The Big Schlep: Grandparents’ Tips On Miami, Florida
We hope you'll benefit from what we, a multi-generational family that loves to get together, learned and enjoyed during a recent stay in Miami, Florida. Here are some of our most...
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Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite (Or Come Home With You)
Doc Holiday shares tips on how to avoid getting bedbugs and, if you're unlucky enough to have them in your hotel room, how to get rid of them back home. As you may be aware, bedbugs are making a comeback...
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Save Big On College Visits And Student Travels
I've found that packing smartly, shopping around for flights, and bundling flights and hotels into one efficient travel package make instant savings that can be used for more important student expenses. Parents...
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Souvenir Shopping Savvy
Souvenir crazy? We are. With Americans spending $5 billion on souvenirs annually, we want to share shopping tips that should reduce your family’s chances of buying junk and maximize the odds of bringing...
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Car And Booster Seat Safety
When Child Passenger Safety Week rolls around each September, auto companies and non-profits promote national campaigns to increase safety awareness of car seats and boosters. However, parents know...
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5 Multigenerational Vacation Ideas You Can Afford
Multigenerational travel in all combinations is already enjoyed by 42% of American travelers according to MMGY Global, who are...
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Arrg, Piracy On The Rise: Tips For Smooth Sailing
From the coast of Peru to the South China Sea, acts of piracy have been a fear of cruisers since about 2009, when these incidents were widely reported. How likely is it to happen to your family? Fortunately,...
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Junior Adventurers – As They Grow Guide
Here are some simple and useful guidelines for travel and activity planning with infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, school-age children, and tweens... your own or someone else's.Once adults hit...
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Tropical Flavors Awaken Appetite For Island Adventures
Traveling with family members who are too stubborn or too afraid to experiment with food can spoil any trip. You don't want picky eaters to waste their tropical beach vacation standing in a buffet line....
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Make It Easy: Google Shares Insights and Travel Tools
At the launch this week of an enhanced Google Flights search engine, the team at Google Travel shared some interesting travel trends culled from users’ search...
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Fast Facts For Doing Europe By Rail
Everything you need to know before contemplating a trans-Europe adventure by train, including saving money on the most appropriate passes.Here a few things you should know when planning a family...
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London’s Notting Hill Neighborhood: Economies Of Scale
One family discovers the most comfortable shortcuts to savings over a long weekend in London, a town where the Great Britain Pound weighs heavily.
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Six Easy Safety Tips For Theme Parks
Keep your family safe during your next theme park adventure with these six easy tips.Trips to the theme park are usually on the top of every child's wish list. But when kids make a beeline...
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Making Walt Disney World with Kids Easy
Frommer's Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids is the perfect family vacation companion for that magical kingdom of crowds and confusion.Although not the flashiest guidebook out there,...
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Ten Things To Remember Before You Fly
This past year I've been up in the air on a variety of airlines, and left up in the air -- by air travel, hotel, car rental and computer glitches -- more times than I can ever recall. I hope my...
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Fast Food Nation On Vacation
Although fast food dining is a convenient and quick option on vacation, parents should be aware that very few children's meals at America's most popular chain restaurants meet experts' nutritional...
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Safety First For Learn To Ski Month And All Year Long
January is Learn to Ski Month with many discounts and deals to encourage novices, but this month also includes the ski industry's annual National Safety Awareness Week....
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Family Travel Trends For The Year Ahead
Family Travel is no longer a travel niche; findings from the two Family Travel Conferences held in 2012 prove that this market, overlapping...
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The Best Credit Card And Foreign Exchange Rates For International Travel
Looking for the best credit card with no international fees and the smartest way to exchange currency? Savvy travelers know the challenges and money-saving strategies for managing their vacation dollars...
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Hurricane Season – Need To Know
Agitated by the constant hurricane updates on the Weather Channel and other media? Need to answer your kid's questions about hurricanes? Here's some basic scientific information...
