Vacation Villa - Holiday by Disney

Holidays are just around the corner and if you’re traveling, hotels can get expensive during the peak times. 

Since we have a family of nine, we automatically have to get two rooms.  When we traveled to Florida to accompany my husband on a business trip, his hotel room was $200 per night and that was with a discount!  That didn’t even include food and we were going to be there for a week, too.

I started searching for other hotels in the area but they were just as much, if not more.  Someone told me to look into the vacation rentals in the area.  I looked online and was surprised to see that there were a lot of vacation rentals in the area with very reasonable prices.

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Have any of you tried Geocaching?

Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure using GPS technology and then share the geocache’s existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache.

Our family got involved in geocaching a year or two ago.  We went camping and a friend of ours told us about several geocaches around the campgrounds.  Our children found as many as they could during that camping trip.  They enjoyed it so much that we started looking for them around our place. [Read more...]

How many times have you asked yourself that question when getting into your vehicle?

Since we have a full size van, who knows where it’s coming from. After throwing everything out of the van searching for this “treasure”, that offensive smell originated from some fuzzy blob left under one of the seats for who knows how long.

Our family instituted just two simple rules to prevent this from happening again:

1. No eating or drinking in the vehicle – simple, isn’t? It only took me years to figure that out!
2. If you want to eat something, you have to get out of the vehicle to eat it.

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If you’re trying to plan a trip to Disney World, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of information available on the web.

A Google search for Disney World vacation planning pulls up approximately 462,000 sites!

But, lucky for you, I’ve already waded through the web and found the top 7 Disney World vacation planning websites.

All Ears: This is my favorite Disney information website. It’s so comprehensive it’s scary. It even has sample menus from restaurants and reviews on everything from hotels to tours. Check out the “Reader Tip Archive”, as it’s full of hidden gems. [Read more...]

Disney is having some wonderful deals this summer for families traveling to the happiest place on earth.

Save up to 35% at Select Disney Moderate Resorts

Deals are on specific days from June-early August, and you must book by June 6, 2009.  Click HERE for more info.

Free Disney Dining Plan

When you purchase a specific 5-night/6-day Magic Your Way hotel and theme park ticket package, your family will enjoy the Disney Dining Plan, Free. That’s a savings of $654 for a family of four. Valid for stays most nights 8/16/09 to 10/03/09, and you must book by June 21, 2009.  Click HERE for more info.

photo credit: Thomas_Jung