Family vacations can be about a posh hotel experience, complete with puffy robes and cloud-like bedding. Other times, a family vacation is more about seeing sights and returning home with a story to tell. These off-beat hotels are guaranteed to do just that.

I grew up traveling around the world, but that’s not the case for my kids. Our family vacations are more likely to be spent in Florida than France.  But I still want my kids to get a taste of the world. So I travel with my kids to the dinner table, where we eat foods from countries around...

If your spouse had a business trip to Oahu, and you had enough frequent flier miles for two extra plane tickets, you'd go, right? And you'd move mountains to travel with your teen, even during the school year.

The best deals for family vacations often are only available after the kids have gone back to school. This traveling mom didn't hesitate to take her kids out of school for a family vacation.

Biking is a great way to see the country. Or, in the case of Fort Collins, Colorado, to sample the local beer. Katy Schneider of the Fort Collins Convention and Visitors Bureau put together the following afternoon biking tour of the microbreweries in her town 50 miles north of Denver.

Planning for the holidays can be a challenge. Will you travel to Grandma’s or is this the year the in-laws travel to stay with you? Who’s cooking the turkey? Where will you wake up on Christmas morning? And, if you happen to be one of the more than 20 million blended family households in...

Usually, when people talk about travel, they are typically referring to either a need (work) or a desire (play). But for Kentucky native and traveling mom Vickie Cox, it’s neither. And both. It’s a calling.

Miami is a choice family vacation destination once the winter doldrums settle in. Families traveling with kids are attracted by the sun that shines here year 'round, the shovel-ready beaches that stretch for miles, the palm trees that blow in the warm breezes and the tiny lizards that skitter about....