Recent Posts
Wicked Good Travel Tips
Return To Blog Listing
Essential travel tips shared by avid travelers worldwide. Offers candid advice for trip planning, finding last minute travel deals, lowest cost airfare, hotel reviews, and must know insider information about destinations around the world.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'family travel'
5Nt Disney World Family Vacation Only $699pp From JetBlue
JetBlue has some fantastic vacation deals out there for travel this winter. One of the best is a family vacation to Disney World Florida for the low price of $699 per person. The “Magic Your Way” package” includes air from New Y...
New England Holiday Festivals Too Good To Miss
No one dresses up for the holidays like the historic towns and villages of New England. The first two weekends of December bring holiday festivals galore featuring historic house tours, gaily decorated inns, musical performances, costumed carolers,...
Sharpen Your Serve This Winter – 5 Southern Tennis Resorts To Tune Up Your Game
If you live north of the Mason-Dixon line, right about the time you reach for the rake, you have to hang up your tennis racket until spring. Luckily there are a number of terrific southern resorts with outstanding tennis programs to keep you in the...
Calling All Pirates & Wenches – Pirates In Paradise Comes To Key West
Earlier this month we told you about SEVEN (!) hysterical Key West Festivals that take place each fall – well here’s one more, and this one the whole family will love – Pirates in Paradise! For a full week from November 28 to Dece...
Free Disney Park Passes – Volunteer A Day, Get A Day
The Disney organization is doing it’s part to encourage volunteerism across the USA in 2010. Disney will be giving away 1 million one day passes to either it’s Disney World Florida or Disneyland California parks. Simply volunteer ...
Like Restaurant Week? You’ll Love The New Spa and Hotel Weeks!
If you’re like me and millions of other in-the-know adventurers, you look forward to Restaurant Weeks each year as a ready excuse to gather your friends and experience a few new eateries. Well put a smile on your face… the concept has...
Six Crazy-Great Fall Festivals In The Florida Keys
Few places on earth can match the free spirit revelry that is ready to party-out anytime, anyplace as in the Florida Keys. Each fall as summer temperatures cool, party temperatures rise with a host of funky, fun fall festivals. Here’s a list ...
Tradition and ‘The Good Life’ Is Alive and Well at The Balsams in Dixville Notch New Hapshire
I’ve just returned from three wonderful ‘north woods’ days spent at The Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch New Hampshire. You’re probably familiar with DIxville Notch from news broadcasts of Presidential election campa...
September Brings Big Sales at Disney World
Now that the kids have been called back to school, Disney Resorts have begun a super sale - discounting resort rooms from 15 to 42%. The largest discounts are on deluxe villas where you can save a whopping 42% during most of September and the first...
Teach The Whole Family To Sail On Your Next Vacation
To impart the love of sailing and the thrill of skimming across sparkling aqua waters in a tropical paradise is a magnificent gift to share with every member of your family. Some sports are best learned in childhood - swimming, sailing, skating skiin...
10 (Painless) Eco-Friendly Tips For Your Next Trip
Looking for some simple ways to be more environmentally friendly on your next vacation? Here is a practical list of small adjustments each of us can make to lesson our eco footprint as we travel the globe. Each of us can minimize the impact left in o...
3 Golf Vacations To Die For
Nothing delivers the psychological high and lows like the game of golf. And don’t we love to mutter to ourselves as we take on one challenge after another! There’s nothing like setting all your daily worries aside and treating yoursel...
Hoowee, It’s Rodeo Time In Colorado - Bring The Kids
Nothing says summer like an arena full of rip roaring cowboys hoop’n and holler’n and bustin’ a bronco or two. Colorado has been prime rodeo country for 200 years - since the world’s first rodeo was held in 1869. This summ...
Family Adventures ‘Into The Wild’ With The Appalachian Mountain Club
Embrace nature, whirl into the wild; find joy being among the tress, streams and wildflowers! This summer put yourself in the capable hands of Appalachian Mountain Club to recharge your spirit and put a smile on every family member’s face. I&...
Another Incredible Deal - This Time to Ireland
Time to start planning a family trip to Ireland! How does 6 nights in a 5-Star 19th Century Manor Resort, roundtrip airfare, plus a full-size rental car with unlimited mileage for $499 sound? - Incredible, am I right? The folks at Sceptre Tours hav...
See Columbus’ Replica Ships The Nina And The Pinta This Summer
The Columbus Foundation has lovingly constructed replica sailing ships of Columbus’ famed vessels the Nina and the Pinta (also known as the Santa Clara). The caravel ship Nina has been acclaimed as the most historically accurate recreation in...
Free Family Travel Guides From Trip Advisor
Great new (free) Family Travel Guides are available for download from the good folks at Trip Advisor. I just got an email (about a dream trip promotion) and added on the bottom of the email were links to their new Family Travel Guides for the USA.Â...
Hiking and Camping in Big Sur
If you’re planning a camping trip out West, there are very few destinations as stunning as Big Sur. Located along Scenic Highway One, about 150 miles south of San Francisco, Big Sur is one of Northern California’s most popular destinatio...
It’s Time To Plan Your Dazzling Pre-Holiday Weekend in New York City
No one puts on a party dress like New York getting ready for the holidays. Every shop window glistens with elaborate displays, and the theater scene pops with magical productions. Ever since the Miracle on 34th Street enchanted a nation in 1947, ...
Where To Pick Your Own Apples, Pumpkins, Peaches and Don’t Forget the Christmas Tree
It’s harvest time again all across the country. Farmer’s fields are bursting with juicy ripe fruits and everyone is anxious to bring in the bounty before the first hard frost. It’s almost your solemn duty to rally the kids (or b...
Free Print and Go Discount Coupon For Top London Attractions
If you’re planning to jet off to Britain sometime soon, don’t go without a visit to this terrific website: DiscountBritain.net. Discount Britain offers travelers London sightseeing discounts of 20% on attractions such as St. Paul’...
Museum, Aquarium and Zoo Sleepovers Are All The Rage For Family Adventures!
Have you ever heard a lion snore, or wandered among sleeping dinosaurs? A new trend has taken hold in museums, zoos and aquariums across the United States - party sleepovers, aimed at fun and learning for children and adults alike. Just take a look...
End of Summer Getaway The Whole Family Will Love
It’s not too late for an exciting, adventurous, family friendly end of summer vacation. Just over 2 hours north of Boston lies the Waterville Valley Resort. If you’ve only thought of Waterville when the snow flies, it’s time for a...
Ritz-Carlton Initiates Voluntourism Program For Upscale Travelers
I guess you could call this ‘doing good while doing well’. The Ritz-Carlton chain has introduced imaginative volunteer programs in all of its 70 properties worldwide. Leading the way with volunteer programs in the hotel industry and taki...
A Really Great Site for Planning Travel With Kids
When we traveled to China with our kids in the early 80’s , people thought we were just plain nuts. (You know who you are!!) But it appears we were ahead of the curve, because these days everyone realizes that seeing the world with your child...
Live Your Baseball Road Trip Dream!
The boys of summer are back and it’s time to head out to the ball park to make life long memories of battles well fought and won (or lost). I can almost hear the the cheers and jeers raining down from bleacher seats and sky boxes alike. Beach...
Where The Heck Is Cameroon?
I was thinking somewhere in Southeast Asia, but alas I was very wrong, it’s located on the arch of the western gulf on the African continent. So how’s your knowledge of world geography? We’ve found a fun and addicting way to put y...
Your Child’s Favorite Fairytales Come Alive in England
We all have treasured memories of our favorite childhood stories: Winnie The Pooh, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter to name a few. What’s remarkable, is they all have ...
