6 creative ways to save money when you travel with kids
Melissa from The Family Voyage discusses the most common questions received after traveling as a family for two years. Here are some creative money-saving strategies beyond playing the basics.
Top Budget-Friendly Vacation Destinations You Should Visit
For many, traveling offers both an adventure and a stress-relieving experience. Whether you're managing an online business or working as a freelancer, the weight of your everyday stress will wear you down. But traveling can be costly. If you want to get away, but don’t want to break the bank, you might want to consider booking a flight to on of the best vacation destinations - budget-friendly, of course - for this year.
The Best Smartphone Travel Apps
You don't have to be a genius to travel - especially now that technology is getting smarter and better every year. With amazing new automated tools and artificial intelligence on the horizon, travel apps can now make our trips better, faster, and cheaper than ever before.
Chontales Falls
Stunning Costa Rica Waterfalls and Hikes
Costa Rica is famous for beaches, rainforests, and those adorable little smiling sloths. But have you thought about Costa Rica's waterfalls? As a tropical country, Costa Rica sees a lot of rain–about 100 inches per year. In the mountainous regions (hint: where the rivers start) that can jump to 25 feet a year in some places! All that water makes for plenty of crystal clear rivers and some pretty impressive waterfalls.
Taronga Zoo, Sydney
Cheap & Fun Family Vacation Ideas in Australia That Your Kids Will Love
So, you’re traveling to Australia! Lucky you, and your family! Australia is a land of never-ending fun and excitement and has a lot to offer to kids, teens, and adults, too. However, if this is your first time vacationing with children, it can be a little tricky to entertain them and provide the youngsters with fun activities and experiences. Luckily, here’s a little guide that will show you some of the best cheap and fun family vacation ideas.
Downtown Orlando
How to have a hassle-free family trip to Orlando
Often, family vacations can be hard. Saying in small hotels, dealing with all of your luggage, finding things to do that don’t cost a fortune, and getting the entire clan from place to place… all of this can become taxing and challenging. So, we have assembled the following tips and advice to help you make your Orlando vacation less chaotic and more relaxing.
Christmas Tours in England and Scotland
From the glistening, frosted landscapes to bustling Christmas markets on cobbled squares and carols carrying on the breeze, the UK is the ideal place to celebrate this very special time of year. Every destination is dressed with its finest decorations. During your Christmas Holidays in the UK you will make memories for a lifetime and you will bring back home the best traditional Christmas presents. Travelers looking for a different Christmas experience are in for a delicious and visually enchanting treat when visiting the UK from late November until Christmas each year. With so much charm, fantasy, and tradition, a trip to the UK during the Christmas season is bound to inspire awe in any traveler, and luckily there are several tour options available to allow you to make the most of these Christmas-wonder-lands.
Christmas Tours in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Come explore Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, home to imperial palaces and fairy-tale castles, Bavarian villages and Baroque cities, the mysterious Black Forest and the snow-capped Alps. This is storybook Europe, where half-timbered inns painted with festive flowers lean over quiet country roads, and the Gothic spires of castles rise from craggy bluffs above the Rhine River.
The view of the Columbia River Gorge from the Vista House in Corbett, Oregon
The Columbia River Gorge and Hood River, Oregon
Our next destination on our Summer Road Trip was the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. We decided that the town of Hood River would make a great base for our adventures in the area, and it turned out to be a much better destination than we had originally hoped for, as we found vineyards, orchards, waterfalls, and amazing viewpoints around every turn.
Badlands National Park
Beyond Mount Rushmore: Southwestern South Dakota
The area west and south of Rapid City is home to several national and state parks as well as the famous and frequently photographed Mount Rushmore. While Mount Rushmore draws a huge number of visitors every year, visiting this area and skipping the rest of the region would be like swinging through Paris to see the Eiffel Tower and visiting nothing else. The park areas around Mount Rushmore include large tracts of land where Bison roam freely, one of the largest caves in the world, unique geological landscapes not found anywhere else in the world, and fun cultural and historical attractions.