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Trends: Summer Travel By Rail More Popular Than Ever
Summer is the high season for European train travel, but a recent study by Eurail Group proves the multi-country Eurail Pass is popular all year long; in 2011, 451,227 travelers decided to embark...
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How Will Your Family Fly Again?
To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of 9/11/01, FTF editors chose to reprint this open letter sent originally to FTF families on September 24, 2001. Sadly, its advice is still relevant to many. Dear...
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Bus Tours Introduce The World’s Great Cities
Double-decker hop-on, hop-off bus tours can be found all around the world, but have a longer history in Europe than in the US. Imagine a clever guide, a place to rest your feet, great photo opportunities,...
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Have School, Still Travel?
A long-time education insider goes behind the scenes to find out how teachers really feel when you pull kids out of school to travel. Walking down the street one day, I passed a man smoking...
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5 Tips For Big Family Bike Trips
She’s cycled more than 22,000 miles across the Americas. No big deal. Cyclist and mom, Nancy Sathre-Vogel has been on numerous bike trips with her husband and twin boys. She offers...
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U.S. Regulations For Special Groups Crossing U.S. Borders
The latest regulations from U.S. Customs and Border Protection explain some of the exceptions being made for Special Group travel, such as teen and school group tours. U.S. border crossing...
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Rules of the Road
As I've mentioned before, in my profile that I have these three rules that I live by. I feel I should explain them a bit better so you can full understand what I'm all about when I travel. 1)...
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Kids Camps For Children With Special Needs
Family vacations can incorporate supervised overnight camp programs noted in our roundup that are specially designed to be fun for kids with physical and/or mental disabilities. With so many camps to...
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Canada And US Partner To Clarify Border Regulations
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency recently joined efforts to remind travelers of document requirements to travel into both countries.
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Introduce Foreign Foods With Recipes For Picky Eaters
Picky eaters can drive parents crazy. I know one baby raised solely on creamed spinach (imagine those diapers) and a little girl who refuses to eat brown food. One Texan friend could only get her son to...
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Easy To Cook Enchiladas Say Hola! Mexico
Most children have had some introduction to Mexican food, whether it's a visit to Taco Belle or an order of guacamole and chips at the local cantina. Nonetheless, it's hard for families with...
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10 Tips For Planning A European Vacation
Congratulations! Your family is heading out of the country for the next family vacation. You may have waited years for this moment to arrive, patiently watching the kids grow old enough to appreciate a...
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New Secure Flight Procedures Required By TSA
New screening protocols, full body scans and mandatory ID verification at least 72 hours in advance of flights are among new regulations. In response to two packages sent by air freight to...
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Finding Vacations On A Family Or Mom Blog
The Family Blog, Travel Blog, Mom Blog, Baby Blog... These personal journals are a great resource for traveling families, so we recognize some of the best.
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Joy on the Beach, Beach Wheelchair For The Mobility Impaired
Individuals with special needs can have “Joy on the Beach” with a specialized beach wheelchair for the mobility impaired. During...
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Ecotourism: Green Travel With a Purpose
Educational, fun vacations can be responsible, too, when you learn what makes a good eco-destination and how to be a green traveler. Traveling is one of life's great pleasures; seeing natural...
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Packing A Travel Safety Kit
Traveling parents can rest more easily knowing they are prepared for almost anything, in the event something happens to themselves, their children or their destination. With terrorism, mysterious...
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Tips for Europe Touring: Sibling vs. Spouse
Now, I'm sure no one wants to hear all of the funny stories that won't be nearly as amusing to others as it was to us. So, instead, I am going to offer up some advice and tips about traveling...
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Summer Camp Tips for Parents
Planning for your kids' summer? If you are considering day camp or sleep away camp, here are some issues to consider.Planning for your kids' summer? If you are considering day camp or sleep away...
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Jet Lag In Children
Doc Holiday discusses the best ways to adjust to a new time zone for parents and their cranky children. Jet lag, or disruption in sleep and wake cycles with travel across time...
