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Best Sites for Vacation Packages – Top Travel Deals

We are often asked how to save money with vacation deals, so we are sharing our favorite sites for discount travel booking. As a network of frequent traveling parents, we do a...

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The bow of the Holland America Ship, Volendam, at port in New York City.
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A Seafood Feast Aboard Holland America Line

It’s not every day I can leave my desk and be transported by lunch to an elegant world across the sea.  But that’s what my recent tour and seafood feast aboard the Holland...

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Teen And Family Volunteer Vacation Opportunities

Family volunteer vacations, once known as voluntourism, are back in action as the global pandemic comes under control. From community service to building homes, environmental research...

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Sustainable Travel: 8 Ways To Travel Responsibly As A Family

Sustainable travel and ecotourism were always hot topics around Earth Day. But, when the pandemic put the world on pause and we watched our environment begin to heal itself, sustainable...

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Native American style boat is rowed close to the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska as part of a Cunard Line adventure.
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What Is Wave Season and How Can You Take Advantage of It

Ready to ride during Wave Season? No, not a surf lesson. We’re talking about Wave Season, the period from January through March when you will find some of the...

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Selfie station for moon walkers at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum.
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50 Cosmic Ways To Celebrate Space

July 20, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing when Commander Neil Armstrong took his “first step for man, giant leap for mankind.” It was a huge achievement for 1969 – meeting...

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The 10 Best Family Activities in Sydney, Australia

Sydney is a seaside city that’s loaded with family-friendly activities. Beautiful beaches and one of the world’s most stunning natural harbors combine with big city verve to hit all the right vacation...

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Chart of the economic impact of business travel on the U.S. economy prepared by the Global Business Travel Assocation. Graphic c. GBTA
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Making Travel Sustainable

Travel close to home, stay longer, and don’t go at all are key takeaways from ITB Berlin on how to make tourism sustainable.

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A Journey to the Heart of Australia – the One and Only Ayers Rock (Uluru)

It was late June and my hubby and I were still undecided as to where to spend our winter holiday, but we had our hearts set on an adventure -– we just didn’t know how tremendous of an adventure it...

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5 top tips for an unforgettable multi-gen holiday

Taking your whole family on holiday is not an easy task to pull off, and making everyone happy on said holiday is just as impossible. When the age gaps are so big everyone tends to disagree with each...

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Australia’s Outback By Train

The classic train journey aboard The Ghan between Adelaide and Darwin reveals how immense, how vast, how achingly, stunningly wide and endless is the Australian desert.Flying by plane...

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Nemo’s World

Come aboard as three generations cruise along Australia's Great Barrier Reef looking for "Nemo" and his undersea friends -- and find them.“Can we visit Nemo again?” asked my eldest son as...

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Meet Melbourne, Australia’s Capital of Cool

Central Melbourne is filled with a gorgeous and eclectic combination of wide, easily walkable boulevards and narrow, graffiti-covered alleys. This contrast perfectly conveys what makes the city so diverse...

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Hopping Around Adelaide And Kangaroo Island, Australia

We began our Australia journey in the city of Adelaide, located in the province of South Australia. An odd choice, some might think, but...

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The Call Of The Water: Sailing Australia’s Whitsundays

Taking the family sailing into the azure blue of the Whitsunday Islands off Australia's coast is easy; the hard part could be taming them before returning to civilization.Now and then, a shared...

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Top 3 Kid-Friendly Beaches in Sydney

Following my dreams, I moved to Sydney a couple of years ago and ever since, I couldn't help, but fall in love with the city. Its astonishing museums, quirky markets and breath-taking...

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How I spent 10 days in a camper in New Zealand

It is true what they say about New Zealand: "The world in one Country". As European I have seen a lot of countries especially in Europe but also outside, but what amazed me the most was how much...

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Pins on a Map: A Family’s Yearlong Journey Around the World

Pick up this charming memoir by David Boesch and join his family of five on their enlightening one-year, 6-continent, 17-country journey.   The kids (ages 7, 10 and 13) helped select...

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Star Trekking: Kate Plus Eight Go Down Under

Ending 2010 with a bang, reality television star and single mom, Kate Gosselin, packed up her eight children, and headed to New Zealand and Australia for a two week get-a-way.  Sources report...

