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    Cool Travel Gear

    The right shoes for your family travels

    ByEileen Ogintz April 20, 2017July 16, 2021

    The right gear—whether you are going hiking, biking or exploring a new city—can make all the difference. Featuring travel shoes

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  • Cool Travel Gear – the right luggage
    Cool Travel Gear

    Cool Travel Gear – the right luggage

    ByEileen Ogintz April 20, 2017July 16, 2021

    Taking the Kids is now featuring “cool travel gear” – in our continuing effort to help families on their journeys. Here’s some of what I’ve discovered works great in the luggage department recently

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  • To San Francisco to commemorate the “summer of love”
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    To San Francisco to commemorate the “summer of love”

    ByEileen Ogintz April 20, 2017June 29, 2023

    Take the kids and grandkids to San Francisco where the city is marking the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with a year’s worth of special events, exhibits, concerts and more.

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  • Disney transformative? Try new Pandora at WDW and Guardians at DisneyLand this summer
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    Disney transformative? Try new Pandora at WDW and Guardians at DisneyLand this summer

    ByEileen Ogintz April 19, 2017July 14, 2021

    Often families head to Disney because they want to escape the real world. With the opening next month of Pandora-The World of Avatar at Animal Kingdom, a visit can be a transformative adventure

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  • Tragedy on cruise: ship responsible for couple’s death, report finds
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    Tragedy on cruise: ship responsible for couple’s death, report finds

    ByEileen Ogintz April 19, 2017December 26, 2023

    On the first night of a long-planned cruise in the Peruvian Amazon, Larry and Christy Hammer, retirees in their early 70s, were killed in a fire that broke out in their cabin on the 31-passenger La Estrella Amazonica.

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  • A Portland, Maine Family Vacation at the Inn by the Sea
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    A Portland, Maine Family Vacation at the Inn by the Sea

    ByEileen Ogintz April 18, 2017July 8, 2021

    The Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A private boardwalk leads through a wildlife sanctuary to an idyllic sandy beach, where you’ll see lobster boats and sunsets straight out of an Edward Hopper painting.

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  • Can flying actually be fun? Yes, but more likely on a foreign carrier
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    Can flying actually be fun? Yes, but more likely on a foreign carrier

    ByEileen Ogintz April 13, 2017July 14, 2021

    If you’re thinking you wouldn’t find these amenities on an American carrier, you are probably right. “In the United States, you don’t see a lot of airlines offering amenities for kids,” said Brian Sumers, who covers airlines and aviation for the travel industry website Skift.

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  • Why do the major airlines like bullies?
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    Why do the major airlines like bullies?

    ByAndy Yemma April 12, 2017November 10, 2025

    Anyone who has flown in coach in recent years knows that from the moment you arrive at the airport departure curb there’s an indifferent vibe from the ticket agents to the gate agents, to the flight crews, to the baggage carousels

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  • One of Carnival's newest ships - Carnival Vista
    Cruises & All-Inclusive | Taking the Kids Blogs

    Cruises for all generations – Carnival Corporation

    ByEileen Ogintz April 11, 2017July 7, 2021

    Name one vacation that’s guaranteed to please everyone from the preschoolers to the moodiest teen to grandma. A cruise! Especially on a Carnival Corporation ship

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  • Eileen on WGN Radio on how to let your kids help you plan trips
    Eileen in the Media

    Eileen on WGN Radio on how to let your kids help you plan trips

    ByEileen Ogintz April 9, 2017July 16, 2021

    Columnist and leading travel expert Eileen Ogintz joined WGN Radio’s Dane Neal On the Road and told him that having the kids help to plan the trip and pack their own bags will make the trip more enjoyable for all involved.

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