West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach needs 1 day: cooling off at Rapids Water Park, South Florida's largest water park, and touring the historic center of Palm Beach -separated by Lake Worth- with the Mar-a-Lago mansions and the luxury shops of Worth Avenue, the same afternoon. November-April avoids the humid heat and summer storms. It's expensive, especially on the Palm Beach side. It began as a service town for workers at the luxury hotels Henry Flagler built on Palm Beach island in the late 19th century, and today it's the county's most populous mainland city, with its own downtown very different from its exclusive island neighbor's profile.