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[quote=Anonymous]It really depends on how you travel.

A lot of families who can afford it spend a lot of their money on making travel easier, especially with kids. So it's nice resorts with kid clubs and suites for the family, the hotel where they have status (which means chain, even if high end), first class flights, hired cars instead of cabs, etc. That's all very nice if you are an adult on vacation, especially if you have children and want to keep everyone happy and calm. But it's not character building.

Travel is character building and mind-broadening when it's hard. It can be hard and fun, but it has to be a little bit hard. Actual language barriers, getting around on public transportation in a city you've never set foot in, piling the family into a tiny double hotel room in Paris where the youngest has to sleep on a cot that gets wedged between the two beds in such away that there is literally nowhere to walk. Character!

(BTW I love resorts and easy travel, I love using vacation to just unplug and stop thinking. Not a judgment. But taking your kid to lots of beach resorts or staying in Hiltons all over the world will not broaden their minds.)[/quote]

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