Trip Ideas By Activity
There are so many ways to vacation with your children.
City explorations, museum sleepovers, condo-style rentals, road trips, mountain and lake cabins, beaches, cruises, and all-inclusive vacations stretch budgets. Resorts run the gamut from moderate to pricey. Staying midweek or during shoulder season saves money.
Dream trips—African safaris, Galapagos treks, polar bear watches—deliver the thrill of wildlife encounters but at a hefty price. Farmstays, state and national parks, and hikes through Costa Rican rain forests let you enjoy animal encounters at a fraction of the cost.
Time travel fascinates kids. At living history parks, march with the militia and meet pioneers. In Europe, tour centuries-old castles, climb atop medieval walls, and stroll streets laced with 18th-century buildings. Go back millions of years to the dinosaur era. Satisfy your kids’ curiosity by going on a dinosaur dig, walking in dinosaur footprints, and ogling fossils of these fierce critters in museums.
Build sandcastles at the beach, canoe and fish at a lake, get tossed, twirled, and dropped on rollercoasters at an amusement, ski downhill, or snowshoe through snowy woods.
Stay overnight, for a few days, or a week. Plan carefully, allow for spontaneity, know that things will go awry, and maintain your sense of humor. Have fun.
The Ultimate Bermuda Food Guide
Celebrity Cruises||by Candyce H. StapenCategories: Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda Destinations, Destinations, Featured News, RestaurantsBermuda’s culinary scene is as diverse as its population. Foods and recipes came from Britain, Portugal, the Caribbean, and from the enslaved people of West Africa.
Seafood abounds. Try delicious tacos, fish chowder, codfish cakes, spiny lobster, and grilled grouper. And don’t forget about Bermuda’s famous cocktails—the dark ‘n’ stormy and the rum swizzle.
Here are 13 Bermuda food and drink specialties to try.
13 Best Places to Go Snorkeling in St. Croix
Celebrity Cruises||by Candyce H. StapenCategories: A Port Day, Adventures, Beaches, Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda Destinations, College Age & Adult, Cruises & Resorts, Teens Ages 13-17, Tweens Ages 10-12St. Croix, the largest of the United States Virgin Islands, gifts visitors with glittering beaches and abundant coral reefs that offer a variety of experiences and places to go snorkeling.
Explore a gem of the Caribbean, Buck Island Reef National Monument, and protected reefs in a coastal preserve. You can snorkel above shipwrecks, in the bay where Columbus anchored in 1493, or at close-in reefs where you can rent kayaks or kick back with cocktails.
Here are 13 of the best places to go snorkeling in St. Croix.
The Ultimate Curacao Food Guide
Celebrity Cruises||by Candyce H. StapenCategories: Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda Destinations, Featured News, RestaurantsPeople from Spain, the Netherlands, Africa, Indonesia, India, Venezuela, and Portugal comprise some of the 40-plus nationalities living in Curaçao. Each group has brought unique culinary traditions, skills, and spices, creating a vibrant cuisine.
Snack on Curaçaoan dumplings, meatballs, wafers, pancakes, peanut cookies, and raw herring. Lunch on delicious seafood, including lionfish, a delicacy, or try lizard stew, a local specialty. And don’t forget to toast each other with a cocktail made with Blue Curaçao liqueur.
Here are 22 Curaçao foods to sample.