By Tom Williams

When Samantha Haring first arrived at Marriott’s Marco Island Beach Resort she was only three years old. Her parents, Gene and Lisa, were living in the Chicago suburbs and working as marketing consultants and graphic artists in the commercial coffee business.
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Resort offers a host of teen-friendly activities

By Michael Coleman

It’s a teen’s life, after all.

Teen-specific events and activities abound at the Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort year-round.

Nestled in the middle of Marco Island’s three-and-a-half mile crescent-shaped, white-sand beach, the resort takes full advantage of mother nature’s canvass and the Gulf of Mexico to offer teen sailing lessons, parasailing and waverunner rentals, additional water sports, sand sculpting programs and volleyball tournaments.
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