Planning Your Family Vacation
Posted on | December 3, 2009 | 18 Comments
Many families don’t go on vacation because planning them is simply too stressful and time consuming. If you go about planning your vacation in a systematic way you’ll find that planning your vacation can actually be a lot of fun and will leave the whole family more excited than ever to actually enjoy spending time away from home together. Family vacations don’t have to be a thing of the past; you just need better planning skills.
The first thing that you need to do is decide how much time you have to take off of work and school and other responsibilities and what time of year you’ll be able to do this. This will affect how far you can go and where you will be able to travel to because of weather and other considerations. For instance, if you can only take four days off you couldn’t fly from the US to Australia and back again but you might be able to go to Florida and enjoy the beach as a family.
Vacations and Your Budget
You will also want to think about your budget. When you know how much time you can take off you will then be able to base what you can actually do on how much you are able or want to spend. You may be able to spend three weeks away from home but if you can’t afford to fly to Europe and tour all around the continent than you need to make other plans. You need to be very honest where your budget is concerned so you can enjoy yourself while on your trip instead of worrying about money the whole time. If you are on a small budget remember that you can take a vacation by simply driving a short distance from home and creating some fun for the family.
After you consider how much time you can take away from home and what you can afford you can start to think about what sort of activities are appropriate for your whole family. If everyone in your family is older and capable you might want to think about an adventure type vacation. However, if your kids are still young theme parks, beaches, and camping are great ideas. Remember that your vacation doesn’t have to be fancy, just has to be something that is age and level appropriate for the whole family. If in doubt, consider the youngest person and their capabilities and go with activities that they can do and everyone else will also enjoy.
When you go about the planning process in this order you will be doing it in a successive manner where you build one piece of information on top of the other so that by the time you consider what type of activities you can all do you know where you want to go and you are ready to make your reservations. If you get the whole family involved in planning you might need to take votes or there may be need to be some executive decisions by parents, but overall this is a very straight forward way to plan a family vacation.
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December 3rd, 2009 @ 9:37 am
Check out this site called http://www.cheaphotel-s.com Its search covers 30 over sites with 700,000 hotels.
All the best. Have a nice trip
December 3rd, 2009 @ 9:45 am
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December 3rd, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
February is better. Although Switzerland is wonderful in December it is definitely more expensive to travel around that time with all of the holidays. (Flights, hotel, etc.)
February is just as nice weather-wise and if you plan on going skiing chances are better to have good snow on the ground.
December 3rd, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
Definitely rent a car and drive along the coast of Maine. We did a lot in such a short amount of time. Just being on Route 1 gives you a really scenic picture of the coast and you can pass through a lot of quaint small towns. You can concentrate on the Midcoast and then drive up to Acadia National Park (or vice versa). Visit Camden and enjoy looking out the harbor from the park. We did go hiking (Mount Battie and Monhegan) even with our then 7 month old daughter. We went to see Monhegan island to see what it's like. I'm sure the websites will tell you more. Of course, don't miss the lobster festival.
http://www.mainesmidcoast.com/
http://maineguide.com/region/midcoast/
http://www.therealmaine.com/
and so many others
December 4th, 2009 @ 12:18 am
This site is very good for planning a road trip. It allows for multiple stops.
Indicates mileage, gives directions and maps.
At each place you stop, hotel links are supplied.
http://www.randmcnally.com/
You first need to decide on your route.
Ohio is quite a large state and I'm not sure where your setting out from (I guess you might travel I77; following the Ohio River south is quite pleasant and Wheeling is a very nice city).
Do a net search for accommodation in the areas that interest you.
The best suggestion I can offer you is to buy yourself a Rand McNally (book-size) road atlas.
They have scenic routes and attractions marked.
December 4th, 2009 @ 4:06 am
"Amazing Tours and Travel"
http://www.amazingtoursandtravel.com
on the hotels page, there is a section "7 Night Vacation Resort Certificates" that might help you. No, there are no time share presentations to attend.
http://friendshiptravel.blogspot.com
There are several travel links and travel guides to help you.
December 4th, 2009 @ 9:35 am
We rented a house on the beach last summer. Not a ton to do there, but there's a nice aquarium and you can take the kids on a dolphin watching tour on the sound. I like that it's quiet and not too tourist-y. There's also the Wright Brothers museum in Kitty Hawk where my best friend lives.
December 4th, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
We live on Oahu (Ewa Beach), and have our sister/brother-in-law and another couple (friends-of-the-family) visit together at least once a year. With our two kids, 13 and 19, we're in similar circumstances. And as you can imagine, we have lots of other family and friends visiting all the time.
Yours is a huge question, and would require a huge answer. And it depends on a lot of things like your interests, budget, how long you're here, if you've been here before….
That said, here's what our family and friends do now before they come to visit. We built a personal web page for them just for the questions you're asking, with the best links and things to do in Hawaii, rated and reviewed. That way they could look BEFORE they got here and see what they want to do. It's just grown over the last 3 years, and open to everyone. Our 4-star rated items may be a good place to start for those "don't miss" things. From there, they could see and vote on where to go, even making a rough list of what they want more info about. That helped them and us decide to go the Big Island the second time, then Maui. It's Kauai next. BTW, the web page initially grew based on things they found and asked about, and we just kept adding and reviewing.
The web site's at http://home.hawaii.rr.com/gonebananas. Could go into a longer answer here, but with all the work we put into that page, well, you'll see…it will answer your questions.
Aloha
HarleyDog
December 5th, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
There are several places throughout the Smoky Mountains where you can go mining for gems, but I don't know of any that specifically target gold, though I assume you can find gold in the same streams as gems. Do a quick search for "gem mining in gatlinburg" on your favorite search engine to get a list of local places.
I keep seeing http://www.pigeon-forge-attractions.com/mine.html in my search on the Internet, but you may find better options just driving down one of the highways there. I remember seeing gem mining places all along the highways in the area when I visited there as a kid.
Depending on how large your travel radius around Gatlinburg may be, I do know of one large gold mining shop between Franklin, NC and Dillsboro, NC on Hwy 441, called Gold City. Here's the web address: http://www.goldcityamusement.com/ I used to see it when I traveled from Atlanta to Asheville. That may provide your son exactly what he's looking for, but you'll need to travel a bit to get to it from where you're staying.
Have a fun and safe trip to the Smoky Mountains. It's a wonderful place to visit.
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