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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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…
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…
Disneyland California: 20 Tips to Make the Most of your Visit
20 Disneyland, California Tips. A trip to Disneyland came be a wonderful experience at any age. It’s much more manageable than WDW. Here’s my tips and suggestions to make the most of a trip to Disneyland. Disneyland Tips: When to Visit. Where to Stay. 1. Visit Week Days and non-Holidays to avoid the crowds. We…
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…
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…
Live Your Dream
Do you Dream of Traveling with your Family? It’s time to Live Your Dream. Mike, my husband, taught me a lot about life through our travel journeys and in general. So, as we celebrate 14 adventurous years of marriage including visits to 35 countries (some visited several times), a handful of other nations (not deemed countries by the UN), and 22…
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…
15 days Traveling with only carry on luggage
Traveling with only carry on luggage Before kids, Mike and I often traveled with only our carry on roller suitcases and a boarding bag each. After kids we were up to 2 large suitcases often filling one with all the baby essentials and one with all our clothes. As time went on we got down to 1 suitcase…