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Our reviews of the top family vacation destinations and trip ideas organized by keywords (Italy, Caribbean, teens, etc) and topic (snowsports, spa, etc) to make your research easier.

Travel Insurance For Families

Travel Insurance For Families

We love travel insurance and won't leave home without it. Since the very first holiday spent battling storms and re-booking missed flights (at great expense), our family has found it essential. It should be for every smart vacation planner, too, particularly when traveling with kids. ...

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Required Documents For Travel With Minors

Required Documents For Travel With Minors

Solo Parents, Grandparents and Guardians can satisfy legal requirements before crossing international borders with minor children by using these Permission to Travel And Children's Consent forms. The Family Travel Forum community has learned the hard way that parents planning family getaways...

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Sleeping Airline Pilot

The Airlines: On Cupcakes, the TSA and Pilot Fatigue

Patrick Smith’s column, Ask the Pilot is almost always an acerbic look at the airline industry with its many foibles and Alice in Wonderland rules and regulations. The good news, Smith reports, is that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)  has now released its new rules on pilot...

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Kids Jumping on Hotel Room Bed

Can You Trust A Babysitter While Traveling?

Can you find (and trust) a babysitter while traveling? It’s not easy or always reassuring.  You're on the road for a family vacation. You've done lots of family-friendly things and now you and your significant other want a night out. Or at least a dinner in the hotel's much...

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Uncontrolled drinking will cost you, me and everyone

Binge drinking costs all of us $2 per drink, states the CDC. That's past the cost of the beverages themselves. Reduced productivity, property and medical problems and the cost of incarceration are just some of the factors. Article source: Binge drinking costs each of us $2 per drink Know what...

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Travel Insurance and Holiday Stress: A Fable

The holiday season can be stressful for most of us, what with all the shopping, cooking, wrapping, and planning to make sure every last detail is just perfect for every member of the family.  When travel arrangements get added to the equation, it’s even more stressful – and more...

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Gun Culture Big in Las Vegas

How do you feel about the press release I just received?  Make you want to spend your vacation in Nevada? "Gun Culture is rife in Las Vegas. Shooting automatic weapons is now the fourth most popular tourist activity in 'Sin City' according to the Las Vegas...

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8 Must-Know Tips For Infant And Toddler Air Travel

8 Must-Know Tips For Infant And Toddler Air Travel

Protect your baby's health and safety in-flight, as well as the sanity of other passengers (and your own!), with these helpful air travel with baby tips. With airlines flying at almost full capacity, long lines at the security checkpoints, and airports suffering from mid-air gridlock, many...

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Passports

Permission To Travel Letters And Why You Need Them

Adults traveling outside the U.S. with children under 18, other than their own, must have a Permission or Consent to Travel Letter from both of the minors' guardians. Did you know that a child departing the United States and other countries, traveling with only one parent, a guardian,...

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Hurricane Season - Need To Know

Hurricane Season - Need To Know

Agitated by the constant hurricane updates on the Weather Channel and other media? Need to answer your kid's questions about hurricanes? Here's some basic scientific information about the scary storms that come with familiar names, and how to weather them. Typically over 300-miles wide...

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