, 211 Whiting Street, May 25
Memorial Day falls on May 26th this year, but the fireworks extravaganza will be on Sunday, May 25th, not that anyone will mind. Costing nothing and starting at 9:15, the best sites to view the colorful sky explosions may be from any of the restaurants found in the Entertainment District. It’s impossible for the entire family not to fall in love with the colorful displays, so be sure to pencil this warm and family friendly adventure into your itinerary!
Chilling in Your Franke Rentals Holiday Hideaway
The happiest family friendly activities may just be the ones you enjoy while chilling in your Franke Rentals holiday hideaways, especially if you choose a beachfront escape. Divide your time between beach and pool (many of our beachfront homes also offer swimming pools and hot tubs because less is never more in South Padre Island), playing board games, or simply relaxing on patios with mojitos in hand as you watch the sun set over the sea. Reserve your favorite South Padre Island Memorial Day retreat today!
The holiday photos you take today will be the memories you look back on with quiet joy when your family doesn’t quite look the same as it did during your South Padre Island vacation and stay in our Franke Rentals holiday hideaways. Children grow up and move into their own home, grandchildren join the family, and although all that is wonderful, you may find yourself missing the days when it was just your nuclear family, parents, kids, and the family dog and when your journey brings you to our Island home, your photos can be fantastic. All you need to do is follow this guide on where you can take the best family Christmas photos on South Padre Island, making memories with each photo taken!
The Holiday Sandcastle Village, W Ling Street
This cool gallery of sand sculptures may be the coolest thing to see during your stay on South Padre Island and at the holidays it is even cooler. Open every day of the year and featuring an ever changing selection of sand sculptures created by the most talented sculptors in the world, you won’t be able to help but want to smile your cheesiest grins as you and your family pose in front of the creations. At Christmas through New Year’s they also offer a holiday light show, giving families a fun way to celebrate and make even more memories that you will never want to forget. And because holiday pictures can be taken during any holiday, why not consider a return visit on Valentine’s Day to see what has changed?
South Padre Island Welcome Sign
If you aren’t the type to label your photos you may have noticed that it is near impossible to remember the location of where the family photos were taken after a few years, but when you pose in front of the colorful South Padre Island Welcome Sign, that will never be a problem. What could be a normal garden wall made from terra cotta colored garden blocks becomes the backdrop of the moment, offering beach umbrellas in shades of blue, pink, and yellow shading the letters that read out South Padre Island, Texas, and the green foliage, including palm trees swaying in the sea breezes will add more color to the picture, just as our homes add comfortable adventures to your exciting island escape.
South Padre Island Convention Center Beach Chairs
Matching the colors of the umbrellas on the welcome sign, three Adirondack beach chairs will take the annual holiday family photo to the next level of whimsical, as these chairs aren’t your standard beach chairs. Supersized so that most families can squeeze onto one, they serve as a magical backdrop to your family photos, and if your family is a larger one, never fear, there will be plenty of room to climb on all three; pets are welcome, too, so if you are staying in one of our pet friendly sanctuaries, you can take a true family photo on these giant chairs.
Anywhere Along the Sea Turtle Art Trail
The charm and friendliness of sea turtles may make you wish you could have one as a pet, but they are an endangered species and but that’s ok; on South Padre Island, the Sea Turtle Art Trail allows you to get close to the whimsical creatures, without endangering the real ones even further. Also making a colorful and unique backdrop to your holiday family photos, our visitor’s center, located at 321 Padre Boulevard, provides a map of the trail, so you can easily find your way to your favorite family photo spot.
South Padre Island Convention Center Orcas Off the Gulf of Mexico
Photo opportunities abound on SPI and the giant mural of Orcas swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on the South Padre Island Convention Center will add magic to your family photo. The blue of sea and sky and the black and white of the giant orcas will shine even brighter when taken at sunset when the sky lights up with a fiery beauty and we can promise, your already good-looking family will never look more beautiful than they do when posing in front of the frolicking whales.
Traditional Beauty
Of course, your favorite photos may be the more traditional ones you take at home in your Franke Rentals holiday hideaway. Don matching pajamas and pose along the railing of your condo balcony that overlooks the sea, take many candid shots of your children tearing open the gifts you stacked under a tree in the living room, capturing the sheer joy in their happy faces and knowing when you catch “the money shot” the one photo that will grace NEXT year’s family Christmas card. Reserve your favorite escape today and explore all the places your family photos will look best!
Enjoy Beach Park at Isla Blanca
It’s summertime and you know what that means! It’s time to grab you swim suit and get ready to enjoy a fun-filled day as you explore Beach Park at Isla Blanca. Enjoy 25 water rides and slides, along with a relaxing lazy river where you can soak up the sun. If you’re bringing the kids along, don’t worry, this exciting water park offers an interactive water play structure and plenty of activities for them to enjoy. Warm or cold outside, enjoy our climate-controlled indoor park for a fraction of the cost of the summer season ticket. This makes for one of the most unique South Padre Island winter activities around.
Have an Unforgettable South Padre Island Vacation
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Crossing the bridge onto the Island you will turn left, north, and drive through the City of South Padre Island on Park Road 100. Keep driving 10 miles from the bridge till you come to the end of PR 100 and you will have found us. It’s worth the trip if you’re looking for family attractions in South Padre Island, TX. We’re out here by our lonesome and we love it!
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Don’t forget to check out our amazing vacation rentals here at SPI! Franke Rentals offers you a wide variety of condos full of modern amenities for you and your family granting the ultimate comfort experience and making your stay here in SPI an unforgettable experience! Book with us now!