Our Families Dream Big promotion is featuring a fabulous family ski vacation to Aspen/Snowmass in Colorado. Pack your woolies and join us in the hunt to win a family of four vacation to Aspen/Snowmass courtesy of our sponsor, Ski.com
Note: Twitter Party on Monday, Dec. 12th, 9pm ET – See our skipals at TravelingMom.com for more details and register there for more chances to win!
Are you thinking, "Me in Aspen, no way!" Too many celebrities and boldface names for your family to feel comfortable? Think again! When Family Travel Forum partners with TakingtheKids.com and TravelingMom.com in promoting a Dream Family Vacation, we mean it.
Best yet, this Dream Big Family Ski Vacation will be at your new home away from home, Snowmass, which is the most family-friendly of Aspen's four super mountain resorts. By day, try those pizza wedges and face plants in your old jeans, and by night dress up (or dress down) for a night on the town in the chic home of the X-Games: Aspen, Colorado. You may snag a photo op with Shaun White or Kevin Costner while you're touring this famous mountain retreat.
Our Dream Big Ski Vacation Includes Almost Everything but Chapstick!
Ready to start dreaming? Picture a 5-night winter snowsports holiday with lodging; 3 days of lift tickets, lessons and even rental gear included; so that at almost no cost to you, your family can master the great sports of skiing or snowboarding together. We've even added in a day of dogsledding so your family can enjoy the beauty of the Aspen highlands off the slopes.
Read more about the details of this Dream Ski Vacation in Colorado and the Terms and Conditions of this promotion. Then, follow along with us for a chance to win.
How You can Win the Dream Big Ski Aspen Colorado Family Vacation
Our travel community has 4 easy ways to enter for a random drawing of this great vacation prize, but to help us keep track of your entries, you'll have to post a comment below explaining what you've done.
1. Sign up for "The Family Vacationist" the e-newsletter packed with vacation deals, travel tips and more, sent to you twice per month. You can do it right now:
2. Read through the Family Snowsports Section on this site and comment on any stories. We'd love to get your feedback!
3. Post your questions about family ski vacations on our Facebook page or our Twitter feed so our friends at Ski.com can help us answer them and get you started on a lifelong love of winter sports.
4. Join our Twitter Party for Snowsports Lovers on December 12th at 9pm ET by following the hashtag #DREAMVACAY #TMOM. Let us know what you thought of the party in the Comments field below, or what you tweeted about.
5. Post one or more comments on any of the articles in our partner “TakingTheKids.com Snow Vacations” category and learn even more about snowsports. Please leave a comment here telling us you did that!
6. Sign up for our partner's weekly TravelingMom.com newsletter for the scoop on the latest travel deals, contests and freebies. Please leave us a comment below so we can make sure you get an extra entry for doing it!
Don't forget! Remember, you can find more chances to enter by visiting our partners at TravelingMom.com and TakingtheKids.com. Although you can submit more than one entry per day, there's a fine line between boosting your chances to win and spamming your friends!
The entry period ends December 19th at midnight ET; a winner will be picked at random from all entries after December 19th, so you have plenty of time to enter. Prizes and details subject to change and subject to availability. All winners will be chosen using random.org. Restrictions may apply. You will have 48 hours to respond and claim your prize.
Please! Read all the legal fine print for contests here. Encourage friends and families to join too, and if you let us know in the Comments section below, we'll give you an extra chance to win for everyone that you refer. Although we only have one Grand Prize Ski Aspen Family Vacation to give away, four other lucky families will be selected to win a copy of our guidebook, "The Complete Idiots Guide to the Best Family Vacations" so you can plan another snowsports vacation together.
Good luck!
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I was the same way. I had my Bat Mitzvah on top of Masadah and was complaining of the heat. I didn't truly recognize what an amazing place I was in. I was fortunate enough to return last summer and had the time of my life. I look forward to seeing your post for when you get to return. I wish you all the best!
one of my all time favorite vacations.
This was one of the best trips I have ever been on.
I am ecstatic that I was able to participate in learning my heritage, history, and my parents past.
My trip to Africa was really an extraordinary experience, and I fell in love with the country Nigeria. I am so happy that my father allowed me to see my heritage and my family.
Truly humbling
I hope you enjoy learning about my experiences in Paris, France!
Thank you so much for this information. Multi-generational travel is an area that I am interested in, but it is not easy to navigate various ages, levels of mobility and interests. These tips are super useful!
This was seriously such a life-changing trip for me. I got to see a whole other way that people live life. It really opened my eyes and made me EVEN MORE eager to learn German and to adopt a more frugal lifestyle.
My experience with traveling to a foreign nation, in the form of a blog.
Going on that trip was the best thing I have done in my life. I learned so much, and experienced many different things, such as food, culture, and people. It was a great opportunity for me, and I highly advise others to travel as well. You will not be disappointed.
I recommend this or a similar trip for any future paleontologists. I have since been to the Field Museum in Chicago and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and am pleased to have visited all the major paleontological museums in North America.
I hope you have fun on your trips, too!
This is my submission to the young travel writer scholarship
My trip to South Africa transformed my life. I grew closer to my best friend, as well as experience a culture very different from my own. As a result, my knowledge of the world has grown.
I quite enjoy I can feel the passion.
I hope you enjoy the lessons i learned over seas in Spain! I know I will take them with me as I move forward in life. Thank you for reading!
