Destinations
Big Apple Holidays with the Family
Like many a seasoned traveler, I have long avoided any and all air travel around the Thanksgiving holiday. However, there is always room for an exception–it turns out that if you want to be with your east coast college kids you will do the unthinkable and travel from one coast to another on the busiest…
Read MoreHotel Searches for Sleeps 5 in Non-English or What does “Familienzimmer” Mean?
Part of the reason Sandy and I started compiling this list of hotels so long ago, was because of the difficulty in finding a hotel room that could sleep five in the non-English speaking countries of Europe. The internet was still in its developing stage for travel websites. If a hotel even had a website,…
Read MoreHigh Line Park, Manhattan: Walking the “rails” above Chelsea in NYC.
It is hard to imagine Manhattan without its popular, elevated park: the High Line, which traverses roughly 20 blocks along the western side of the island, but this park has only been open since 2009. Our family visited shortly after the first section opened, at which time it was much shorter and seemingly unknown, as…
Read MoreSummer by the Sea in Llandudno, Wales: Sleeps 5 Hotels
Llandudno, Wales is a quintessential seaside town on the west coast of Great Britain. I have written about it in the past (Llandudno, Wales) as the vacation place of the real Alice who inspired Alice in Wonderland. The website www.visitllandudno.org.uk has more information about Alice, as well as about the many sites and attractions around…
Read MoreMysterious New Orleans and the Not So Mysterious Family of Five
We took our three intrepid teens to New Orleans (“Nawlins”) last summer. Yes, I wrote summer, but we truly lucked out on the weather. We were greeted the first day by sweaty gentlemen in red tutus and leotards—it turns out there was a fun run in support of local charities. Ladies were also sporting red eveningwear,…
Read MoreSee Venice via Google Treks and DK – photos and maps
Imagining Venice: Stunning photos help us visualize our travel plans. I usually purchase a few travel-guide-books, sometimes even used-travel-guide-books to save money. (The landmarks won’t change much year to year, and I use the internet to get updated visitor info.) Often those books have plain pages, or perhaps black and white photos. To help us…
Read MoreSleeps 5 Hotels – Family Friendly Submissions
Dear Sleeps 5 Community – We have had a couple of recent submissions from areas that we do not yet have on our site. But they looked great and we want to pass them along. Emilio Arroyo from the charming La Casa del Puente (Cantabria Mountains in Spain) writes: “We have Family Suites for 3-4…
Read MoreIn Search of Gelato in NYC’s Little Italy
Families still flock to the exuberant micro neighborhood in lower Manhattan known as Little Italy. Some are searching for a cultural heritage, a romantic vestige of New York’s past, good food and or a festive atmosphere. On our last visit our focus was GELATO–the gelato that carries us across the Atlantic and drops our taste…
Read MoreCheap Eats in NYC for the Family
Back again from NYC. I had some success finding inexpensive places to eat (or cheap eating strategies might be a better description), but still found it hard as a tourist to find myself at the right location when hunger struck. “Inexpensive dining” means different things to different folks. When I was in college and down…
Read MorePrague: Summer 2012 with Family of Five
The City of Prague by William Jeffery Prowse I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . Though the latitude’s rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague. The city of “golden spires” has captured…
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