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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with all re: Antartica. Being stuck on the boat for so long with kids that young sounds like torture. A good friend did Antartica and had terrible seasickness do the violent rocking of the ship. It is not a calm cruise many times. I also believe that many of the Antartica tours have age cutoffs - being 14+. You may have to look into that because 7 is way to young.

We did a safari in South Africa this past summer with the kids and they loved it. Our youngest is 10 and the long days in the jeep were a bit much for her after day 3. The kids LOVED South Africa, though, so definitely consider that. We did Cape Town, coastal towns, Stellanbosch, Kruger and some others over 2 weeks. If you have $60K, you can do some really high end safaris which are lovely, and enjoy the lux resorts in Cape and on the coast.

It's a great spot for families. [/quote]

PP here. Sorry typos re: prior post. There are many. 
I did want to say that at 7 and 9 my kids loved Zion, Grand Canyon, and other national parks. We had a ton of fun hiking at that age through NPS and I'm glad that we've saved some "big" trips for when they were older - SA for one. They got far more out of it. I did a blow out trip to Italy when youngest was 6 and she remembers nothing - except the gelato.

I'm a big fan of traveling with kids but just an FYI on our experience with the ages.[/quote]

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