Karkle Camp

If you’re here for the golf, your first stop will be the National Golf Resort (15 minutes’ drive) for its challenging 18-hole course. However, there are other ways of keeping active: MadBay Wakepark Klaipėda (25 minutes) has obstacle courses for wakeboarders and kneeboarders, and there’s a floating assault course at Jump Park Palanga (20 minutes). Popular seaside Palanga (15 minutes) itself is known for its sandy beach, interesting amber museum set in a 19th-century mansion with landscaped gardens, summer weekend concerts in Birute Park and nightly performances at the musical fountain. Should your kids need any more entertainment, Dino Parkas Radailiai (20 minutes) offers up animatronic dinosaurs, fairground rides and mini-golf games. Gorgeous Klaipėda (20 minutes) has a beguiling old town, aquariums in the Lithuanian Sea Museum and a canal that’s popular with boaters, kayakers and anglers. From there, take a ferry across to the UNESCO-protected Curonian Spit (25 minutes) to see the ever-shifting dunes, hire a dinghy to go sailing or scare the kids with the evil-looking wooden sculptures at the Hill of Witches (an hour and 10 minutes).