Archive for category: Holiday Travel

Traveling with kids always takes more planning than traveling alone or with an adult partner. Even more effort is required when you choose to travel in the winter with kids. Don’t skip that skiing vacation or holiday visits to your extended and faraway family members, though! With some forethought, you can make wintertime travel fun, safe and simple. If you’re traveling by plane, try to get a non-stop flight. This serves two purposes. First, it’s much easier on your kids. You only have to trek through the airport with children, strollers, child safety seats, luggage and all of the other [...]

I just read a report on CNN that many travelers have opted out of flying this Thanksgiving holiday which means that for the 12 day holiday period they expect 37,000 less travelers per day! Sounds like good news to me, but of course they say beware just because there are less people does not mean you will get around easier. Assuming there isn’t any crazy weather I hope we will have a pretty smooth travel day. Always take the first flight out if you are attempting to flying out the day before a holiday. In prior Thanksgivings, when we had [...]

In the words of my favorite “Puss In Boots” HOLY FRIJOLES  – I was just checking on a car rental for Thanksgiving and prices are over $800 for a 4 day rental on a full size car. YIKES! I even checked AAA rates and the prices was the same. Isn’t there some way to save on a rental car over the holidays? Last year we only paid $500 which is the average but $800 – me no like.