Do you make travel plan around the kid’s age & interest?

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We normally plan destination around kid’s age & interest or states that have many kid/family activities to do. And, it means mostly like amusement park, carnival, zoo, aquarium etc and San Diego/Florida/California are on our top choice.

I know of two families with young kids traveling to other states not for Disney, zoo, aquarium etc, but they go for nature park, cruise, city walk & scenery & walking/hiking/fishing route. Well, how do you decide where to go & travel? So, is it odd for us always entertain kid interests, and forgone adult’s interests? DH misses the single life going to places that he wants which are mostly none of kid places or activities, but he does not mind doing what other two families travel plan which sounds more exciting and new to him. They are more adultery, he says.

I don’t mind either, but my kids of course prefer kids places without any complaining of Boring or too Exhausting….

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What is the age of the kids? That makes a difference. A 3-4 year old needs more child accommodations than an 8-11 YO. As they get older it’s up to you, the parents, to expose them to new things and experiences. It

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There's kid stuff to do everywhere. I pick a place that has the best deal or a place I want to go, and then we kind of fall backwards into finding kid activities that are around.

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We decide where we as adults want to go, but then look for some kid activities there. We’ve always found things for kids to do, and if it’s running around a piazza at night tossing a ball back and forth. Our kids have always been sightseeing with us and while they do complain sometimes, it’s never been a big deal.

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We don’t go places for carnivals, amusement parks and zoos because we could get those staying at home, at least within a 1-2 hour drive. We do vacations where we’ll be outdoors 80% of the time. That includes San Diego or other beach vacations, and national parks. We plan to save the big ticket locations for when our youngest is 8+.

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Anonymous wrote:We decide where we as adults want to go, but then look for some kid activities there. We’ve always found things for kids to do, and if it’s running around a piazza at night tossing a ball back and forth. Our kids have always been sightseeing with us and while they do complain sometimes, it’s never been a big deal.

This is our approach too. We decide where we want to go and make it fun for the kids.

We do not do full on kids vacations like Disney because I have zero desire to go to Disney. A lot of our vacations are active vacations to national parks where we make out kids hike. They don't always love it but do enjoy the time outside and feeling of accomplishment when they compete a tough hike. We rewards them after the hike with trips into the town to shop/eat ice cream.

We do day trips to amusement parks, but would never make an entire vacation out of it.

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Anonymous wrote:We decide where we as adults want to go, but then look for some kid activities there. We’ve always found things for kids to do, and if it’s running around a piazza at night tossing a ball back and forth. Our kids have always been sightseeing with us and while they do complain sometimes, it’s never been a big deal.

Yup this sounds about right. The science museum in Paris is really fun FYI.

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Adultery?

I guarantee you can find something that your husband would enjoy that you can make fun for your kids. I think you should have him do the planning for your next trip. TBH that is kind of what we do. DH tells me what kind of thing he would like to do because I'm up for anything, and we go from there.

We have gone national parks, Iceland, Costa Rica, skiing, Boston to visit a friend of his...I can't actually think of anything else. I prefer cities/museums to nature (and seeing my friends of course), but I don't have DH go on those trips because I have more flexibility and it's cringy seeing him trying to force himself to enjoy something he really doesn't enjoy.

We are going to do Disney just for the kids even though we don't want to. I want my kids to experience it when they're still kids. They're 10 and 13 now and still want to go so I better get on that.

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We know people who seem to have a visceral reaction when Disney is mentioned.

I have a good friend who was considering Disney because their kids were aging out and thought they should go at least once. They always travel to places they want to go. I know they did big trips to Hawaii and Asia and Vegas/NYC type trips.

We base our vacations mostly on our kids. Dh goes to a conference or 2 a year. I go on a girls trip with friends once or twice per year.

We usually go to places like Florida, Caribbean, Mexico, California, AZ and we have been to Pennsylvania a lot.

[Anonymous]

Two kids, 8 and 4. We mostly vacation to see friends/family, or else the beach or a lake/cabin within a few hours drive. Dragging a preschooler around to a bunch of museums sounds like pure misery.

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If all of your family/friends are in town, where are the most common places you guys have traveled within US or other countries if you have young kids? So that both kids and adults are entertained.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids, 8 and 4. We mostly vacation to see friends/family, or else the beach or a lake/cabin within a few hours drive. Dragging a preschooler around to a bunch of museums sounds like pure misery.

We have the same age gap, though 3 years younger than you. We plan to do the same types of vacations as you for the next few years. When, if ever, do you plan to do a Disney trip or cultural trips to Europe?

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Anonymous wrote:We normally plan destination around kid’s age & interest or states that have many kid/family activities to do. And, it means mostly like amusement park, carnival, zoo, aquarium etc and San Diego/Florida/California are on our top choice.

I know of two families with young kids traveling to other states not for Disney, zoo, aquarium etc, but they go for nature park, cruise, city walk & scenery & walking/hiking/fishing route. Well, how do you decide where to go & travel? So, is it odd for us always entertain kid interests, and forgone adult’s interests? DH misses the single life going to places that he wants which are mostly none of kid places or activities, but he does not mind doing what other two families travel plan which sounds more exciting and new to him. They are more adultery, he says.

I don’t mind either, but my kids of course prefer kids places without any complaining of Boring or too Exhausting….

Lots of kids like hiking and fishing too--it's not for adults only.

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Anonymous wrote:We decide where we as adults want to go, but then look for some kid activities there. We’ve always found things for kids to do, and if it’s running around a piazza at night tossing a ball back and forth. Our kids have always been sightseeing with us and while they do complain sometimes, it’s never been a big deal.

Same. I’m not waiting for them to turn 18 to travel where I want to go. One concession I always try to make is finding hotels with pools.

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids, 8 and 4. We mostly vacation to see friends/family, or else the beach or a lake/cabin within a few hours drive. Dragging a preschooler around to a bunch of museums sounds like pure misery.

We have the same age gap, though 3 years younger than you. We plan to do the same types of vacations as you for the next few years. When, if ever, do you plan to do a Disney trip or cultural trips to Europe?

Dp, our first trip to Europe was when the kids were 5 and 6. They still say it’s the best vacation we’ve been on. Disney was younger due to grandparents wanting to go.