A family reunion can mean a lot of things. For some it might be three generations of siblings, their parents and their kids all in one place once a year. For others it might be once-a-decade meeting of their uncles, cousins and more. According to a *HomeAway survey, smaller family …

Read about 4 Resorts With Good Deals for Single-Parent Families. And about VIP services that get you easily through the airport with kids  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 …

Allianz Global Travel returned to sponsor a second #MOMtravelchat about safe travel, this one focusing on summer vacations. The travel insurer shared helpful statistics around safe travel, loss, and preventing things from going wrong. And our audience exchanged their biggest concerns and best tips for keeping their homes, family and …

Read about planning road trips and prepping for them. For a lot of people, getting ready for a trip is half the fun.  Then comes the process of getting to your destination…by way of a very long drive…with kids in the back seat. While you might once have enjoyed leisurely drive time …

A good summer 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, but for all the wrong reasons. We want families who read FamiliesGo! to have the best possible memories from all …

Not everyone is a natural traveler. If travel makes you anxious, vacationing with kids can be doubly intimidating. Don’t worry! Here are our five best travel tips to help you save money, pack less and be safer while you’re away. I hope they’ll making planning and going on family vacations …

Our #MOMtravelchat twitter party took on a romantic hue ahead of Valentine’s Day with a focus on parent-only getaways and tips for carving out couple time on family vacations. (Here are couple time ideas from parents who did it.) All About Finding Parent-Only Time The Couple-Time Wish List Several moms said they …

Our only kid-free parent getaway so far was to Montreal for my 40th birthday. My memories aren’t of Montreal so much as of what we were able to do without a child tagging along: We went barhopping one night and spent three hours eating dinner the next. We took a …

Need more advice on traveling with grandparents? Read Disney World With 3 Generations. I caught the travel bug from my parents, who love to travel and always made it a priority to explore the world. I knew I wanted to keep traveling after I became a mother. I just didn’t know how …

. Whether it’s summer vacation or the holiday season on the horizon, it’s certain that far-away relatives will start clamoring for you to hop on a plane and fly home for a visit with your little one—again. They seem oblivious to the headaches of holiday travel or can’t believe you would …

For better or for worse, your holiday plans are made. The bags are mostly packed, the presents mostly bought and wrapped (unless you’re my husband, who probably hasn’t started his shopping yet), the itinerary for driving, flying or just staying home is set. After the holiday travel is over, it’s …

Need more information? Here are our Travel Safety Tips from 10 Experts. At this month’s MOMtravelchat party we took on the icky subject of travel problems. We discussed the many ways vacations go wrong, how to prevent some of them or plough through when you can’t, when to give up, …

With November and December come the bum rush of holiday travel, visiting and family time, which bring with them excitement, frenzy and, invariably, stress. The logistics of getting over the river and through the woods (read: over the George Washington Bridge and through New-York-area traffic) to grandmother’s house can raise …

November and December are big travel months. We travel near and far to visit family, get someplace warm —or snowy—or to give our family the present of a dream vacation. It’s good to be reminded that even amid all that holiday travel cheer things can go wrong on vacations in …

There’s no place like home for the holidays, especially if you’re a kid. So what happens when you, the parents, want a change of scenery and decide to spend Christmas, Hanukkah or New Year’s Eve away from home at a snow-bound ski chalet in the Rockies or on a sunny island …

At one of our biggest ever MOMtravelchat Twitter Parties we talked about the influence kids have on their family’s vacation plans, and how to turn that influence in to something constructive by letting the kids help to plan family trips. (*HomeAway sponsored the party, and the theme was inspired by their survey …

Do your kids influence where you go on vacation or what you do when you get there? They might have more sway in helping you plan than you want to think they do. Some 85% of U.S. parents give their kids some say in family vacation plans, according to a …

In the fall Tiny Traveler and I were flying coast-to-coast on Jet Blue. Of course, given the current stranglehold airlines are putting on seats that don’t cost extra, it seemed likely my daughter and I would be sitting in two middle seats, one in front of the other, rather than next to each other. (I …

At MOMtravelchat this month we talked about Super Staycations. We gave away tickets from IMax and games from three game-makers we love: Blue Orange, Think Fun and Peaceable Kingdom. And we exchanged tips and ideas for making staycations better. Here’s what we learned: Why We Staycation Our moms like staycations …

I love these duck photos. For one thing, they’re funny. They also remind me of a trip to Germany to see my husband’s family when Tiny Traveler was 3½. It was filled with summer fun we still talk about, much of it unplanned. These ducks, our companions on a weekend …

I started FamiliesGo! because when Tiny Traveler was small it was incredibly difficult to find out  whether a hotel, even one that bills itself as a family hotel, had the amenities I needed as a parent. Most of the guidebooks I looked at defined family hotels as inexpensive with a pool and free breakfast, but but …

For our July #MOMtravelchat we talked all about summer travel with kids 4 and under, a set of travelers who are easy in some ways, but present their own unique challenges (they’re fussy and messy and they travel with a lot of extra stuff). Here’s what we learned: New Moms Travel …

There’s always one week of summer where everyone is home from camp and work but we aren’t going away. We need things to do so that we feel like we’re really on vacation, and so we don’t spend the week organizing closets, answering email, and watching Sing! on an endless …

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 with the private contact form down below. Add your own great advice in the comments. More Ask FamiliesGo! • Managing …

NYC museums are nearly as plentiful as taxis. Visiting at least a few is a must for visitors, but taking kids, especially little ones, into these quiet halls of art and design can seem intimidating. Here are four tips for how to prepare kids for a museum visit and make the most …

Do Dads plan vacations differently than moms? What can’t they live without when they travel and how is it they can pack so darn fast! We asked these questions and more at our June MOMtravelchat Twitter party, where we had more than 30 partygoers, more than 900 tweets and 37 …

We’ve pretty much given up on hotels. It began when a second child came along and led us to seriously re-evaluate our family travel style. We realized that having extra space, full kitchen, and laundry facilities made vacation rentals more genuinely relaxing than squeezing into a hotel room. Then this …

Just six months ago, I was chomping at the bit to downsize from my 1,800 sq. ft. dream home steps from the national forest in Big Bear Lake, California. Our plan was to go to San Francisco in our RV and work in the city at high-paying jobs while living …

Here are the summer’s Top Theme Parks to Visit Theme parks are go-to vacation destinations for some families and places to avoid at all costs for others. But if you have kids, you’ll wind up spending at least a few weekends at amusement parks, be it a giant destination theme park or your …

This is an exciting week at FamiliesGo! We’re joining with some wonderful globetrotting travel writers to launch Weekend Travel Inspiration, a collection of content that is meant to give you travel ideas to dream about and maybe even plan a trip around. This is the perfect week to launch this …