Every year we take a family vacation.  There are 15 of us total.  Yes, at times vacations are trying, especially when traveling with your family.  However, this years vacation topped the cake!We selected the Crown Paradise Hotel in Cancun, Mexico.  We made our selection based on the 5 out of 6 Apple rating by Apple Vacations and the hotels advertising of the Kids Club. ...

I was told the best time to Vacation at Disney World was just after Thanksgiving, So I called our travel agent and made our reservations for Nov. 29, 2007 to Dec. 05, 2007. We included our 6 night stay at the Movies Theme Hotel at Disney World. It was the less expensive of the hotels. Afterall, we were only going to spend time in the room to lay our heads to sleep and shower. I didn't want ...

If you want a great family vacation home, without the costs of ownership, consider Sea Ranch. With its architecturally sensitive design, award winning Robert Muir Graves golf course, stunning views and family friendly atmosphere, you have a place that's hard to resist.Sea Ranch is located just south of Anchor Bay/Gualala on the Northern California coast. It boasts a private landing str...

I have lived in Southeastern Ohio all of my life.  I use to live 6 miles from Salt Fork State Park.  Now, I live about an hour away from it.  This is a beautiful place, and it is nessled in senic Guernsey County. It has a lake, a golf course, marina, and beautiful scenery which makes it a great place for a vacation.  One of the best features of Salt Fork State Park, apart fr...

If you value foot trails and want to help build and maintain them, with great supervision and fun thrown in, then these are the vacations for you!The American Hiking Society (AHS) is the only national organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of hiking trails.  Each year they put together a great package of trips knows as Volunteer Vacations.  I have participated in one o...

We used Northwest Airlines to book a vacation which include our airfare and car rental. We traveled from Detroit to Orlando.  After doing several searches we found our best deal on Northwest Airlines own online website.  I found the  website to be very easy to navigate, and if I had any questions there were several online helps to answer the questions.  We received conf...

I am reviewing Vacation.  It is an expansion pack for the PC game Sims 1.  Sims 1 is a computer game that has little people that you are in charge of. You need to have the game Sims 1 installed on your computer in order to use this expansion pack. Playing Sims can get boring. You want your Sims to go to new places and do new things. Now they can go on Vacation! The nice thing abo...

If you are a fan of visual comedy this movie is for you.  I am not sure what I think of this movie.  I watched it tonight and not knowing anything about it as I started to watch it I thought "how unusual".  But as the movie went on it got to be quit funny.  The whole story is about Mr Beans(aka Rowan Atkinson) who wins a vacation to the beach in France but as he st...

I am a Disney Freak! I love anything Disney, but most of all, I love planning our Disney vacations. Even though we aren't taking a Disney vacation this year, I had Disney send me the 2008 Vacation Planning DVD (satisfies my Disney fix). When we received the DVD, we discovered that even though the case was different (the 2007 case was nicer!!), it was basically the same DVD as the 2007 ...

Hey this was a great vacation to China. It was great because we went to so many places. The cost of the entire round trip was about $10000. However much it seems to be, it actually isn't because the trip was so much fun. Our family is a family of five. We went to Beijing and other great cities in China. We went to the forbidden city, the summer palace, and climbed to the end of the great wa...

Wow!  A great family vacation for $599 per person!  The $599 includes airfare, hotel accomodations, all meals and drinks including 24 hour room service, and transfers from the hotel from the airport ---to a variety of destinations.  It can't be beat!  Apple Vacations does a great job in setting up a wonderful vacation whether for couples or for entire family.  The h...

Recently I requested a sample of Vacations Magazine to have some idea of a future family vacation that we are planning. This is something that can be considered a luxury but is good to rest from the daily routine and have some fun. The Vacations Magazine is a great option to other pricy travel magazines. I was expecting an almost all advertisement magazine, but this was not the case. It has g...

The best time of year to travel to Gatlinburg, Tennessee is in the fall.   This is when the Fall Festival is.   Pumpkins, gourds, scarecrows, and more are ALL over the city in every nook and cranny.   Then, of course, nature itself puts on its own elegant show with the turning of the leaves and the cool crisp air in the mountains.    I love it. ...

Lots of people dream of going to Disney World. Most people think it to be a very pricey vacation. Not true at all. I recently took 3 adults, 1 child(ages 3-9) and an infant for a total cost of $2650. That included park tickets, with a park hopper option(can jump from 1 park to the other on the same day) and a water park option(we could have gone to the water parks for up to 6 days with this tic...

This film, made in 1983, tells the story of the Griswald's family cross country trip to Wally World Amusement Park. This was the first of the national lampoon's movies and stars Chevy Chase as the father, Beverly D'Angelo as the mother, and Anthony Michael Hall (The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles) as son Rusty. The movie incorporates the usual comedic instances that national lampoons mo...

National Lampoon's Vacation (20th Anniversary DVD) is the classic comdey starring the unlucky Griswold Family, headed by Chevy Chase (Fletch, Caddyshack) as Clarke Griswold, the father who wants his family to have the ideal trip to Wallyworld, a theme park dedicated to an animated Moose.  They have several mishaps on their way across the country, and after they get to their destination...

We went to the Grand Palladium Resort in Riveira Maya for our honeymoon. It is a resort that has an adult only section and the whole place is all-inclusive. We stayed for 7 days. Our room was a Mayan Cabana Suite. This is by far the cleanest place I have ever been to. Ther wasnt a blade of grass unkept in the whole resort. The food was awesome. We never got sick once. There was many activities ...

When I was adolescent my mother bought an apartment in Rio de Janeiro for we will walk whenever we want. I simply adored, therefore in spite of the violence we were never assaulted and we always walked a lot for there. Rio de Janeiro is a fascinating and beautiful city!The places are more beautiful than I had already seen. Whenever we traveled to Rio de Janeiro to go to places, like Cristo Rede...

  We almost missed our plane going to Bermuda and wished we had.  We went for 5 nights and strongly considered leaving early.  To be fair, we went the first week in January.  A friend of mine had gone 2 weeks before us and had beautiful weather.  It was freezing cold when we were there.  The entire time we were there, all of the locals kept telling us that they can...

Maybe you don't think of golf when you think of Hawaii, but you really should.  This resort in Hawaii on the Big Island, has two beautiful golf courses. Rates vary. It will cost you $130 if you are a guest at the resort.  If you are not staying at the resort it will cost you $195.00.  Expensive yes, but you are in Hawaii after all! The first one I played at was called th...