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U.S. Trusted Traveler Programs And WHTI Regulations
The latest regulations from U.S. Customs and Border Protection explain some of the alternatives to expensive passports for international border crossings in the WHTI.U.S. border crossing requirements...
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Cheaper Travel ID Options For Kids At Certain Borders
As many families already know, since January 23, 2007, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) has required all U.S.As many families already know, since January 23, 2007, the...
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Air Travel For U.S. Citizens: Necessary Documents For WHTI Countries
Read on to see if your family can save money on required identification papers when crossing borders between the US and WHTI countries.These regulations concern the Western Hemisphere...
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10 New Air Travel Regulations You Need To Know
Family Travel Forum urges families flying to the U.S. to prepare for new security regulations in place at international airports around the world. Since Northwest Flight 253 was threatened...
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Greening Your Family Travels
Needless to say, we love traveling, but we also love the Earth, and present this guide to cutting down on the carbon emissions produced in your travels... and other tips to living green. I...
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Negotiating Family Airline Travel in the 21st Century
Here are 10 tips on what to bring to make family airline flights fly by Airline travel may be down this year, but there’s still the risk of H1N1 and the added airline expenses associated...
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Keeping Allergies And Asthma in Check
Here are some medically proven allergy prevention tips, designed to help you identify and overcome travel situations likely to aggravate asthma or allergies, and cause problems that can ruin a vacation. Did...
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Pickpockets: Where To Find Them And How To Avoid Them
Thanks to the popular hotel review site, TripAdvisor, we have some fresh thoughts on how to avoid pickpockets, the bane of every traveler's existence. Well, some would say that airport security...
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Parents Away on Business Travel
How do kids feel and what do they do differently when parents travel without them? Find out the stats, plus some tips from road warriors on easing the pain of separation, courtesy of Sheraton Hotels and...
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The Long View: Coping With Carry-On Regulations
FTF's cruising expert examines carry-on regulations and how family sailors can cope with leaving the liquids and gels behind.I haven't willingly checked a bag in 10 years, even for a weeklong...
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No Snow? No Surf? Mountainboard!
Find out how mountainboarding has grown from an extreme trend to a widespread and professionally-recognized sport.Leave it to sports adventure enthusiasts to solve a duel dilemma: How can we snowboard...
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Family Travel: Today A Nightmare, Tomorrow A Memory
How to survive in-laws, missed flights, heatstroke, lost luggage, broken refrigerators and even a hurricane to have the best family vacation ever on Sanibel Island. As editor of a travel newsletter...
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Online Travel Bargains
Short breaks by air and last minute packages - courtesy of the Internet - continue to be strong travel bargains, summer or winter. Since you're reading this story, we know you are comfortable...
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Tropical Climates Demand Medical Precautions
Tips on prevention and simple remedies if anyone in your family succumbs to common ailments while traveling in tropical climates with kids.When traveling with young children to any tropical climate...
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Vegetarian Road Food
Your family's guide to in-the-car fast food and on-the-road dining the meatless way.According to a 2000 Vegetarian Resource Group Roper poll, 2% of children between the ages of 6 and 17-years-old...
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Tourism Industry Works To Protect Children’s Rights
Find out how ECPAT and UNICEF have been working internationally with the tourism industry to curb child sex tourism. When ECPAT...
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Travel Wise with Children
A learning expert shares her strategies for making your travel time with youngsters as fun and educational as possible. My friend Suzann told me a story which illustrates many truths about traveling...
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Making Magic at Museums
Tips for making the museum visit experience extra valuable for childrenIf the idea of another pretend bus, or roomful of blocks, or vague art project makes you shun the local children's museum,...
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How Much Vacation is Enough?
How does vacation time compare in countries throughout the world? Maybe Americans don't want to know! Check out these figures of U.S. workers' annual average vacation time compiled by the...
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