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  • Tired of cooking turkey? Try a Thanksgiving destination
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    Tired of cooking turkey? Try a Thanksgiving destination

    ByEileen Ogintz October 27, 2011July 8, 2021

    Whatever the reason, it’s not too late to turn Thanksgiving into a mini vacation with the kids. You’ve already got half the week off from work and school anyway. Tell the relatives you’ll see them at Christmas or, if you like them enough, invite them along.

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  • Safety first everywhere – except for babies on airplanes!
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    Safety first everywhere – except for babies on airplanes!

    ByEileen Ogintz October 23, 2011July 5, 2021

    Everything on a plane — including coffee pots — has to be restrained during takeoff and landing and in times of turbulence–everything, that is, except young children sitting on a parent’s laps.

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  • To Aulani, Disney’s First Hawaii Resort
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    To Aulani, Disney’s First Hawaii Resort

    ByEileen Ogintz October 20, 2011July 10, 2021

    Disney employed more than 100 local consultants to advise them on everything from storytelling to music to architecture. Local fish and produce are served at the resort restaurants and children can learn to snorkel with Hawaiian fish in the artificial Rainbow Reef.

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  • Dreaming BIG when you take the kids
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    Dreaming BIG when you take the kids

    ByEileen Ogintz October 13, 2011June 28, 2023

    Even in the same family, travel styles—and travel dreams—differ widely. One person’s dream is another’s nightmare. You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever been backpacking with someone whose idea of roughing it is a hotel without a blow drier or room service.

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  • Celebrating Halloween 21st Century Style
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    Celebrating Halloween 21st Century Style

    ByEileen Ogintz October 13, 2011June 28, 2023

    Neighborhood trick-or-treating is so old school. It only lasts one night, after all. What if it rains — or snows? What if it’s cold? (Coats really don’t add much to a princess or vampire ensemble.) What if one of the kids is sick? What if you’re stuck at work, despite your best efforts to get home early?

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  • Disney sees Aulani as the place for destination weddings
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    Disney sees Aulani as the place for destination weddings

    ByEileen Ogintz October 11, 2011July 10, 2021

    There are already 1,000 weddings a year at Walt Disney World in Orlando–upwards of 20 per cent among blended families, says Korrie McFann, who oversees Disney’s e wedding and honeymoon business around the world. The company anticipates Aulani to rival Orlando for the wedding business.

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  • Plenty to do with little ones in the Orlando area
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    Plenty to do with little ones in the Orlando area

    ByEileen Ogintz October 10, 2011July 8, 2021

    So go ahead. Bring the little ones. You don’t have to stay a week. And you don’t have to see everything. You can’t even if you try.

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  • Sitting under the star listening to ukulele music – it’s Disney
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    Sitting under the star listening to ukulele music – it’s Disney

    ByEileen Ogintz October 7, 2011July 16, 2021

    We’re sitting on woven mats under the stars listening to the best Ukulele playing I’ve ever heard. Rather than a huge luau with terrible food and hackneyed performances, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa on Oahu has opted to celebrate Hawaiian culture with the Aulani Starlit Hui

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  • Touring the Largest and Newest Legoland in the World
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    Touring the Largest and Newest Legoland in the World

    ByEileen Ogintz October 6, 2011July 10, 2021

    “This isn’t passive entertainment,” promises Bill Vollbrecht, the LEGOLAND Parks designer who walked me through just before opening. “Kids aren’t just being entertained here. They are part of the process.”

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  • Spas treatments for all ages at Disney’s Aulani
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    Spas treatments for all ages at Disney’s Aulani

    ByEileen Ogintz October 6, 2011July 10, 2021

    Laniwai (the name means freshwater heaven in Hawaiian) is supposed to embrace the Hawaiian connection to nature. I think it can enhance family connections too both by encouraging families to enjoy the facilities together and on their own

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