Over the past 5 years, my house has been blessed sufficient to take a vacation every year. And every year I am faced with the challenge of putting together a fun, memorable vacation that everybody will love and that is affordable.
When our house was smaller, this process was a limited easier because it seems like the whole world is based on your house size not exceeding Four! Well, we are now a house of 6 and the thorough hotel room with 2 duplicate beds is just not an option; at least not for stays longer than 2 nights. Airfare would eat up more than 1/2 of our budget, food would take up the other ½, and I will not even start on the theme park tickets. So what is a house to do?
Step 1- choose the theme of your vacation: adventure, relaxation, beaches and sun, theme parks, or history and culture. Adventure vacations and sandy beach vacations are by far the most cost-friendly vacation themes.
Adventure vacations contain low-cost outdoor activities such as fishing, hiking, bike riding, and camping. This vacation theme is exquisite for older children.
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Top Adventurous Destinations
Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington
New Paltz, New York
Mount Hood, Oregon
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Park City, Utah
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Yosemite National Park, California
Moab, Utah
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, California
Glacier National Park, Montana
Olympic National Park, Washington,
Hood River, Oregon
Acadia National Park, Maine
Sandy beach vacations are also highly affordable and contain surfable waves, sandcastle building, great dining, and mile long boardwalks. This vacation theme is great for all ages especially babies and toddlers.
Best house Beaches in Us
Coronado Beach, Calif.
Nantucket Island, Mass.
Newport Beach, Calif.
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Panama City Beach, Fla.
Siesta Key, Fla.
Poipu Beach, Hawaii
Duck, N.C.
Hilton Head, S.C.
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
South Padre Island, Texas
Waikiki, Hawaii
Wailea Beach, Hawaii
* If you decree to take a theme park vacation, find out if your bank or employer offers discounted tickets. Avoid purchasing tickets on eBay or Craigslist, unless it is from a dependable wholesaler or broker. Also, many theme parks now offer the convenience of child swap. With child swap, one parent can wait in line with the older children while the other parent goes up the handicap ramp with the smaller children. When the other parent gets off the ride, you swap and get right on the ride without waiting in line again. Genius!
Step 2 - choose your means of transportation: fly, ride the train, or load up the car.
Your most affordable option would be to drive. Even if you find a great deal on air fare, chances are you will still need to rent a car once you land, so cut out the middle man and drive. However, if you do decree the fly and rent a car, go to www.priceline.com where you can 'Name your Price' on airfare and car rentals and save money, many times more than 1/2 the regular price.
Step 3 - choose when to travel: peak or off peak
Of procedure you will get the best deals off peak. Orlando's busy season begins colse to May/June and ends August 10th. I use that as a guide to plan may vacations. Avoid holiday weekends; take the day off the following week and keep that extra money in your pocket.
Step 4 - Accommodations: vacation home, hotel, or condo
Vacation home are exquisite when traveling with a large group. Not only do you get a huge home to hang out in for a week, but you also have the company of other adults and hopefully other children to keep your children busy. Vacation homes, generally, need to be book some months in improve and you have to clean up after yourselves daily. thorough hotel rooms are more facilely ready and exquisite for smaller families. However, parents don't have any privacy and you have to eat out every night, which can fast total up to over 0 just for food. If you are finding for a thorough room, Hotwire or Priceline (Name your Price) are your best options. Some citizen are leery of using these sites because you don't know where you will stay until you have purchased the room. I have used Priceline many, many times and have never been disappointed. With a condo you have the best of both worlds. Parents have a room and the children have a room. Most condos have a full kitchen and you can prepare uncomplicated meals for morning meal and supper rescue you hundreds of dollars. Condos also have a washer and dryer in the unit, exquisite for when limited Katie or Kevin make and big mess. You can also use the washer and dryer to wash all your clothes before leaving development it much easier to unpack when you get home. Icing on the cake, housekeeping is available!
Another option is to take a time share tour; I know it sucks spending 2-3 hours of your day on the tour because it never only takes 90 minutes. But you can get a great 1 or 2 bedroom condo at an predicted rate.
Every house is different and must decree what is most leading for them, location, transportation, entertainment or accommodations. Anyone you choose, spend the most money on what is most leading and skimp on all else. So if you want to go to Hawaii, you will spend the most money on airfare and you will have to skimp on entertainment and accommodations, but at least you made it to Hawaii. Happy Travels!
Fun, Affordable Vacations For Families of All Sizes
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