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  • Eileen’s Kids Guides featured on ABCNews.com
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    Eileen’s Kids Guides featured on ABCNews.com

    ByEileen Ogintz February 10, 2015July 16, 2021

    Eileen’s series of Kids Guides to great American cities was featured on ABCNews.com.

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  • Marriott Vacation Club Opens the World for Traveling Families
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    Marriott Vacation Club Opens the World for Traveling Families

    ByEileen Ogintz February 10, 2015July 15, 2021

    Maybe you should check out Marriott Vacation Club. Backed by the Marriott name and celebrating its 30th anniversary, it’s a far cry from those old school timeshares

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  • Eileen talks spring break ideas on Rudy Maxa’s World
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    Eileen talks spring break ideas on Rudy Maxa’s World

    ByEileen Ogintz February 9, 2015July 16, 2021

    Eileen talks with Rudy Maxa’s Travel World about ideas for family spring breaks. Listen to podcast.

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  • Teen Ambassadors offer unique perspective on 9/11 Memorial Museum
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    Teen Ambassadors offer unique perspective on 9/11 Memorial Museum

    ByEileen Ogintz February 5, 2015August 12, 2021

    David Rothblatt and Fia Hargil are among the six members of the inaugural class of teen ambassadors trained to work with children who visit the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opened at the new World Trade Center this past May.

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  • A quirky new hotel in San Francisco makes you feel special
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    A quirky new hotel in San Francisco makes you feel special

    ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2015July 7, 2021

    Welcome to the Hotel G, San Francisco’s newest boutique hotel with 151 rooms just north of Union Square but miles away from the big-box chain hotels in the neighborhood. Incidentally, there have been hotels in this building since just a few years after the 1906 Earthquake.

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  • At the Presidio in San Francisco, top chef aims at kids menus
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    At the Presidio in San Francisco, top chef aims at kids menus

    ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2015July 15, 2021

    Award winning San Francisco chef Traci Des Jardins wishes American restaurants would take a page—a menu page—from their counterparts in other parts of the world. “The United States is one of the only places in the world that has special meals for kids,” she said. “We are conditioned to teach kids to eat differently than we do and that is a mistake.”

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  • Off the slopes snowshoe fun at Northstar California
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    Off the slopes snowshoe fun at Northstar California

    ByEileen Ogintz February 2, 2015July 15, 2021

    Rather than ski, I’m going to have some fun in the snow a different way—hiking on snowshoes in the woods, though the lack of snowfall does impede us a bit.

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  • Families love concierge level for informality
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    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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