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  • ABC News — Eileen likes Mardi Gras for kids
    Eileen in the Media

    ABC News — Eileen likes Mardi Gras for kids

    ByEileen Ogintz February 11, 2012July 16, 2021

    Eileen quoted by ABC News on places to go and see in New Orleans for Mardi Gras

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  • Family travel bloggers urge industry to try harder
    Eileen in the Media

    Family travel bloggers urge industry to try harder

    ByEileen Ogintz February 9, 2012July 16, 2021

    At the first Family Travel Conference, held at the Omni Berkshire Place Feb. 3-4, more than 40 family travel professionals were unanimous that restaurants, hotels and cruise lines need to improve their children’s menus to make them tastier as well as healthier.

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  • What you need to know about cruise safety
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    What you need to know about cruise safety

    ByEileen Ogintz February 9, 2012July 7, 2021

    It is important to keep in perspective that the Concordia disaster was by all accounts an aberration in an industry that prides itself on its safety record. Between 2005 and 2010, cruise lines carried nearly 100 million passengers with a total of 16 deaths…

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  • New York Times quotes Eileen on airline baggage fees
    Eileen in the Media

    New York Times quotes Eileen on airline baggage fees

    ByEileen Ogintz February 6, 2012July 16, 2021

    The New York Times quotes Eileen about airline baggage fees. “It’s not a question of money,” she said. “People are just fed up with being nickeled and dimed.”

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  • Just a walk in the snowy woods
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    Just a walk in the snowy woods

    ByEileen Ogintz February 5, 2012July 7, 2021

    I was thinking about that Snow Walk the other night when Mel called from college to report giddily that she’d spent the weekend on a back-country skiing trip that “was harder than anything I’ve done on skis.”

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  • Taking the Kids doesn’t mean leaving the romance behind
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    Taking the Kids doesn’t mean leaving the romance behind

    ByEileen Ogintz February 2, 2012June 29, 2023

    I love traveling with my children, their pals and various other pint-sized relatives. I do it all the time. But there’s something deliciously decadent about an adult-only trip, whether you manage just a night away in a nearby hotel or a trip of a lifetime.

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  • At the 9/11 Memorial on a cold, snowy morning
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    At the 9/11 Memorial on a cold, snowy morning

    ByEileen Ogintz February 2, 2012June 28, 2023

    Every one of our boys parents are immigrants—from Africa, Mexico, Jamaica and Trinidad, from other places. They learned that had they been immigrants in the 1870s living here, they would have worked 10 hours a day rather than go to school…

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  • Seven teen boys share NYC penthouse for a weekend
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    Seven teen boys share NYC penthouse for a weekend

    ByEileen Ogintz February 1, 2012July 8, 2021

    Some of my friends thought I was nuts. When I won a weekend stay at the Hilton New York’s five-bedroom penthouse, I invited along seven teenagers to share the fun at New York’s largest hotel.

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  • From Guest to Guide: Growing up in Adventure Travel!
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    From Guest to Guide: Growing up in Adventure Travel!

    ByEileen Ogintz January 29, 2012October 3, 2023

    Guest blogger Kasey Austin writes that her “earliest memories go way back to Alaska, everything from ice fishing with my dad to spending time at a remote fly-in camp and hiking trails frequented by moose and other larger than life critters!”

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  • The un-cruise: a sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands
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    The un-cruise: a sailing trip in the British Virgin Islands

    ByEileen Ogintz January 26, 2012July 7, 2021

    The best part: There is no one telling us what time we have to eat dinner or even where we are going next. Welcome to the alternative to mega cruise ships and fancy resorts.

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