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My Worst Travel Experiences - The Beijing Taxi Scam - Travel Babbo
The Beijing Taxi Scam In traveling through more than seventy countries, I've had very few bad experiences. And I've become a better traveler because of each one. This is the first in a series of posts about the worst things that have happened to me on the road and how they changed my travel
The Best Age to Travel Everywhere - Travel Babbo
The Best Age to Travel the World A question I get a lot is: what is the best age to take my kids to _______. Fill in the blank with anywhere: Hawaii; Europe; Africa; Australia. The answer is to some extent specific to the place, but it's also specific to
The Best Hotel in Singapore - Travel Babbo
Singapore Last year I wrote about Singapore in this post - laying out an optimal itinerary for a one-day layover in the city. I talked a little about hotels too and mentioned our two favorites - the Fullerton Hotel and the Fullerton Bay Hotel. The other hotels we've stayed it
Syros Greece with Teens - Travel Babbo
Why Syros? I've written a lot about Greece over the years. It's our favorite country after all. I first visited in 1990 and 1992 with friends in college (Athens, Olympia, Delphi, Hydra, Poros, Aegina and Mykonos) and then my wife and I traveled to Athens and Santorini in 2009. We
How to Get from the Airport to Your Hotel - Travel Babbo
Airport to Hotel Transportation A reader recommended that I write a post with options for traveling from the airport to a hotel. So here you go! Obviously a post like this can't be specific, but we've flown into hundreds of airports and had to get to our hotel every time,
The Best Ocean View Hotels - Travel Babbo
Ocean View Hotels I've been getting a lot of requests from people for ocean view hotels - either in specific locations or anywhere in the world. We love hotels with good views, especially with kids. If we're somewhere with young kids and they need downtime in the middle of the
The Best Countries to Visit (Our 20 Favorite Countries Ranked) - Travel Babbo
Rating Every Country We've Traveled To During the COVID-19 shutdown we were at home and looking for ways to stay entertained, so I asked my wife and kids to rate every country they've been to from 1 to 10. I added in my votes and ranked every country that had
10 Places Not to Miss in Tokyo - Travel Babbo
Things to Do in Tokyo, Japan I've traveled to Tokyo a lot over the years, including two trips with my youngest daughter (her annual trips at 7 and 8), spring break 2025 with two kids, and an AFAR Experience where we went below the surface. It's gone from being a
The Best Points and Miles Credit Card for Teens - Travel Babbo
Credit Cards for Kids and Teens I wanted to get credit cards for my kids well before they were teens. There were several reasons for this: They had school field trips and sports trips which would stop places like In-n-Out Burger on the way home. Either I could get them
Two Nights at Uluru, A Once In A Lifetime Destination - Travel Babbo
Australia for the Holidays We typically spend Christmas in Colorado, and it's cold in Colorado in December. This year my daughters asked if we could go somewhere warm immediately after Christmas Day. Sounded good to me too! I looked at the Caribbean, but the airlines make it difficult to get
The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist - Travel Babbo
Your Pre-Travel Checklist If you've followed me for a while, you know I travel a lot. On average I fly somewhere once a month - mostly with my kids. That's a lot of trips to coordinate, and a lot of details to think through. I've always used spreadsheets to track
The 10 Best Places in the World to Get Your Kids Outside - Travel Babbo
Family Adventure Vacations We're always heading off on adventures around the world. Just the way we travel is an adventure - around-the-world trips with the kids, taking float planes to remote islands, walking across Tuscany - but we're also active, hiking, kayaking, climbing and cycling wherever we can. I've previously
Paros Greece with Kids - Travel Babbo
Summer in the Greek Islands We love Greece in the summer. The islands are truly idyllic, with amazing food, beaches and cute towns and shops. The white houses with their blue shutters, and painted walkways through town, add to the vibe. Plus the islands are safe. We've felt comfortable letting
Our Best Jet Lag Tips for Family Travel - Travel Babbo
Tips for Jet Lag I get asked about jet lag all the time but I've never written about it. I've always thought of it as a necessary evil. When flying across multiple time zones, it simply takes your sleep patterns a while to adjust. I've flown several million miles at
How To Fly Qatar Airways Qsuites with Points and Miles - Travel Babbo
The Qatar Airways Qsuite I've flown thousands of flights on dozens (hundreds?) of airlines and the Qatar Airways Qsuite business class is my favorite flying experience. There are of course ultra-high-end first class products out there like Singapore Airlines and Emirates suites, but for an exceptionally comfortable and enjoyable flight
Europe with Kids: The 10 Best Family Holiday Destinations in Europe - Travel Babbo
Best European Cities with Kids We've traveled throughout a lot of Europe with kids the past 18 years – 70+ cities in 20+ countries – and I made a short list of our favorite kid-friendly European cities. Then I deleted the largest two, London and Paris, since they’re the top
What We Always Pack - Travel Babbo
