I want to go on a family vacation. I would love to take my kids to Disney and stay on the grounds in one of the cool hotels. Or how about a Caribbean cruise on a decent cruise line? How about just going to Cedar Pointe or Chicago? I am dying to go to Virginia Beach or South Carolina. SOMEWHERE that is affordable and has things for kids that are varied ages to do.
There are some really great deals out there. Rooms or suites in decent hotels and tickets to great destinations for such reasonable rates that even a single income family of a school teacher could afford…
If we only had two kids.
What about getting with the times? In this day and age, there are so many different types of families that it seems borderline familial discrimination to only have specials for the once upon a time, typical nuclear family of the parents and two kids.
Big families are being punished for having big families?
And what about single moms with only one child? Where are travel specials for them?
I’ll wager a bet that Kate gets major deals to take her kids on vacations. Same with the Duggars. But most of us aren’t celebrities with our own reality tv show. And that same most of us aren’t being sponsored to show up at the various vacation spots. In fact, I would go on a limb to say that a large number of us are struggling right now and even the “specials” are out of our financial reach.
But still.
We are having a B’nai Mitzvah in October which is two kids celebrating their Bar or Bat Mitzvah together. My daughter and stepson. Instead of a party, they decided they wanted to go on a family vacation. We did some research and found that, for a family of 7 like ours, it would be more expensive than our B’nai Mitzvah budget. We disappointedly decided, because our options were so scarce and limited with travel, to stick with a party instead.
It’s really a shame.
Everyone is struggling. Families, travel businesses, vacations destinations. It just seems that we can all be helping each other out. Y’know?!
Travel package creator dudes, you have a major untapped market of large families and single parent families that you are leaving out. Get with it.
I was looking at the Disney packages, and unfortunately for the time of year we can go we still can’t afford it and we ARE that traditional family of four WITH two incomes. But you are right. It would be nice if they could make it where you could build your own package.
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I’m 36 and have only been on one “Vacation” in my life. Having your mother-in-law sitting in a hot tub with her arm around your husband…yeah not really a vacation. Especially when the witch wasn’t invited. I have no trouble (knock wood) getting vacation plans. My problem is figuring out a way to actually enjoy them. Maybe you are better off saving the money and the hassle and take a solo or girls trip lol. Me? Antisocial? Who said?
Maybe you should contact some of the travel websites and ask them about this. With all of the steps and blending the bigger family is more common now and they should be able to accommodate you. I also think that with the travel agency being in the toilet now, they would be open to the idea.
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We’ve never taken a family vacation either. I was SO hoping we could manage Disney this year – it’s our 10th wedding anniversary and since we spent our honeymoon at Disney, I think it would be so incredibly awesome to go back 10 years later as a family. But that’s not to be.
They don’t do a good job for any kind of family over 4 members – I checked out the resorts, and almost all of them don’t sleep more than 4. I know lots of families that have more than 2 kids, or who have blended or step families – you’re so right that these travel deals should take larger families into account!
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my girlfriend is always on the lookout for travel deals both local and abroad.;*