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Star Trekker: 12:10: Oprah Goes Down Under with Elvis

Oprah Winfrey, the popular talk-show host, billionaire and philanthropist, may not have children to travel with, but she still surrounds herself with family.  She lives with her long-time boyfriend,...

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StarTrekking:12:10: Winfrey Takes Show Down Under to Sydney’s Oprah House

In a surprise announcement that brought incredulous delight to audience members at the popular "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Ms. O herself told her fans that they would all be going to Australia this Christmas...

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Getting to the Heart of Australia

  Ask most Americans about Australia, and their minds fill with images of the Sydney Opera House, beaches,...

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Club Crocodile Resort, Whitsunday Islands of Australia

Club Crocodile Resort on Long Island, part of the remote Whitsunday island chain off the eastern coast of Australia was a paradise I had never before experienced. Reachable only by...

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By Rail Aboard The Overland: Adelaide To Melbourne Australia

A southern Australia vacation by family-friendly train offers mountains, rivers, kangaroos and a whole lot more, while someone else does the driving. As on many train journeys throughout North...

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Kangaroo Island – the best wildlife place ever !

We flew from Sydney to Adelaide, then drove to the ferry to go to Kangaroo Island. When we got there we went to this place called Seal Bay where we went on a guided walk on this beach with lots of sea...

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Trips, Teddies And Tides in Gippsland

In Australia's Far East, this lovely area of Gippsland is famous for its natural lakes, forests, wildlife and relaxing ambiance.We puttered along the wild shores of South Eastern Australia’s...

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Kid Suites At International Family Resorts

Some popular family hotels and resorts in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia boast large family suites whose decor and amenities have been designed with kids in mind. Between June and September 2009,...

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Exploring Australia: Hawkesbury River Region, New South Wales

The Hawkesbury River

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Australia’s Mysterious Rainforest In Northern Queensland

Sugar plantations, historic sights and colorful vineyards along the Canecutter Way trail make a tour of Northern Queensland a delightful family road trip.With apologies to Shelley: “My name...

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Along The Southeastern Winding Way – Adelaide To Melbourne

Two families with infants explore the natural beauty and coastal villages of southeastern Australia by car, finding serenity in the region's small town pleasures and beauty along the Great Ocean Road. Australia...

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Sydney, Australia Hotels And Resorts

The accommodation choices in the heart of Sydney city are many, so traveling with family does not mean you have to lower your standards....

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Sea World Nara Resort

Imagine sleeping in a marine theme park with dolphins and sea lions to lull the kids to bed and thrill rides to wake them up.Australia's...

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Geelong, Victoria Reinvents Itself As An Australian Gem

Like changing diapers on a bad day, it can be difficult to shake off a reputation. Geelong, the second largest city in Australia's southern state of Victoria has somehow shaken off a boring image and...

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Australia’s Active Beauty

For the thrill of land or air outdoors adventures, Victoria's picturesque Mt. Beauty region in southern Australia is unbeatable.I hardly believed Grandma would want to shoot herself into the...

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Tasmania, Australia’s Northern Wildnerness

The pristine World Heritage forests of Tasmania are perfect for introducing kids to the wonders of wilderness camping.The moment occurs at Cradle Mountain, a beautiful and wild spot in northern...

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From Sydney Around Australia

Fun with the family in Sydney: New South Wales, The Blue Mountains, and the Central Coast As Sydney prepared for her 2000 Olympic Games debut, our family traveled Down Under for a month-long visit....

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Sydney Sojourn, An Urban Australia Adventure

It is the most visited city in Australia: a glowing, eclectic and warm place with easy transport and family activities; welcome to Sydney.Lived in by aborigines for over 40,000...

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Cruising Australia’s South Pacific

A deluxe family cruise with P&O Lines from Sydney, Australia highlights the pirates' lore and pleasures of the South Pacific.Modern travel can make my head spin. Jump on a plane, whiz into...

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Tasmania, Australia’s Gentle South

Like a Champagne diamond hidden under other precious gems in a jewelry box, Tasmania is one of the most intriguing parts of Australia.Tassie, as it is affectionately known, is Australia’s smallest...

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