USA

Florida has long been synonymous with travel and vacations in the U.S. You will picture Orlando theme parks full of thrill rides immediately upon thinking about a Florida vacation, and theme parks are all well and good. Be it a visit to the four Disney Parks or a thrill ride in Tampa’s Busch Botanical Gardens, …

What are the best places to stay in New York City with family? What areas of New York City and which hotels are best for your family or with kids? Which areas are best for sight seeing and touring NYCS famous places? This post shows you where is best to stay in New York for …

The Disney Animal Kingdom is possibly our favourite of the 4 Disney parks in Orlando Florida and was a big hit with my kids as babies, toddlers, and tweens. It’s the Disney park they’re most excited about re-visiting as teens too! A look at Disney’s Animal Kingdom with and for kids and how to maximise …

Orlando is absolutely stuffed with theme parks and attractions, most people come for the big established players, Disney, Universal, and Seaworld, but there are a lot of other theme parks in the Orlando area. Legoland Florida is a relatively new big-name amongst the Florida theme parks. We went to check it out for the first …

Everyone comes to Orlando for the theme parks, right? But there is so much more to Orlando beside thrill rides and Micky Mouse. We look at things to do in Orlando Florida for families, with kids or teenagers, that will be fun and maybe even educational. Orlando, and Florida, is one of our favourite places …

All of our USA content in one USA travel blog page, jump to the USA destination you need. We’ve visited the US several times to create our USA travel blog section, both before we had children and after. Our usual style is to road trip our way around the states and we’ve covered some big …

Park City, Utah, USA is stuffed with family-friendly things to do, making it a great stop on your road trip or a family vacation destination or even a weekend break destination for you and the kids. This post covers kid friendly hotels in Park City, plus things to do for a great family experience. After …

The number of US States we’ve visited is pretty meagre by a lot of travellers’ standards, I guess that’s common for those of us based in Australia and the UK. I believe it’s something we should all try and put right! We adored our USA road trip in 2014, we discovered that the United States …

We left home with a vague plan to backpack our way around Asia for as many years as possible, with two kids and a tight budget. Well, plans change, life happens and the universe sometimes points you in directions you never anticipated. We never expected to take a cruise, ever, let alone a bargain trans-Atlantic …

It seems so long ago now! On our first night in Lancaster county PA, in some nondescript but friendly motel, we were just settling down for the night when we hear a bellow from the next room: “Get yourself in that tub or I’ll be opening a can of Whoop-Ass on y’all!” We didn’t think …

Let’s rewind 2 months to our last night in the Americas. Dinner on Key Largo was a treat for us, a farewell to Florida, a state we love on so many levels and the last night of our Canada to the Keys road trip before we boarded our cruise back to Europe. That one meal outlived …

Why visit Hawaii? Well why not? Here we are in London, loving everything the capital has to offer, but still, the dreams and the plans are with us and as strong as always. We’re slowly stashing away the travel bucks and getting ready to spend them next year, but where, where will we go next? …

Since I was a kid watching wildlife shows on TV, I’ve wanted to take an airboat ride in the Everglades, yet for some reason, despite visiting Florida before, I’d never done it. We usually head to Florida for the Disney parks, we’ve been 3 times now and loved every visit, (check out how we visited all …

Much as we all love theme parks, most families need to find a few other things to do in Orlando for kids during their Florida holiday. One of our family favourites, for some non-theme-park fun, was Green Meadows Petting Farm. It was a welcome antidote to the hectic days of chasing around the parks and a lovely …

We set ourselves a challenge while we were in Orlando, Florida. Visiting four Disney parks in one day. Not only that, we wanted to ride all of the biggest and best rides. Do you think it’s possible? If you’re wondering if the queues will make visiting 4 parks in one day impossible, don’t. See my post …

Yesterday I pulled out all of my road trip with kids ninja skills for a 10 hour journey from Mississippi to Florida. For at least 9 of those hours we were sitting in a car. That’s me, my husband and two boys, aged 9 and 7. We’ve been road tripping with the kids, all over the USA …

Are you heading to the USA for a road-trip vacation? Good choice, this country is perfectly set up for that kind of touring. Cheap fuel, great roads, affordable and plentiful motels and a million diverse things to see and do make the USA a brilliant driving holiday destination. Everything we know on travel USA after …

We’ve just spent an amazing few days in New Orleans at Mardi Gras and, honestly, we spent a lot of that time eating. In our whole 1 month USA road trip, I think New Orleans offered us the best food, even on our moderate budget. We did wonder a little, where to eat out in New …

New Orleans Mardi Gras just happened to us by accident. We’re almost at the end of our 1 month USA road trip, New Orleans is our final destination, one I’d picked, I’d always wanted to see the Big Easy. As we left Orlando a few days ago we started having a quick look online for …

The town of Celebration , Florida,  is community in Osceola County United States, located near Walt Disney World Resort  (Disney Florida). The community was master-planned and originally developed by The Walt Disney Company and the design is very pleasing and clean-cut. Celebration is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of around 10,000 people. If you’re staying in …

We’ve been moving around a lot over the last 3 weeks of our USA road trip. We’ve driven from NYC to Canada to Florida in a hire car. Petrol, car hire, road tolls, food, what’s the most expensive part of a USA road trip? Even travelling the way we do, as cheaply as possible, one …

Queues at Disney World and all of the Disney Parks can be long. Standing in line for over an hour for a ride isn’t unusual. But if you plan your day, get there early, and take advantage of queue-beating offers, queues become less of a headache. Here are some ways to beat the queues at …

We love finding unexpected things as we travel around the world, yesterday was a cracker. Finding the USA’s answer to Nessy in Darien Georgia came totally out of the blue and was a delight for all of us. No, we didn’t actually see her. But we talked to a lady who had a friend who …

We only stopped for a couple of hours in Charleston, South Carolina on our USA road trip but we absolutely loved it. We should have stayed longer. We try to pick where we spend the night based on a quick morning internet scan to see what accommodation prices are like. There was nothing under $50 …

We pulled into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last night and headed straight for the beach for the boys to have a run around. They do amazingly well in the car, we’d had a relatively short drive by our standards, around 5 hours of sitting still. Those little limbs needed to move. Myrtle Beach is beautiful! …

We like to try new foods as we travel around the world,  but chocolate coated bacon? Seriously? We haven’t found anything that bizarre since Marmite flavoured fudge. We found this new and exciting culinary invention at the Bird in Hand Farmers’ Market deep in Amish country, Pennsylvania. It’s just up the road from the unusually …

Yes Intercourse USA really exists and supposedly, it has the most stolen sign in the whole of the country. Intercourse PA, in Lancaster County Pennsylvania is a bit of a tourist hot spot as it sits squarely in beautiful Amish Country. We had to visit Intercourse town as part of our USA road trip and this part …

We came at New York pretty much blind, I’d done almost no research on what to do nor where to go. All we had organised was a 4-night stay in a Holiday Inn not far from Times Square. Times Square sounds like a good place to stay, right? It’s actually an expensive area of NYC, …

This morning the boys and I went to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not New York,  just off Times Square in New York City. I’d never been to a museum like it before and I really didn’t know too much about it. We loved it! I thought it would be about Guinness World Record breakers mostly. …