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…
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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…
Travel Hacking for Families is Different
Travel Hacking for Families is Different Travel Hacking for families is a little different. This is because while earning points may be similar despite circumstances in the end we all have different needs. The goal is to meet our needs and preferences not change them to meet a strategy. You will often hear about amazing…
How My kids help Pay for Disney
4 Disney Resorts by selling item’s they No longer need. One way to Help you pay for Disney. It was early in 2018 and between Christmas, Birthdays and the kids continued growth, our house had become incredibly cluttered. I was ready to clear it out. Of course, my kids weren’t ready especially my daughter. I decided to…
PRIME Day Deals
There are some great deals going on at Amazon.com for Prime Day with one more day to shop, now is the time to check out the deals and stock up on everything you need for your next trip. You can check out all the Prime Day July 2019 Deals. I highlighted a few of my…
How to Master 1 Night Trips with kids
We mastered 1 Night Trips with Kids I use the term mastered loosely. We are able to do them with more ease than bigger trips. When the kids were babies we would never travel for 1 night it was way too much work for such a short stay. Now we often travel for 1 night…
Use Rakuten/Ebates to Earn MR points for FREE Travel.
Ebates gives you cash back every time you shop the stores you love, on-line. Now with ebates you can earn Member rewards points instead of cash. I love ebates. It’s so easy to use. Just remember to go to ebates before any of your on-line shopping. Don’t forget you can even shop travel sites through…
Welcome to Affordable Family Travel
Affordable Family Travel is Travel Adventures of 2 full-time “Nine to Fivers” with 2 Kids age 6 and 7 years old . Sharing our experiences, tips and ways to travel for less, We hope to inspire families to seek new adventures. Inspire, Afford, Enjoy Family Travel. Inspire I hope to inspire you to travel with…
Frequent Family Travel: 12 trips in 12 months
What I learned as a working parent who traveled 12 trips (over 60 nights) in 12 months. We didn’t set out to travel an average of once a month over a 12-month period. Frequent family travel is something we strive for and it sort of just happened. We LOVE to travel. Balancing home life and travel isn’t easy…
Top 10 Free Summer Fun
There’s tons of this to do in summer for free or cheap that you can do at home or on vacation. Here’s my families top 10 Free (or cheap) Summer Fun. 1.Head to the Beach. Whether it’s the ocean or a lake most kids love splashing in the water and playing in the sand. Some…