Bonita Springs, Florida Visited January 2020 Airport: Southwest Florida International Airport, Ft Myers Overview The Hyatt Regency is located in Bonita springs about 20 minute Drive from Southwest Florida International Airports. It’s a beautiful resort with a great pool complex, kids activities daily and lots of wild life to spot. It’s a great resort for…
Author: Nicole Sweeney
I am a full time working mom with passion for planning and traveling with my family. I love food, wine, culture, beach destinations and animals. Enjoy smaller towns and villages but recognize the amazing culture that often can be found in larger cities. We have a huge Disney fan in the family and the kids enjoy it too. We prefer mid-range hotels but are happy to save with a clean comfortable budget hotel or splurge on a luxury hotel. I love utilizing travel hacking to help our family travel more. Favorite places I have visited include Hawaii, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. Travel goals include Antarctica to visit my 7th continent. Galapagos and African Safari. Favorite budget trip is Jamaica Holiday Inn All Inclusive Montego Bay.
How Hertz Left Us Stranded and Why It Could Happen to You.
Imagine arriving to your destination at 11:30pm, shuffling your tired kids over to the Rental Car building to grab your rental car, only to find out they don’t have one for you. All rental agencies at the airport are out and their offsite locations are closed. It can happen to anyone and it happened to…
Disneyland and Aulani Combo Trip
Disneyland California and Aulani Resort combo is the perfect vacation. Our family are big Disney fans and Hawaii is one of my favorite places to visit so combing the 2 is pretty much the perfect vacation for us. We have visited Disneyland and Hawaii as a combo vacation 3 times, two included Aulani and 2…
Disneyland, CA: Better than Walt Disney World
There’s many reasons a visit to Disneyland California can be more enjoyable than Walt Disney World. It’s Definitely Worth a Visit.
Montego Bay, Jamaica: Affordable All-Inclusive with kids
Holiday Inn Montego Bay Jamaica Review and Tips Traveled November 2019 Holiday Inn Resort All Inclusive, Montego Bay is a great affordable Jamaica all inclusive for Families. Trip: budget Hotel: budget Flight: moderate Flights:$580 Total with 2 Southwest Companion Passes & 62k SW Miles, for 4 people would have been over $600 per person over Thanksgiving…
Affordable Family Travel Adventures in 2019
As 2019 comes to an end I can’t help but look back at an amazing year of affordable family travel adventures. Thanks to traveling hacking, especially the south west airline companion pass, we had an amazing year including 13 trips from an over night camping safari to our first family trip to Asia. If you’re…
Atlantis, Bahamas: Affordable even with Kids,
traveled : October 2019 Affordable Atlantis Vacation with kids on Paradise Island Bahamas Its possible to have an affordable Atlantis vacation with kids. We made it for our second trip to Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas in 2019 and were lucky enough to be able to afford these 2 trips by utilizing travel hacking. Flights to…
Holiday Shopping on Amazon: My Christmas List
I love Amazon because of their great prices and free shipping. Here’s some deals on items from my holiday shopping list. Scooter Suitcases For older Kids and Adults. I am excited to see the prices of these have dropped as I was expecting to pay closer to $200 for these so it’s almost half the…
Legoland Park, Florida: Review and Tips
We visited in November so the water park was closed for the season and it was only the regular park open. This was true during our first visit several years ago when we visiting during the month of January. We still love Legoland even with out the water park. Tips Use the app to see…
A Traveler’s Holiday Gift Guide
If you are like me, the idea of more toys in the house is overwhelming. It also happens our son’s birthday is 2 weeks before Christmas so we are always trying to find a balance between the kids having exciting things to open at Christmas time and creating an abundance of unnecessary clutter. Here’s some…