If waking up beside a crystal clear lake and spending your days filled with outdoor adventure sounds appealing, then Lake Placid in the Adirondacks is for you. Here are 6 summer family activities in Lake Placid that are guaranteed memory-makers. 6 summer family activities in Lake Placid: Raft the Ausable Chasm. Do a sunrise boat…
IBEROSTAR Paseo de Gracia (Barcelona) review
If you’ve been to Spain before but planning your first visit to Barcelona, throw out everything you think you know about Spanish life and be prepared for it to feel like a totally different country. Your hub definitely needs to be the IBEROSTAR Paseo de Gracia and this review will explain why. Thanks to IBEROSTAR, I…
New York City Greenwich Village sweets tour
There are few better opportunities to make your mark as the coolest parent on the planet than allowing your kids to skip dinner in favour of a sweets tour of Greenwich Village. When we were in New York City, I really wanted to see the Friends apartment and designed an entire food tour around it….
The perfect family day out in Niagara-on-the-Lake
I’ve been coming to the Niagara region since I was a toddler. And while I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched the power of Niagara Falls come down across Table Rock and dump into the pool below, I’ve only visited Niagara-on-the-Lake once. Sans kids. But with its quaint downtown strip, historic buildings, thriving…
Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport West review
Whenever we travel to a new destination, I usually search for a hotel close to public transportation. But as you’ll read here in my review of the Holiday Inn Winnipeg Airport West, that part doesn’t matter a bit. We simply needed a place to rest our heads during a recent visit to explore all of…
6 reasons you need TELUS Drive+ (sponsored post)
I don’t own a vehicle new enough to come equipped with a fancy app. But thanks to TELUS Drive+, my car is now a smart car and works with my mobile phone to provide me with real-time vehicle information without even stepping foot inside. There are too many features to mention in this quick post,…
Book your tropical winter vacation early to save big, risk-free (sponsored post)
Do you get the travel itch like I do? I mean that gnawing feeling that means you NEED to have family travel plans locked and loaded at least once a year. That’s why last-minute travel deals don’t always work well for me — because half of the fun is planning the getaway and counting down…
6 reasons you should book a summer getaway with Air Canada Vacations
The first vacation we ever took as a family was when The K Man was a week shy of two years old and I was pregnant with Miss Q. It was a hot June week, and although I wasn’t originally thrilled about a tropical getaway when the sun was shining at home, the deal was…
4 places to go spring skiing in Northern Vermont
Something we don’t really get a chance to do here in southwestern Ontario is go spring skiing. That beautiful balance between snow on the ground and warmth in the air, to which only mountain living is conducive. Vermont is the perfect example of spring skiing done right — especially with yet another Nor’Easter hitting hard…
8 things to do in winter at Smugglers’ Notch Resort
This things to do in winter at Smugglers’ Notch Resort post was updated in April 2023. After four March Break ski trips in Vermont, I’m getting to be an expert on the place. An easy drive from the GTA, Ottawa and Montreal, Smugglers’ Notch Resort is rated the No. 1 Family Ski Resort year after…