Family friendly vacations.

[Aens]

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Cruises are great, but haven't been on one in a very long time. There are lots of kid friendly cruises with lots of activities. Doesn't need to be Disney. Floating all-inclusives really. I'm usually projectile vomiting on even ferries but never got sick on a cruise liner. Even on a 60 tonner doing Alaska.

 

[nakkers]

Age of kids? Sun and fun, we’ve done Riviera de Maya and did some excursions like swim in a Cenotes as well as swim with the dolphins and catarham boat tour taking us to a reef to snorkel etc. Great memories and reasonable cost. Bartered a lot and kids had fun being included in making deals from everything from pictures of the excursions to souvenir purchases.

We also stayed in Canmore AB in May (around Mother’s Day) as a base and had a rental jeep and explored Banff and surrounding areas. Sulpher Mountain, Johnson Canyon, Lussier Natural Hot Springs in BC and we toured up to Jasper etc.

We lucked out with good weather and toured around in the jeep with the roof panels removed and the kids loved it. Wife was less impressed but, had fun because the kids were over joyed. During the drive to Lussier Hot Springs in BC, plenty of wild life such as black bears, mountain goats, Elk.

The hotel had a pool and hot tub and we had a blue tooth speaker with everyone putting songs in queue. It was fun.

We try to do trips outside the normal times like March break. Don’t mind yanking kids from school and having some homework to do on the airplane or downtime at the hotel etc. and it’s simply cheaper and less crowded.

We’ve done Canmore twice. May as well as December. Spending vacation funds in Canada and exploring our own country.


We have also done the DR and it’s great too. Kids love the pool and dancing and the evening shows.

The kids were pre teen to teens so, they were independent and had the ability to entertain themselves without much supervision. They played the ping pong table at night while we were in bed and drank soda and ate pizza.

Have to admit, the wife is the events coordinator and I’m just the fella that is always up to do something and agreeable to the first suggestion.

 

[Aens]

Have to admit, the wife is the events coordinator and I’m just the fella that is always up to do something and agreeable to the first suggestion.

Isn't that like saying road trips are easy when you pull no driving shifts?

I remember my parents doing the cross Canada tourism stuff when I was really young. Tour guide needed like in Nakker's case, but the memories stayed. So many times in adulthood, especially as a motorcyclist, where conversation will steer to places you've been and I'm truly thankful for having seen and experienced so much. It's really hard as an adult to spend vacations on high stress sight seeing or tourist traps but as a kid, you only remember the good stuff!

 

[nakkers]

No doubt!

We also did a road trip with 3 kids (all boys) from St Catharines to base at Cocagne New Brunswick. Random stops, road snacks, road side stop to strip to our undies and take a dip in the ocean which happened to be warmer than expected!

Kids still talk about it to this day. The kids and I collected Quahaug Clams out of the mud near the cottage we stayed at. Picked up some lobster right off an incoming boat (a friend knew the captain) and kids couldn’t believe we could hold them, see them and then bring them back to the cottage and cook them up! They didn’t find lobster appealing but, once we made some lobster rolls from fresh bread at a local bakery and said friend recipe, they really enjoyed that! And they laughed at me eating our “catch” of clams.

The games we play during the drive, licence plate games etc.

And big fires and lots of laughs.

And we didn’t get to Nova Scotia. Only PEI for a day and a tour of NB, Shediac, Grand Falls, Hopewell Rocks, etc.

 

[Baggsy]

Boys really liked Turks and Caicos, the eleventh Province. I think we were at a Beaches all inclusive. What sort of activities is the family into? Scuba diving and snorkeling was big there, as well as food camp. Boys would go to one restaurant, have a meal, and then have a different meal at a second in lieu of dessert, all inclusive.

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