-Rebecca Krivitsky
enjoy my story, i pray it will reveal a new cultural avenue while still providing a humorous tale
This trip was truly life changing. It was the first time I realized that there is a whole other world outside the United States!
Thank you very much for your post! I love it very much! I will bring my family to Florida soon!
Thanks and support
Here is the website documenting my trip: http://madisongoestonewyork.blog.com/
My time in El Salvador changed my life. It is my dream that one day I will be able to return there. I can honestly tell you that my love for the people in El Salvador has remained with me. And I hope the best for that nation.
The summer of my sophmore year in high school I spent a week in El Salvador. This one week changed my life. As I volunteered in El Salvador I gained an amazing view of different cultures and life styles. I developed a love for El Salvador and its people. And my memories there will remain with me through out my life. It is my dream that one day I will be able to return their and give more of my time to those amazing people.
My freshman year of high school I spent a week of my summer in El Salvador. It was a remarkable week that literally changed my outlook on life. I have a huge heart for the people of El Salvador and the country itself. It is my dream that one day I will be able to go back.
My amazing trip
It was definitely a trip to remember that I'd do any day! 🙂
A trip to remember that I'd do again any day
It was a trip to remember. Every spect of it was interesting and something I would do again!
I enjoy traviling with my family and creating new memories.
I enjoy traviling and spending time with my family.
– By Ciara Bri'd Frisbie
Thank you for reading my essay.
-Nathan Shaw
Thank you for taking the time to read my essay I really appreciate it.
-Nathan Shaw.
This trip was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. From the Great Wall to the hospitals of Beijing, I learned so much about myself and other cultures.
I just love traveling. Disney World is my favourite destination. Above all 10 sposts are my favourite. I would love to visit all that destination.
Reading this story has been a stroll down memory lane. I stayed at the Diplomat as a little girl in the 1970's, and still remember how impressed I was with it. So glad to hear that the resort has bounced back to its original glory.
I am very glad to know that Disney Cruise Line is taking health so seriously, yet making cleanliness palatable for kids. These suggestions are also great for air travel, another germy breeding ground. Thanks for the info!
My family loves Cancun, and we have had good stays at the Oasis and the Sol Melia and the Sheraton too. Nice to see a new list of recommendations from you. Thanks
This is a really fun outing, but if you can't get out to the countryside, just visit one of those urban tree sellers. A lot of them in the northeast are staffed by college kids from Canada, who take a break, get into a rental trailer and drive it south, then re-sell trees they have bought on consignment to pay for the next semester.
I always ask (nicely) and I always get (with a smile), the extra boughs that they take off to make the trees look even all around. With some ribbon, maybe the wire from a coat hanger and lots of creativity, it's easy to get the kids helping you turn old boughts into beautiful wreaths for around the house.
Love the photos in this article!
Thanks for having this contest; my family loves Snowmass and it would be great to go back there. We took our son when he was about 7 and it was a great learning adventure for all of us. The instructors are terrific and we had fun, but it's not something we could afford to do right now.
Thanks for giving us another chance to go back!
When Jean Carlisle of Menomonie, Wisconsin heard she won a family of four Galapagos Adventure Cruise, she wrote us:
"YES YES YES!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY DREAM DREAM DREAM VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN you tell I’m excited??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"A Galapagos vacation has always been on my DREAM list!!…add it to a cruise vacation makes it even more special. I accept!!!"
Jean explained that she'd enjoyed playing along the scavenger hunt but was anxious about the random drawing for a winner.
"I didn’t sleep well last night because I was so excited!! LOL I entered the contest because I had seen many publications and shows on national geographic on the Galapagos Islands and always thought that would be a place I’d like to visit. I was first drawn to the beautiful pictures on the website and when I saw the contest, I knew that I just had to enter and would love to win!
"I’d like to thank TakingtheKids.com, TravelingMom.com and Family Travel Forum for this once in a life opportunity!! We are excited to make arrangements and show off photos when we return!"
So glad it's helpful to you with your teens, I've already given the Primland brochure to my own mom and her girlfriend who want to tour the Blue Ridge Parkway and look at the Appalachian handcrafts. This is a great base for lots of exploration. If you go, I know you'll enjoy it!
This sounds like a real find and perfect for my own family. I ma always looking for resorts that will work as destinations with lots to do for my two teens, and Primland sounds excellent. Thanks for spreading the word!
Thanks so much for sharing your dreams about the Galapagos; that's the way we all felt when we learned that the terrific Lindblad team wanted to work on this project. so excited to know that someone's dream will reallyl come true! And a 6th grader is the perfect travel companion.
Don't forget to post your a link to your comment here :
http://www.travelingmom.com/freebies/contests/3917-galapagos-giveaway-contest-entries.html
so you're sure to be recorded as an entry into the grand prize drawing. Hope to see you on Twitter too @familytravel4um @travelingmoms @takingthekids @LindbladEXP
If there are no comments on our blog, does this mean that our blog has been rejected, or that it has not been reviewed yet? thanks!
As noted, thanks to your enthusiasm, there are several thousand posts to read, so the judges will be done by mid October. Check back after that to see your status!
I tried following the steps above for finding out about the scholarship judging, but I'm still lost. Does it show up at the bottom of your blog? Or is it just off to the side when you have the option of clicking on your blog? Like, is it next to the name of your blog, the date it was published and then the word scholarship with either a yes or no? Thanks!
Crystal – you get an email