Photos capture unforgettable memories and quality is important. Hiring a photographer on your vacation can give you the greatest souvenir of all. While you may think it’s out of your budget, you might be surprised to find that vacation...
Utter Failure and Complete Success at Disney World
We’ve been to Disney just once in Hong Kong and consider ourselves novices at this type of family vacation. However, we found an opportunity to take the family and my in-laws to Walt Disney World and did it completely...
Getting to Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
We ended our summer of slow travel through Asia in Vietnam. One of my long time “Bucket List” destinations, my family was excited to visit the lush and beautiful Ha Long Bay. We weren’t let down. Getting There We flew in...
Southwest Companion Pass Is On The Way
My husband has held the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass before and we missed it once it expired. When the opportunity came up to get it again early in the year, I jumped at the chance. Previous Experience A few...
Seven Travel Lessons Learned in 2017
The end of the year and beginning of the next is the perfect time to reflect on what’s transpired in 2017 and how to apply those learnings to 2018. Here are the lessons I’ve learned in the past year...
Vacation Roulette: Life Is Better Without Plans
We decided to play Vacation Roulette 2017 and didn’t plan a trip until a week prior to departure. We decided to try a new country, Panama, a new hotel chain, Waldorf-Astoria, and a new airline home for myself and...
Vacation Roulette: We’re Going to Panama!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about playing vacation roulette and just going wherever was available or nothing at all as opposed to previous years with heavily-planned trips far from home. We shopped a few options but none...
Anti-Review: Valeto Carry-on High chair? What?
As a frequent traveler and occasional blogger I am always on the hunt for products that could make our lives easier. When products come recommended by Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes and key members of various traveling mom Facebook groups...
Playing Vacation Roulette for Christmas Abroad
Usually, we have a trip planned for our Christmas holiday well in advance but this year, we hesitated. I am not sure if it was due to Kyle’s extreme influx in work travel, our constant time away from home...
Helping a Toddler Beat Jet Lag
Jet lag is hard enough on adults, but children have it the worst. They don’t understand why they are tired, awake and may want to fight it but don’t have the strength. There are some easy ways to avoid...
Going Back to Manchester, England
As most Americans are preparing to stuff a turkey and then stuff themselves, we are preparing for a trip back to one of our favorite cities, Manchester, England. We booked a great sale out of Toronto on Air Transat...
Reader Questions on Family Trips to Asia
A reader recently reached out to ask some questions about traveling around Asia with a small child. Since I have encountered a number of these issues in my own experience and questions like my reader’s remain, I thought it...
Trending the Web in Family Travel
Often I am asked what I am following and finding in the travel space. Here are a few trending stories, travel deals and “follow-worthy” social media accounts circling the web in family travel. Newsworthy Have you heard about the...
Language Lessons Connect Children to Travel
Benefits to Learning a Language at an Early Age Studies show it is easier to become fluent in a second language during childhood rather than waiting until adulthood. Children have a lesser tendency to correct themselves and an ease...
Review: Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Tour – Hilo
Helicopter tours of the tropical Hawaiian islands is one of those once-in-a-lifetime things visitors do if they have the chance. During our trip to the big island of Hawaii, we had a chance to try Blue Hawaiian Helicopter tour...
The Big Island: Outside the Resort
My sister and her family are planning a trip to Hawaii next year and as we offer our recommendations and reminisce about our trip to the Big Island last October, I wanted to share this list. Here are a...
Holiday Nanny: Not Just for the Rich
While traveling with a nanny may seem like something reserved for the rich and famous, it’s not solely for the extremely wealthy. In fact, almost everyone can afford some form of a travel companion, but should you? What Are...
We Flew Frontier: It Was Great!
Occasionally, there are times where traditional hub-and-spoke flag carriers just don’t make sense. While Southwest offers lots of direct flights in point-to-point service from many airports throughout the US, Spirit, Frontier, and JetBlue have also added lots of options...
Benefits of Slow Travel With Children
As I previously covered, I spent the better part of six weeks in Asia with my daughter, sister and her boyfriend. There have been a lot of questions as to why we went for such an extended period of...
Should You Bring the Car Seat?
Traveling with smaller children brings added challenges and baggage. People ask, “can you rent a car seat without a car?” I would never suggest compromising safety for convenience, so here is how I determine when to rent it, when...
