LEGOLAND California Hotel Debuts Friends Theme Rooms

  The Legoland Hotel is ready to take your reservations for their newest themed rooms, LEGOLAND Friends. The rooms are inspired by Heartlake City, and aim to offer the experience of spending the night like Emma, Mia, Stephanie, Andrea and Olivia. I toured the Friends floor and rooms, and all I can say is that’s […]

Review of Cars Land at Disney’s California Adventure Park: 5 Things To Know Before You Go!

Whether Walt Disney intended to use Hollywood as a model for his beloved theme parks or not, walking into the newly opened Cars Land at California Adventure Park’s 12-acre attraction, one would think it was his plan all along. Cars Land is based on Disney/Pixar’s 2006 animated film, “Cars.” The children’s movie features two automobiles: […]

Going to San Jose del Cabo – The other side of Cabo

When you think of Cabo, or Los Cabos, you might imagine celebs at the Palmilla Hotel, or the cruise ships lining the coast and shuttling passengers to and from the mainland. In March, Spring Break students take over this sunny coastal town in Baja California, Mexico. A fleet of glass-bottom boats waits to take tourists […]

Euro Trotting With Teens

Once we decided to bite the financial bullet and take a jaunt across the Atlantic to the Old Continent, we discarded any notions of luxury and comfort so we could afford to see as much as we could cram into three weeks. From the outset we decided to visit seven cities in four countries: Rome, Florence and Venice in Italy; Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; Paris, France, London and Oxford in England … And since both of us are in our late 40’s, and our kids 14 and 17, it was also one heck of a Euro-family-fitness challenge Amazing Race style.

FROM DISNEY TO EUROPE – TESTING FAMILY BONDS

I just finished doing the laundry from our family-bonding trip to Disneyland and college visits, and it’s time to pack again! This time we are going to test our renewed family ties by going on a true odyssey clear across the Atlantic: Europe with our teenagers. We’re confident that having spent four days sharing one room and […]