Family Travel Magazine Blog and Reviews

On our recent Marco Island, FL family vacation, we planned to spend most of the time at the beach, soaking up the sun and playing in the Gulf of Mexico. But I didn’t want to spend our entire vacation lying on the beach, so I planned a few afternoon activities.  Our favorite was The Dolphin [...]

Disclosure: We received complimentary tickets to the Garden and all opinions are my own. On our recent family vacation to Marco Island, we decided to take a break from the beach and the ocean and head out toward Naples to the Naples Botanical Garden.  It was a hot afternoon, but we really enjoyed walking around [...]

After three full days of kids’ camp at Smugglers’ Notch, we were ready for some family time by the time we arrived at the Stowe Mountain Lodge.  Luckily, there were loads of activities located right on property that were perfect for our whole family. On Saturday morning, we headed outside the lodge to Spruce Peak [...]

After swimming with the stingrays, snorkeling, riding a semi-submarine, seeking out blue iguanas, holding turtles, and learning about bugs, we were ready for a little relaxation on our last afternoon in the Cayman Islands.  Luckily, our hosts had set up the agenda anticipating this, and our afternoon stop was a three-hour visit to Rum Point [...]

During our press trip to the Cayman Islands, my daughter and I got to experience on of the perks of the Cayman Summer Splash program – the semi-submarine trip that is part of the Cayman Sea School.  Guests who book the Summer Splash program receive the Sea School program for free.   First thing in the [...]

I’m always looking for ways to educate my children during our vacations.  While having fun is definitely our main priority, it’s always good to find destination-specific educational opportunities.  On our press trip to the Cayman Islands, we visited the Blue Iguana Recovery Program – a true model of endangered species recovery. Blue Iguana Recovery Program [...]

Our second family-friendly stop during our Cayman Islands press trip was a visit to the Cayman Turtle Farm.  I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but it ended up being one of our favorite activities on the island.  If you are cruising to the Caymans, it can also be booked as a cruise excursion. Review [...]

On our first full day to the Cayman Islands, we headed out on a boat trip to Stingray City Grand Cayman, a sandbar that attracts stingrays into its waist-high waters.  Visitors arrive from a variety of different ways – tour boats, private boats, and jet skis, but we took a tour boat from Captain Melvin’s, [...]

I’ve heard so much about Colonial Williamsburg, VA,  but it’s not a place I’ve ever visited.  On the Virginia Media Tour I attended several weeks ago, we had the chance to spend a short amount of time touring Colonial Williamsburg.  While I didn’t have a very long time to check things out, one thing I [...]

During my media trip to Virginia, we spend a morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore – a place I hadn’t really heard much about before.  We headed out on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel – one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.  Although the Bridge Tunnel is 20-miles long, we stopped “on” the [...]