Traveling with My family
Apart from a couple of times where I have traveled with friends, I have always explored the world with my family. My mom is usually the one who plans the trips, but she is the one who shared her love of travel with me. She told me about all the websites she uses and why she wants to explore each place. She is the one who helped us get over our nausea on planes and got us accustomed to long plane rides and car rides. We have always been a traveling family with each of us being a different kind of traveler, we still have always been able to make it work so that everybody enjoys themselves.
Tips For traveling with family
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best times to travel with family
New Years:
New Years/ New Years Eve is a great time to travel with your family because its a time everybody has off from work, college, school and everyone's spirits are high from Christmas. I feel like during this time the vacations with families should be more about relaxing and doing activities rather than sightseeing and historical education. This time is short so to sight see intensely would just cut the experience. After New Years I feel like a beachy place is perfect. I went to Cancun for New Years and the week after and it was a great break from the cold. We got to do so many water activities and relax and just spend time with the family. Its a great time to just bond and lay and enjoy life. It's good to just enjoy the sun and your family and I feel that on long vacations that are dedicated more to learning and sightseeing you cannot really focus on that. Summer: Now Summer on the other hand is perfect for sightseeing, tourism and learning trips. I have taken so many of these it is hard to count. It is a great time to go to a country and travel around and learn everything about it. Here you have more time to both relax and hit museums and monuments and other must see locations. If you are the type of traveler that really just loves to learn everything about a country and its background and treasures this is your time. In summer of last year I traveled around Italy with my family. We rented a house in Tuscany which was great for relaxing and talking and drinking wine by the fireplace, but we also had a lot of time to go around Italy and visit the famous art museums, cathedrals, and monuments. We were fully immersed in the culture as well as got to quickly see some sights. The only problem with summer family vacations is that when they get a bit lengthy people can get a bit annoyed with eachother especially if there are different kinds of travelers in the family- relaxed traveler and sight-see traveler really tends to butt heads and both will feel like their time is being wasted by doing the others preferred form of travel. Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is a good time to travel with family because everybody is just wanting to be spend time with each other, they have been stressed from the months before and then this mini break comes and it's the perfect time to go someplace with the family and just be thankful to have them and to be able to go on vacations period. It's not a very long vacation so the same rules apply as vacations in New Year, you cant really fully experience a country's culture and history in such a little time. I would recommend something like going skiing in Colorado or to go experience fall in old cities like Georgetown. This way you get to experience the cold or snow and still do some fun activity whether its more active like skiing or more relaxed like visiting old towns. |
Favorite travel agency
Inspirato:
Inspirato is my family's favorite traveling agency because it allows you to rent either peoples houses or condos in hotels for much cheaper prices. The places are always incredible and Inspirato is in charge of doing everything for you. They ask you what food you want and they stock your kitchen. They plan excursions and activities for you based on the vacation you're looking for and they do their best to provide you with a great experience. It is a very client centered company and they have places all over the world that never disappoint you from how wonderful they are.
Inspirato is my family's favorite traveling agency because it allows you to rent either peoples houses or condos in hotels for much cheaper prices. The places are always incredible and Inspirato is in charge of doing everything for you. They ask you what food you want and they stock your kitchen. They plan excursions and activities for you based on the vacation you're looking for and they do their best to provide you with a great experience. It is a very client centered company and they have places all over the world that never disappoint you from how wonderful they are.