Things To Know

Bring your kids along on your honeymoon to make it a familymoon? It sounds like a lost episode of the Brady Bunch.  But 17% of men and 18% of women marry …

20 Dos and Don’ts For Long-Term RV Travel With Kids Our 31-Foot, 6-Week Learning Experience Our plan was to sell our enormous dream home in Southern California. We’d go to …

A common mantra in family travel circles is that you get 18 summers with your kids. That is, you have 18 summers before the leave the nest to plan vacations …

Most of us have a dream vacation on our bucket list. Maybe it’s a European art tour hitting all cities and landmarks, an adventure-sports trip to Australia, or a summer-long …

A good vacation can generate memories that stay with you long after you’ve returned home to your everyday routine. When something goes amiss on vacation that is often memorable, too, …

Traveling with kids always has unique challenges. Holiday travel is always extra stressful. It’s no wonder that most parents dread holiday season travel with kids. Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas or …

On any city vacation we take, admission fees to museums and other cultural institutions are one of our biggest expenses. For art, history and even children’s museums, admission typically starts …

Having a camera on our phones makes it easy to take pictures. So we take a lot of photos these days, especially vacation photos. But then, we have a lot …

We took quite a flew flights with Tiny Traveler when she was a toddler and preschooler and were lucky enough to never have a meltdown. I still have sympathy for …

One of the most fun parts of being on vacation is eating good food. For you that might mean trying all kinds of new things or eating fancier meals than …

Question: The Holiday-Season Airfare Challenge How can I find cheap airfares for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays? FamiliesGo! Answer: In general you save money on airfare by not traveling when …

Short-term vacation rentals are popular with families. You’ve probably rented someone else’s house or apartment for a vacation with your kids somewhere along the way (or thought about it). But …

This is Ask FamiliesGo!, where we answer our readers’ questions about family travel. We add new questions as our readers pose them, so keep checking back. You can ask your own question …

Updated March 2020 Your kids are great and you love them. But being confined in an RV with them for ten days might not seem like much a vacation. I …

Updated September 2020 with new trail rides. I love bicycle riding. From the moment we began teaching Tiny Traveler to ride a two-wheeler I have been dreaming of family cycling …

Updated May 2020 Few things scare new parents like the thought of *flying for the first time with a baby or toddler. There is the prospect of getting through the …

Updated August 2020 Who couldn’t use apps that help you to plan and save for vacations and spend wisely while you’re off traveling. When you start traveling with kids your …

For our first car trip with Tiny Traveler, we packed the car up bright and early, then transferred the 6-month-old baby from her crib to her car seat still in …

There are certain New York experiences that native residents happily leave to the tourists. New Years Eve in Times Square is one (really, anything in Times Square) and for me, …

The Trouble With Kids and Taxis Yes, we know. You don’t need a rental car and either there isn’t public transit or you can’t deal with public transit with the …

I think about road-trip safety and health far more than I used to. Now that we have a child (and our airfare costs have increased by 50%) travel by road trip …

If you don’t live where you and your spouse grew up, you probably wind up sharing a house with relatives over the holiday season. Sometimes it’s their house. Sometimes it’s …

Plants are often the detail that gets overlooked in our house in the flurry to plan and get out of the house on vacation. But few things are more discouraging …

Updated May 2021 It’s probably easy to believe I was not excited about the prospect of flying long haul to Australia from the U.K. with a 10-month old baby. In …

Updated march 2020 Following two exotic trips over the winter (Guadeloupe and Senegal), plus spring break jaunt to Pittsburgh, we opted to be relatively frugal for the summer and staycation. …

Updated February 2020 Cruising is an easy way to vacation with children, especially if you live in a city that’s an embarkation point. Whether you were an avid cruise-goer before …

When was the last time you traveled without your family? I can count the number of times I’ve been away from my family for a night or two on one …

“Come out little guy. Are you in there?” My son Sam, 10 at the time, poked at a snail shell in Calais, France, glorying in the special mini-fork that came with …

Updated June 2020 Laundry on vacation? I avoid it at all costs. In my carefree younger days I would pack 14 pairs of underwear on a 2-week vacation and not think …

As part of a married couple, I never expected to spend a lot of time traveling with a toddler as a single parent. But my family moved to Tunisia from …