If you go to Billund I recommend staying at Lalandia. It’s next to legoland and gives you free access to a large indoor waterpark. You don’t have to rent a car in Billund but it makes everything much easier. Make sure you go to the Lego House not just the park

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Anonymous wrote:Split the travel days up. Fly direct to Frankurt or London, spend a few days there and then fly to CPN. Flights are usually fairly inexpensive between european cities.

I can’t think of anything worse than choosing to spend a few days in Frankfurt.

lol (OP here)- but I like the suggestion of London for a few nights then Scotland or Chunnel to Paris or maybe even a flight to Billund- it’s cheaper than I had anticipated

Anonymous wrote:Split the travel days up. Fly direct to Frankurt or London, spend a few days there and then fly to CPN. Flights are usually fairly inexpensive between european cities.

I can’t think of anything worse than choosing to spend a few days in Frankfurt.

Anonymous wrote:Split the travel days up. Fly direct to Frankurt or London, spend a few days there and then fly to CPN. Flights are usually fairly inexpensive between european cities.

Agree with this. Fly direct to London, stay there for a few days. Book a flight from London to Copenhagen and do the trip that you were hoping to do. On the way home, go back through London. If you don't want to go back into the city, you could do one of the nice big family hotels that are in the Cotswolds or surrounding areas (Estelle Manor, Four Seasons, Beaverbrook, etc).

Based on my own past trips, you could do Boston to Bar Harbor. You probably wouldn't swim even in August (we didn't). Or you could do Quebec and Montreal.

If you go to London, you could see the Harry Potter studios at Leavesden. And take a day trip Stonehenge.

You could take trains to Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland (including outdoorsy areas).

You could take the Chunnel train to Paris.

Split the travel days up. Fly direct to Frankurt or London, spend a few days there and then fly to CPN. Flights are usually fairly inexpensive between european cities.

Anonymous wrote:If "they" changed your flights, you should insist they rebook you to something palatable. Unless they cancelled service on specific days.

You might also change to later in the summer when they are keeping the more frequent schedule. United once changed my 1 layover flight to Greece to have 2 layovers. So they let me move my SB trip to summer.

If "they" changed your flights, you should insist they rebook you to something palatable. Unless they cancelled service on specific days.

We live in Missouri and school will be out May 20 for us. We had booked tickets to Denmark (we are big lego nerds and also have friends in Copenhagen) but they just changed our flight times and we can't find any more itineraries that will be less than 19 hours of travel each way. (We are two-three hours from St. Louis and KC). Our kids are aged 6-14 and 6 yo DS could not handle such long travel times to make it worth it. Most of our family trips have been within the US except we have been to Mexico City and taken lots of extended family trips to Caribbean and Mayan Riviera. We have an OR/northern CA trip planned for end of August where we will go white water rafting, Redwood National Forest, Oregon coast, Portland) so want to avoid a similar trip. Cruises are out (we are not totally anti-cruise, but enjoy them as extended family vacations.)

DH got a large (and deserved) back pay award, so we are really hoping to live it up this summer.

We like trips that combine national parks with fun activities and a few nights in cities. My family (DH and the younger two, at least) are very go go go - they do not like hanging out at the beach for multiple days unless there are other activities happening. The kids enjoy Disney and Universal type vacations, which could be a back up, but those would be less exciting for me and DH and my older two, at least, would be just as excited to do something else. DS has mild cerebral palsy and hiking is challenging with him so we try to keep that limited. That said, he is a great biker (he does bike races, mtb, cyclocross, etc) so we have had luck with city bike excursions and mtb oriented trips (e.g. Bentonville, Arkansas).

I was hoping to do a New England road trip (we used to live in Vermont), but most of the places we'd want to go will only be open on the weekends that time of year. In terms of European destination, we can fly to Frankfurt or London directly from STL, which would be doable. My 14 yo has suggested combining London and Wales (she is a mountain biker and has heard they have good mountain biking there?). My 11 yo dd is more like me- will do some outdoorsy stuff but likes more of a mix of things -shows, cooking/baking, shopping, history. We would also consider other domestic destinations but we are not sure where to start. They like a mix of "fun" stuff, some learning/culture, and outdoorsy stuff. We all enjoy places with varied cuisine since that is something we lack where we live.

DH has vetoed NYC (I grew up there and like to visit, but we have all found it's more enjoyable if I take one or two of the kids and DH takes the other kid camping or something)