The Americas

Travel in the Americas. North, South and Central America archives.

South America on World Travel Family

There is very little South America travel content on World Travel Family travel blog. And that’s for a very good ...
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Where To Stay in Flores

Where to stay in Flores, Guatemala, a family and child-friendly guide. There aren’t too many hotels, guest houses and hostels ...
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Adventurous Things To Do in Florida

Are you looking for something adventurous to do near you? Maybe you want to fill your vacation with Florida adventures? ...
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Flores to Tikal. Tikal from Flores by Bus & Shuttle

How to get to Tikal from Flores? Your choices of transport to Tikal Guatemala from beautiful Flores. Tikal National Park ...
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Disney Animal Kingdom With Kids

The Disney Animal Kingdom is possibly our favourite of the 4 Disney parks in Orlando Florida and was a big ...
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Things to Do in Orlando Florida

Everyone comes to Orlando for the theme parks, right? But there is so much more to Orlando beside thrill rides ...
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USA Travel Blog

All of our USA content in one USA travel blog page, jump to the USA destination you need. We’ve visited ...
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Guatemala Travel Blog

We spent almost 2 months travelling in Guatemala to create our Guatemala travel blog, a guide, experiences and tips to ...
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Things to do in Cuba for all age groups

Cuba is changing. The decades-old American embargo is being relaxed this year, and a 2010 government decree is allowing private ...
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Park City With Kids and for Families

Park City, Utah, USA is stuffed with family-friendly things to do, making it a great stop on your road trip ...
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New York in Winter, on an RTW

We left home with a vague plan to backpack our way around Asia for as many years as possible, with ...
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Hot Sauce New Orleans

It seems so long ago now! On our first night in Lancaster county PA, in some nondescript but friendly motel, ...
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Dinner on Key Largo

Let’s rewind 2 months to our last night in the Americas. Dinner on Key Largo was a treat for us, ...
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Why Visit Hawaii?

Why visit Hawaii? Well why not? Here we are in London, loving everything the capital has to offer, but still, ...
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Bus From Flores to Guatemala City. So Bad?

I’m no princess. I’ve travelled on night buses many times. We take them as often as we can, it saves ...
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Tikal With Kids

The highlight of our time in Guatemala was Tikal National Park, the most incredible set of Mayan ruins in the world. ...
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Good Friday Procession, Easter in Flores Guatemala

Good Friday, two religions in one day. Ancient Mayan traditions in a steamy sub-tropical rainforest at Tikal and an evening ...
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Good Friday At Tikal Guatemala

Wow, what a day, what a place, what a huge amount of learning! We are in Guatemala for Easter and ...
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From Antigua to San Pedro La Laguna & Lake Atitlan Guatemala

Dedicated followers (there are a few!) will know that we just spent a whole month in Antigua Guatemala quietly getting ...
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Attacked by Dogs in Antigua

We travel to find new and different experiences, but while being attacked by dogs in Antigua qualified for both categories, ...
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Getting to Guatemala from USA. The Cheap Way.

We think we found a great way of Getting to Guatemala from USA at the end of our 1 month ...
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Flower Carpets Antigua Guatemala

Flower carpets in Antigua Guatemala are an Easter tradition that we knew about before we arrived. We didn’t know that ...
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Living in Antigua Guatemala (with Kids)

Antigua Guatemala is a stunningly beautiful city in Guatemala. Its architecture, history, and culture are sure to delight, along with ...
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Visiting Four Disney Parks in One Day

We set ourselves a challenge while we were in Orlando, Florida. Visiting four Disney parks in one day. Not only ...
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Planning a USA Road Trip

Are you heading to the USA for a road-trip vacation? Good choice, this country is perfectly set up for that ...
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Where to Eat Out in New Orleans With Kids

We’ve just spent an amazing few days in New Orleans at Mardi Gras and, honestly, we spent a lot of that ...
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New Orleans Mardi Gras

New Orleans Mardi Gras just happened to us by accident. We’re almost at the end of our 1 month USA ...
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USA Road Trip Costs

We’ve been moving around a lot over the last 3 weeks of our USA road trip. We’ve driven from NYC ...
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Beating The Queues At Disney. Orlando Florida.

Queues at Disney World and all of the Disney Parks can be long. Standing in line for over an hour ...
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Darien, Georgia and the USA’s Answer to Nessy

We love finding unexpected things as we travel around the world, yesterday was a cracker. Finding the USA’s answer to ...
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Put Charleston South Carolina on Your USA Road Trip

We only stopped for a couple of hours in Charleston, South Carolina on our USA road trip but we absolutely ...
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Myrtle Beach Shark Teeth. Finding Fossilised Black Shark Teeth.

We pulled into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last night and headed straight for the beach for the boys to have ...
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Niagara Falls, Clifton Hill

There are two sides to Niagara Falls. No, not the US side and the Canada side. I mean the “Gosh isn’t ...
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A Town Called Intercourse PA (USA)

Yes Intercourse USA really exists and supposedly, it has the most stolen sign in the whole of the country. Intercourse ...
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The Best Way to See Niagara Falls

Yesterday, on a whim, we drove for 6 hours to see Niagara Falls. We were in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and figured ...
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A Family Trip to New York on a Budget

We came at New York pretty much blind, I’d done almost no research on what to do nor where to ...
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Ripley’s Believe It or Not New York – What Did We Think?

This morning the boys and I went to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not New York,  just off Times Square in ...
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