Visiting the Creation Museum? Try These 7 Relaxing Places Nearby

After a day visiting the Creation Museum, the $27 million monument to the idea that God made the earth in six literal days, you can relax at these resorts within a short drive:

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1. Coco Key Water Resort: One of a chain, the Coco Key Water Resort creates a tropical paradise within a confined area. There’s a water park with slides, wave pools and lazy rivers, spas, scuba diving training, restaurants and rooms at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, though part of the property is being converted to a Red Lion hotel, according to the Daily Journal of Commerce.

2. Cliff View Resort: Located in Rogers, Kentucky, the Cliff View resort is a “luxury hilltop lodge with 14 man-made lakes stocked with fish. There’s a barbecue restaurant, picnic pavilion and emergency heliport.

3. Woodhouse Day Spa: Looking for something tranquil and transformational? Check out the Woodhouse Day Spa, part of a chain but locally owned in Cincinnati’s Olde Montgomery neighborhood.

4. Tuscany Spa and Salon: For a day spa of the more full-service kind, including getting your hair done, there’s Tuscana Spa and Salon in Symmes Township on the outskirts of Cincinnati.

5. Weller Haus Inn: Located in Bellevue, Kentucky, the Weller Haus Inn is a small, five-unit bed-and-breakfast. Each unique room boasts a two-person Jacuzzi and a fireplace, and is a short walk from downtown Bellevue.

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6. Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park: Located in Mount Olivet, Kentucky, the resort park offers a lodge with 32 rooms in a rustic setting at the site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War.

7. Belterra: For the full package -- hotel, resort, restaurants, spa and gambling -- there’s Belterra, just across the Ohio River in Florence, Indiana, or Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, just across the river off Interstate 275 Check out the golf and the big-name entertainers, too.

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