What was your best summer vacation with elementary aged kids?
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Anonymous
| Grand Tetons |
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Reviving this thread as I'm planning for summer vacation for 2017 (I'm not the OP).
I have a 9 and 11 year old and would love to do a National Park like Yellowstone/Grand Tetons, or Bryce/Zion/Grand Canyon, or somewhere else within the US for a week. Would love to use Marriott points if possible, too. Name a cool place that you spent a week in, with rough itinerary please! |
Anonymous
| Any beach trip. My kids love the beach and are happy spending an entire week doing nothing but playing on the beach and swimming all day. We went to OBX this year and my kids keep begging to go back. We have done lots of national park trips, but in the end the kids just love the beach. |
Anonymous
I agree. Number three is Northern California |
Anonymous
That's always a fun one to drive to from DC. |
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We did a driving vacation last year in Tennessee (needed to be there for a wedding, so built our vacation around it).
Went to Memphis for a few days, stayed at the Peabody hotel (with the parading ducks), Graceland, Mud Island museum, civil right museum, music, etc etc. it was a fun 3 days. Also went to Gatlinburg. Had ZERO idea this was such a major tourist destination. Plenty to see and do. Then we spent a few days at the end at a mountain resort - Mountain Lake lodge (tip - there is no lake). It was a quiet couple of days there, but we did go zip lining and hiking. Lots of driving, but we saw some fun things. Our next best vacation is just renting a condo/house at the beach. Ocean City Maryland is tacky as hell but fun for kids. Chincoteague VA is cute and charming and the beach is better. |
Anonymous
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1. Montauk
2. NYC 3. Bethany Beach 4. Boston |
Anonymous
Easy for Utah Itinerary Fly into Las Vegas 1)stay St. George Ut 2) stay Springdale UT (Zion) 3) stay Springdale UT (Zion) 4) stay Bryce (Bryce) 5) drive bryce to Grand Canyon 5 hours, stay Grand Canyon 6) grand canyon 7)drive to Las Vegas (5 hours) stay Las Vegas 8) fly out of Las vegas You do notice you are driving 10 hours just to see Grand Canyon for a day. You can save driving time by just visiting the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is open in the summer. I think Grand Canyon is not much fun, but you asked for it. |
Anonymous
| Yeah I might do Grand Canyon with Phoenix and Sedona in one trip, and save the Utah parks for another trip. |
Anonymous
The houses there are expensive though. Would be hard to find within OP's budget. |
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Pittsburgh and environs was a surprisingly fun trip. I think we did something like this:
-- 3 days in Pittsburgh: Pirates game; walk around and see the river and the Fred Rogers statute; Carnegie museum; downtown outdoor market and cool sculptures; there's another cool museum for kids -- 3 days in Seven Springs resort (I think Nemcolin is also close): alpine slides, hiking, stuff like minigolf, etc. |
Anonymous
| Our kid also loved the Caribbean cruise we took with their grandparents. |
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The best vacations are the ones with a mix of activity and relaxation and 2 rooms . For ex., our national parks involved a lot of driving and walking, so we also had days sprinkled in to just hang out at the pool.
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Anonymous
Very fun! Kingsmill is great for kids; have kid's camp, pool, lazy river, and of course, BG. We go every Summer for 4 days. |
Anonymous
Yes, they are! We spent $3800 for a week. Not worth it. Doing hotel next year. |