Smart Travel Advice

Flight Cancelations and even significant delays can out a big dent in your vacation plans, but a timely refund and additional compensation can help: 5 Things To know to get paid

4 Tips To protect your kids’ health on summer vacations: How to avoid and deal with big bites, allergies, sunburn & more when your family heads outdoors.

You look forward to family vacations. Your teen dreads them. How can you get them excited to go and help them have fun once you’re away? Here are my best tips.

Doing laundry on vacation is a sure way to kill the fun. Here are 8 ways to put it off, farm it out or make it as easy as possible when you can’t avoid it.

You can’t avoid jetlag on long-distance flights but these steps will help you and your kids get over it faster, from planning to flying to after you land.

College campus tours take time and cost money. Here are 10+ tips to make the most of these visits and help your teens make a great college decision.

A reader asks FamiliesGo! how to save money on a family vacation on a popular new Royal Caribbean cruise ship. I provide my best tips and resources for saving money on any new and popular cruise.

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 …

29 Things To Think About & Do Before trying full-time RV living and traveling with kids or teens, from a family who learned them by doing it.

In 5 easy steps we help your family decide on a dream vacation, figure out the cost and make a plan to save month-by-month to pay for it.

33 safe and healthy travel tips from experts to help you protect your kids, health, money and documents on vacation, plus tips on travel insurance.

19 tips and tricks for traveling with kids over the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays. How to pack, and keep your cool while flying, driving and spending a lot of time with your relatives.

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 …

We took quite a few flights with Tiny Traveler when she was a toddler and preschooler and were lucky enough to never have a meltdown. …

Getting kids to eat healthy foods while on vacation is hard. Here are tips for healthy snacks, eating in transit and feeding your picky eaters away from home.

Flying cheaply over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday travel is not easy. Familiesgo! offers 6 tips for saving money and avoiding crowds.

Is it possible to share a hotel room with a baby or toddler and not got to bed with them at 7:00? How do you make sure you’ll get some sleep when you actually need to, and where does the baby sleep anyway? I have all answers

5 Facts about RV travel that might surprise you. and inspire you to plan a campervan vacation this year!

I love bicycle riding. From the moment we began teaching Tiny Traveler to ride a two-wheeler I have been dreaming of family cycling trips through …

5 Tips for your first flight with a new baby. Yes you can do it. Here’s how!

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 …

Motion sickness in kids can make even the shortest trip fraught with worry. Here are 8 ways to keep kids from getting car sick, and to avoid a big mess when it happens anyway.

Yes, I know. You need to get your family from the airport to your hotel and back again as simply as possible. You don’t need …

Here are my best safety tips — plus a printable checklist!– to get your family ready to hit the road for winter vacation, summer road trips or holiday season family visits.

Here are 5 rules for sharing a vacation rental with extended family. Tips for sharing cooking, shopping, cleaning, and compromising on your kid rules.

We put a surprising amount of time and effort into keeping our houseplants alive. We make sure they get the right amount of sun and …

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. …

5 tips and ideas we used to have a staycation with our kid that felt like a real vacation

Your cruise-vacation needs change when you have a baby, kid or teen with you. Ask these 12 questions to ensure the ship has all the amenities you want & need.

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 …