Best Family Getaways 2014
On every trip, try something new; come back knowing you did something you werent willing to try before, tweeted Wendy Perrin, TripAdvisors Travel Advocate and a mom of two.
Its a travel motto she shared in our recent family travel Twitter chat (#TL_Chat), and its one that wed wholeheartedly retweet. After all, todays best family trips are thrill rides of adventure, immersive cultural exchanges, and transcendent bonding opportunities with furry new friends. Theyre opportunities to openand blowthe minds of your offspring, while creating memories theyll want to recount to future generations.
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If you can imagine swinging through a canopy of trees in Costa Rica, your youngest child squealing with pleasure right behind you; or seeing your bookish son mesmerized as he wanders the ancient Greek ruins hed seen only in the pages of his history textbooks; or shearing sheep with a fourth-generation New Zealander farmer, then youve officially outgrown your parents version of a family-friendly vacation. And these trips are for you.
The following family getaways have been tested by travelers we at Travel + Leisure know and trust and who hit the road more often than most CEOsonly with a significantly younger entourage in tow.
Whether youre 55 going on 5 or the other way around, these family vacation ideas will get the kids as pumped as the parents for some quality time together.
And if things dont go quite as planned, we recommend adopting another parents family travel motto: as Amy Tara Koch tweeted, This is not a nightmareit is an adventure!
