Check out my latest piece for the Huffington Post! It’s all about deciding whether a hotel is the right accommodation for your family while traveling. Enjoy!
Family Travel Inspiration
It is so nice to find someone that has travel values like your own. Often people are nervous about family travel and apprehensive about heading to Europe instead of their yearly trip to Disney. If you have not traveled together as a family, perhaps 2017 is the year. Why is family travel important? Christine, from Tapped out Travellers, has a great piece where she asks several travel bloggers questions about family travel to help disseminate some valuable information regarding traveling with kids and to help dispel preconceived notions of what it is like to travel as a family.
Royal Sonesta Boston
What an amazing location for of beautiful hotel! Located in Cambridge, MA, on the banks of the Charles, the Royal Sonesta is very close to Fenway Park and Harvard Square. It is also conveniently located just around the corner from the Museum of Science. This family-friendly hotel lets you explore Boston and then come back to a place where you’ll feel like you’re home.
Double Tree by Hilton, Boston North Shore/CoCo Keys
If your family is looking for something unique to do this winter, I’ve got the perfect spot for you. Water park, restaurants, pool, fitness center, and family friendly hotel all in one? Absolutely. Located on the North Shore, just 19 miles from downtown Boston, the Double Tree by Hilton, Boston North Shore, features the CoCo Keys water park. It offers a great destination for exploring the city and then heading back to the hotel for even more fun.
Click here to read my full review of this fun destination.
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Top 10 Things to Do in NYC with Kids
New York City is one of most perfect destinations for families. You can never run out of things to do and there is something fun for all members of the family. As a born and raised New Yorker, NYC holds my heart! The following are my Top 10 Things to Do in NYC with Kids:
1. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Every time we travel there we make it our first stop. This museum has the best dinosaur exhibits of any museums we’ve been to. Our favorite sections are: Hall of Ocean Life, Asian Mammals, Hall of Asian Peoples, African Mammals, and African Peoples.
10 New England Spa Resorts I Must Visit!
I have a feeling there are many ladies out there making their Christmas lists because I’ve had several people email me this week asking for recommendations for spa resorts in New England. If you know me, you know there’s almost NOTHING I like better than a relaxing spa treatment, and especially when it is at a fabulous resort. The following are 10 spa resorts I’ve been dying to try in New England. Santa, if you’re reading this, they are all on my list and I haven’t been naughty!
Ios, Greece
While in Santorini, we had one night to slip away for some time alone. Although Mykonos was my first choice, the distance from our island would eat away at our time so we decided to go to the small island of Ios. My only apprehension was that Ios is known as the party island of the Greek Isles and hundreds of 20-year-olds flock to the island to party the night away. Being that we were celebrating my 40th, it was the opposite of what I was looking for. I was happy to find that these partiers spend the entire day sleeping off their hangovers and the island would be all ours!
Read about our night away HERE.
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10 Ways to Keep Travel Memories
Whenever my family returns from vacation, I like to surround us with memories we’ve made on our trip. Souvenirs are great, but I’m not going to put salt and pepper shakers of the Eiffel Tower on my kitchen table. So instead of displaying your “My mom went to Italy and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” souvenir, take a look at these creative ways to display memories from your travels.