The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel: Planning, Surviving, and Enjoying Your Vacation Together (Paperback)

by Emily Kaufman (Author)

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Product Description
A vacation has the special power to bring a family closer together— breaking away from familiar routines, allowing time to enjoy each others’ company, and experiencing the world together. All it takes is the right mindset and some planning. The Travel Mom shows you how.

In one invaluable guide, you’ll get a host of ideas for some of the most popular options in family travel—from cruises and all-inclusive resorts to RV camping and extended-family reunions.

The Travel Mom also tackles the sticky realities of family vacations. In a warm, mom-to-mom tone, she gives you tricks and tips you’ll appreciate from the first rainy day, missed flight, or scary look at the travel budget. Simple strategies like packing a customized “boredom bag” with snacks and games can save a long road trip. And her off-the-beaten-track and off-season suggestions are unbeatable to keep things interesting and affordable.

A great resource for busy moms everywhere, The Travel Mom’s Ultimate Book of Family Travel will guarantee their family vacation is worth all the time, money, and emotion they put into it.

About the Author

Emily Kaufman, aka “The Travel Mom,” is the travel contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America. In addition to GMA, she has appeared on The View, Good Day Live, and CNN and is a regular contributor to Women’s Day magazine. Emily spends most of her time traveling the world in search of terrific family vacations with her children, 13-year-old Gabby and 15-year-old Charlie, and her husband, Sid. She resides in Southern California, but basically lives on a plane.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; First Edition edition (January 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767920635
• ISBN-13: 978-0767920636
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,089,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars *Lots* of errors in this book!, August 14, 2006

By	aj - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel: Planning, Surviving, and Enjoying Your Vacation Together (Audio CD)

While there is some good, general, obvious content about planning family travel, there are exentensive factual errors about the actual destinations--stuff that could have easily been verified on the Internet or with a comprehensive travel book. Really sloppy stuff.

Use this to help you plan if you need it, but *not* to research.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I am just glad that I didn't buy it..., March 10, 2007

By	Daniel Waterman (Hill AFB, Utah) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I almost bought this book because I am interested in the topic. Fortunately, I checked the library and they happened to have a copy. Thank goodness for library cards! Honestly, is there anyone who has ever travelled with a kid who doesn't know to bring a "boredom bag" (a bag with crayons and puzzle books) for a long car trip? Want to know a great place to go with kids? Disney World. Who'd have thought?

I am still looking for the recently published book that has some creative locations for family vacations. But unless you've been on the international space station since they invented the internet, this isn't it.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars nothing new here, February 15, 2006

By	Margaret Yang (Ann Arbor, Mi USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anyone with half a brain and a working computer can do all the "research" this author did in an afternoon. There is nothing new here. This book won't teach you anything you need to know about travel with children. I read this book in half an hour and I'm going to recycle it just as quickly.