Uncategorized
The Golden Age of Amercian Family Vacations
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Susan Sessions Rugh has written a great book about the history of the family camping or at least car driving adventure. The book is called The Golden Age of American Family Vacations and in it she captures some of [...]
Great family deals in Branson Missouri
Branson Missouri, famous for conntry music and family fun, has tried to take advantage of the Governemtn refund checks coming now and over the enxt few weeks. This is great for any families going to Branson Missouri over the next few weeks.
Branson, Missouri, wants people to have fun with their economic stimulus check by vacationing [...]
Forbes article on family vacation trends
I was just reading an article at Forbes magazine online that talks about the history of family vacations and how they have changed.
Among older people in a study it seems that only 4% took a plane on vacation whereas now 63% of families go on vacation by plane. And kids are treated a lot better [...]
Popular resources for Family travel
There are two forums around that I like for family travel. They are the Lonely Planet Thorn Tree for traveling with kids and Bootsnall also has a forum for traveling with children.
I am in the final stages as well of finishing a forum that will be dedicated only to family travel and as much as [...]
Survey on Summer holiday plans
According to a survey from AOL Travel and Zogby International, 57% of Americans feel they have less money to spend this year on summer vacations than they did in 2007 and are looking at ways to save on their travel costs. To save money, 33% of Americans are planning to stay with friends/family for lodging [...]
Saving money and eating healthy on vacation
Vacations are marred by bad eating and not only bad eating but usually our daily schedules are thrown out the window.
When you are away from home it is very common that you eat based on hunger and snacks are almost always bad food. Both of these are very bad and there are ways to avoid [...]
WestJet deal western and eastern Canada today only
In celebration of spring, WestJet today announced a
one-day $29 springtime airfare sale for guests travelling within the western triangle. Guests
travelling between Calgary, Edmonton and Abbotsford can take advantage of the $29 fare
by booking on April 30, 2008, for travel until June 24, 2008. As part of this sale, the airline
is also offering $129 airfare for [...]