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    Great Wolf Lodge Announces Resort-Wide Expansion Plan

    The Great Wolf Lodge, the popular indoor water park resort chain that we reviewed earlier this year, has announced a resort-wide expansion plan, including new water slides, upgraded beds, indoor mini golf, and bowling.  Here are the highlights: Traverse City, Michigan is getting a brand-new whitewater rafting attraction for families, Ten Paw Alley bowling, and [...]

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    New Legoland Hotel

    New Legoland Hotel Opening in Carlsbad, California

    Like many kids, my son loves Legos. One of his favorite stops during our recent trip to Walt Disney World was the Lego store in Downtown Disney.  He can just sit with his blocks for hours, building things from pictures or his own mind.  So, I was definitely planning to take my two kids to [...]

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    My Travel This Year, By the Numbers…

    Sometimes I’m asked exactly how much I traveled recently.  I logged in to TripIt (I have premium and it tracks all of my travel for me) and checked out my 2012 travel by the numbers.  Here’s all of the travel I did since January: 8 cruise nights, on 2 different cruises 19 total trips 5 [...]

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    Family Travel Then and Now

    Last week, I wrote about my family’s fun road trips to New Hampshire and Canada back in the 70s and 80s.  Remember that giant bunny picture I posted?  Well, 30+ years later, and my daughter and son posed on that very same bunny on our of our trips to Santa’s Village in New Hampshire.  It’s [...]

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    Announcing Our Guide to Best Family Ski Resorts

    Family Travel Magazine is pleased to announced our first annual guide to the best family ski resorts.  Featuring 21 ski resorts all located in the US, the guide was created to help inspire families to travel on a ski vacation. We started skiing as a family back in 2010, and my kids, after just one [...]

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    Hurricane Sandy Flight Cancellations

    Hurricane Sandy Flight Cancellations

    Most of us think of the Atlantic Hurricane season running through very early October, and don’t generally expect to deal a hurricane affecting their late October travel plans.  However, a Hurricane Sandy heads towards the East Coast, many airlines are always posting information about Hurricane Sandy Flight cancellations and delays.  Here’s a list of specific [...]

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    Hilton New York

    Hilton Giveaway on Mom’s Favorite Stuff

    Hilton HHonors, the free rewards program from Hilton, is celebrating 25 years of member loyalty with a 25 Days of Winning sweepstakes from now through October 25, 2012.  I’ve been invited to participate as a member of their blogger panel, and am offering a giveaway of a one-night stay over at Mom’s Favorite Stuff.  So [...]

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    New Fantasyland

    New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World Officially Opens December 6, 2012

    The New Fantasyland is officially opening on December 6, 2012, and on Tuesday, we received a magical invitation in the mail for the preview.  Over the event time from December 5-7, 2012, we’ll be visiting the new Fantasyland, staying at the brand-new Art of Animation resort, and checking out the opening of Splitsville at Downtown [...]

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    Preparing the First Annual Family Travel Magazine Family Ski Guide

    We’re publishing our first annual family ski guide later this month, and we’d love to get your picks included.  This year, we are focused on United States ski destinations.  Let us know your favorite places to ski with your family, and why.  We’d love to include picks from our readers in the guide!

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    Aulani Hawaii

    Disney’s Aulani in Hawaii to Expand

    Back in 2010, I had the opportunity to visit the construction site of Aulani, Disney’s new resort in Hawaii.  Aulani opened for business a year later, and it’s already such a success that they are expanding!  Here are the details from the Aulani website: “Waikolohe Valley will be expanded and will offer more pool experiences [...]

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