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  • Families love concierge level for informality
    Destinations | Families & Groups | Food and Dining | Lodging | Snow Vacations | Travel Diaries

    Families love concierge level for informality

    ByEileen Ogintz February 1, 2015July 15, 2021

    “I love it here,” said Martha Kramer, enjoying an early dinner with her two kids, including one with special needs. She could have gone to the first rate restaurant downstairs Manzanita with her husband and his business colleagues, she said, “But this is more relaxing.”

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  • At Northstar CA, moms get pampered with special ski progam
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    At Northstar CA, moms get pampered with special ski progam

    ByEileen Ogintz January 30, 2015July 15, 2021

    This program at $295 is less than an all day private lesson. The women are grouped according to their ability, no more to four to a group. They might end up with a private coach all day. The day includes a lift ticket, the latest demo equipment and at the end of the day, champagne and canapés during a “tech talk” about equipment. Considering that a lift ticket is over $100 and demo equipment $70, this is a bargain.

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  • Winter is a great time for a family visit to a zoo or aquarium
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    Winter is a great time for a family visit to a zoo or aquarium

    ByEileen Ogintz January 29, 2015July 10, 2021

    The human kiddos laugh and giggle at the antics of the animals all day at the St. Louis Zoo. It’s one of three major free zoos left in the country along with the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

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  • Audiences of all ages love the Blue Man Group
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    Audiences of all ages love the Blue Man Group

    ByEileen Ogintz January 28, 2015July 8, 2021

    It all started nearly 25 years ago, when three college-friends — Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink — developed a bald and blue character they called Blue Man (to evoke the word Human), who delighted audiences at this small theater

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  • Pack the family and check the cold bleak winter at the gate
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    Pack the family and check the cold bleak winter at the gate

    ByEileen Ogintz January 26, 2015July 10, 2021

    The tropical weather and scenery, and numerous beaches are the perfect backdrop for Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa in Vieux Fort on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

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  • Fun in the snow at YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch in Colorado
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    Fun in the snow at YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch in Colorado

    ByEileen Ogintz January 24, 2015July 15, 2021

    You’ll certainly be warmly greeted at the YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch, and many of the welcomes will come in the way of furry kisses by the adorable and powerful Snow Mountain Ranch dog sled team.

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  • Fun off the slopes: learning to build a snow sculpture in the mountains
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    Fun off the slopes: learning to build a snow sculpture in the mountains

    ByEileen Ogintz January 22, 2015July 10, 2021

    Mountain resorts across the country offer an ever-growing array of off-the-slopes activities where the kids — and you — can get inspired to build your own sculpture either at home or near where you are vacationing in mountain country

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  • At the 9/11 Memorial Museum with unique teen guides
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    At the 9/11 Memorial Museum with unique teen guides

    ByEileen Ogintz January 21, 2015July 8, 2021

    David Rothblatt has been a New Yorker all his life but his sole memory of 9/11 was being with his mom as she searched for a store to buy milk. Fia adds that next year’s high school freshmen will have been born after 9/11. “Kids need to know even if it is hard,” she and David agreed.

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  • The New York Met and Madame Tussauds with teens
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    The New York Met and Madame Tussauds with teens

    ByEileen Ogintz January 20, 2015July 8, 2021

    If only the Metropolitan Museum of Art had life-sized wax figures of Degas, Monet and Picasso. I’m joking, of course, but I was thinking that watching how much fun our group of high schoolers was having at MME Tussauds NYC.

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  • A taste of Olde England and its literati in St. Louis, MO
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    A taste of Olde England and its literati in St. Louis, MO

    ByEileen Ogintz January 19, 2015July 9, 2021

    We’re not in England though it feels like it. We’re in suburban St. Louis at the locally owned Cheshire, celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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  • Teaching the kids about civil rights at our national monuments
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    Teaching the kids about civil rights at our national monuments

    ByEileen Ogintz January 15, 2015July 15, 2021

    If you want to expand on what the kids are learning in school, then head to a national park. That’s right. There are many national historic sites that figured into the fight against slavery and the civil rights movement and are ideal for out-of-the-classroom learning opportunities, especially when so many are offering special activities this month.

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  • In Northern Italy, a little-known gem of history and culture: Mantua
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    In Northern Italy, a little-known gem of history and culture: Mantua

    ByEileen Ogintz January 8, 2015June 28, 2023

    You won’t find that many tourists here, but you will find the quintessential Italian experience — restaurants spilling out onto cobblestoned piazzas, locals starting their morning with a cafe, the weekly market that takes over the entire Piazza Sordello

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  • Kid tips for hitting the slopes for Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month
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    Kid tips for hitting the slopes for Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month

    ByEileen Ogintz January 1, 2015July 15, 2021

    If you are a newbie, there is no better time than January, the nationally designated Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month to hit the Colorado slopes.

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  • To Jumby Bay, Antigua: A unique all-inclusive resort in the
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    To Jumby Bay, Antigua: A unique all-inclusive resort in the

    ByEileen Ogintz December 25, 2014July 15, 2021

    Many families have a special vacation spot — a snow sports resort, a lake where the kids caught their first fish, a beach where they build giant sand castles. Jumby Bay is one of them.

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    The Kids Guides, city-by-city, week by week: Orlando

    ByEileen Ogintz December 25, 2014July 5, 2021

    Featured on ABCNews.com: The Kids Guide to Boston

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    The Kids Guides, city-by-city, week by week: Orlando

    ByEileen Ogintz December 25, 2014July 5, 2021

    Featured on ABCNews.com: The Kids Guide to Boston

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  • Eileen quoted in NY Times Travel article
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    Eileen quoted in NY Times Travel article

    ByEileen Ogintz December 23, 2014July 16, 2021

    Eileen is quoted in New York Times Travel article: “Pint-Size Activities With an Adult Twist”

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  • Soaking up the family holiday spirit at a theme park
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    Soaking up the family holiday spirit at a theme park

    ByEileen Ogintz December 18, 2014July 15, 2021

    Across the country, theme parks are adding new and bigger holiday attractions every year, enticing more and more families to come through the gates, glad to forsake holiday shopping and cooking for a few hours, even though it can be a costly afternoon or evening.

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  • Not just any sandy beach, Jumby Ban is a private island family paradise
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    Not just any sandy beach, Jumby Ban is a private island family paradise

    ByEileen Ogintz December 18, 2014July 10, 2021

    Karin Allyn is celebrating a birthday on a beautiful stretch of white sand beach under a thatched umbrella with her children and grandchildren. But not just any beach—she’s at Jumby Bay

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  • Fish fit for a king, or a snorkeler, at Jumby Bay, Antigua
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    Fish fit for a king, or a snorkeler, at Jumby Bay, Antigua

    ByEileen Ogintz December 17, 2014July 10, 2021

    We’re at Jumby Bay on its own island just off the coast of Antigua–an all inclusive where the food isn’t like any other all inclusive I’ve seen—of course this is one of the most exclusive resorts in the Caribbean.

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