Travel advisor work – week of November 24. And a reflection on travel with kids

Welcome to the holiday season. The travel planning never stops!

This week is very busy, as I get clients ready to go to Mexico in one week. They’ll be enjoying sunshine, ocean views and food tasting with Culinary Backstreets. Am confirming hotel stays, flights and transfers. Also working on Greece, Italy and Norway itineraries. Have also found a little gem in Florida on Little Gasparilla Island for a family who likes to truly get away from the crowds and enjoy warmth of sunshine during our long Maine winters.

And my find of the week was roundtrip airfare to Italy the week before Easter! Only $820 round trip which my clients snagged up. They are wise. Now am completing their itinerary with hotels, trains and transfers.

Steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014

Am also thinking about family travel. More specifically, one-on-one travel, parent-child. November and December were the months I took my kids to New York. These one-on-one trips were so wonderful for me. They were still at ages where hotels were magical (they still are to me). We went to see a Broadway show, and toured around the museums and even took a food tour to Brooklyn once. Great memories for me and, I’d like to think, this time expanded their worlds in ways that would pay off 10 years into the future. Freddy (pictured above) loved feeding the pigeons a pretzel. And now has flown off to college on the West Coast. He enjoys plane travel (a lot apparently) and I like to think our early trips planted the desire for exploration and trying new things.

Now is the time to plan for your one-on-one trip with your kid – it can be a “staycation” two hours from home, an adventure a flight away or a taste of Europe in Paris, Madrid or Rome. I’ve done all three with my kids and wish we had time to do it several times over.

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