Learning to cope with travel disappointments
It’s not irresponsible or shallow to be upset about your derailed vacation plans. Don’t minimize the kids’ disappointment either, the experts say.
Traveling through the COVID-19 crisis
The coronavirus pandemic has derailed many upcoming family trips — everything from shipboard reunions to destination weddings to spring breaks. What to do?
The civilized route to ski country: The Winter Park Express
There is a better way to go skiing — every Friday and Saturday, January-March, Amtrak offers the “Winter Park Express” from Denver’s Union Station to a platform just a short hike from Winter Park’s ski lifts.
Need to be somewhere important? Go a day early
The ship was to leave port at 5 p.m. PST. We were supposed to arrive in San Diego on our morning flight at 10 a.m. PST. But we ended up getting re-routed to Sacramento
Taking advantage of Cyber Monday family travel deals
On Cyber Monday (Dec 2), you’ll find some of the best travel deals of the year, some you can use immediately and some for all next year
Taking the Kids RVing
The secret to this unusual road trip bliss: A 36-foot rented RV where the kids can be safely strapped in seatbelts but still able to play games at the table between them
On an RV trip or any trip, you always forget something you need
We toured part of Utah and Colorado in a new Winnebago Boldt that was equipped with most everything — and I did bring things we’ve used everyday
Families love their RVs – it’s all about togetherness and outdoors
“A hotel isn’t the same,” added Zach Dubey. “We get to be outside more,” cooking together, sitting around a fire. (Here, we rent a fire pit for $20 for our stay, plus wood.)
Arches and Canyonlands National Parks – Spectacular Utah attractions!
It’s easy to see why Arches National Park, just 5 miles north of Moab Utah, is the world’s largest concentration of natural sandstone arches — over 2,000 throughout the park’s more than 76,000 acres.
Make your family vacation even more enjoyable with non-stop flights
We’ve all been there. Long layovers, tired family members and expensive airport food. But there’s an easy fix to the boring and exhausting parts of air travel and it’s called FlightsFrom.com.