Old school travel information, and our thermometer, artfully arranged overlooking Tokyo from the 42nd floor of the Park Hyatt I'm writing this post from the Park Hyatt Tokyo, here with my 7-year-old. Japan is my 48th country with kids, and in the course of all of that travel we've learned
When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge - Travel Babbo
Getting Past My Backpacker Mentality I studied abroad three semesters in college, in Italy and Germany, and traveled around Europe as inexpensively as possible over weekends and breaks. I took overnight trains with my Eurail passes, never spent more than $20/night on a hostel, and rarely paid more than $10
Where to Travel with Your Kids at Every Age - Travel Babbo
Family Travel Inspiration I created my family travel blog to inspire people to take their kids everywhere. It's why I post to social media as well. It's an amazing world. The more places you take your kids, and the more cultures they see in person, the more it will change
Study Abroad: The Best Decision I Ever Made - Travel Babbo
Study Abroad - My Story Growing up in Colorado in the '70s I traveled on planes maybe once a year. Most years we traveled domestically, but three times I got to go overseas - twice to France to see family and once to Fiji. In the days before Internet, and
Tips for Optimizing Your Frequent Flyer Miles - Travel Babbo
Frequent Flyer Miles My relationship with frequent flyer miles, or points, changed forever around 6pm on February 16, 1999. Up until then, I hadn't paid much attention to my airline-based mileage accounts. I flew internationally once or twice a year, and had a mileage earning credit card, but never thought
How to Travel Cheap - Travel Babbo
How to Travel Cheap - i.e. How to Make Travel Affordable People ask me all the time how to travel cheap internationally. It’s difficult to answer since everyone has different circumstances. Some people have access to lower-cost airports. Some choose other priorities and wonder why there isn’t money left over
Holiday Gifts for Travelers - 2023 - Travel Babbo
My Annual Holiday Gift Guide I love doing this post every year! As always, this gift guide includes things that we like and use. It's not based around affiliate links or obligations to brands I've promoted or anything else. Enjoy! And if you've found amazing things that have made your
When It’s Fun Not to Travel Deeper: Flying Around the World - Travel Babbo
Traveling Around the World I’ve traveled around the world, in one itinerary, four times now. The first was when my eldest daughter was 10. We flew LA-Orlando-Paris-Dubai-Oman-Borobudur-Bali-Sydney-LA in two weeks. Then when my son was 10, we took two and a half weeks to travel LA-Copenhagen-Greenland-Seychelles-Abu Dhabi-Mumbai-Singapore-LA. Both were amazing,
Visiting Arches National Park with Kids - Travel Babbo
Arches National Park Utah Prompted by the pandemic, we switched from international travel to domestic road tripping, and we gravitated to the National Parks. Between 2020 and 2023 we made 19 visits to nine US National Parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Colorado. An $80 Annual Pass for the
Hokkaido: Adventure in Northern Japan - Travel Babbo
Previous Travels in Japan We love Japan. I've visited Kyoto and Tokyo twice with my daughter. I've traveled around Hiroshima, the Iya Valley, Miyajima and Naoshima Island with National Geographic and I dove deeper into Tokyo with AFAR. When I had my family rate the 60+ countries we've visited, Japan
10 Amazingly Cool Hotels For Your Bucket List - Travel Babbo
Cool Hotels I spend an inordinate amount of time choosing hotels when we travel. My criteria: We want to be in the best location - when your child has to go to the bathroom in a European city, your hotel room is the easiest possible option if it's nearby! We
Is a Disney Cruise Right for Your Family? - Travel Babbo
Introduction Seven years ago Travelocity asked me to write about Disney Cruises, and how to decide if one is perfect for your family. At the time we had done three 12-night Disney Cruises in Europe. Now that we've taken a 4th Disney Cruise, with older kids, it seemed like a
A Review of Our Disney Fantasy Caribbean Cruise - Travel Babbo
A Disney Fantasy Cruise in the Western Caribbean When I posted to Instagram that we were booked on a spring break Disney Fantasy Cruise, a lot of people DMed me to ask why. It’s a reasonable question – although we’ve been on a number of cruises, we don’t love cruises,
Flying Around the World (Literally) for Spring Break at Six Senses Yao Noi - Travel Babbo
Six Senses Yao Noi Our first Six Senses stay was in Oman. I was traveling around the world with my 10-year-old daughter and we included a stop at Six Senses Zighy Bay because you could arrive at the hotel by paragliding in from a nearby mountain. Talking with the staff
An Antarctica Packing List - Travel Babbo
Antarctica Packing List I've now been to Antarctica twice, first with National Geographic Expeditions with my 8-year-old, and most recently with Adventures By Disney with my 12-year-old. I originally included this packing list in my second blog post, but I think it makes more sense to make it a separate
Adventures By Disney Antarctica: A Magical Expedition - Travel Babbo
A Second Trip to Antarctica with Kids Nine years ago I took my 8-year-old daughter to Antarctica. It was an amazing trip, and it was the reason I started this website. I wasn't a travel writer at the time; I simply wanted to tell the world to take their kids