I’m very excited to annouce the launch of a new online family-travel website: BestFamilyTravelAdvice.com.
I’ve been working on building this website with my friends Amie (from CiaoBambino.com), Jen (from TheVacationGals.com) and Mara (from MotherOfAllTrips.com) since Amie reached out to me late last year asking if I’d like to be involved in this project. Once I understood that this website is intended to provide a resource where moms like me can come to ask questions about family travel, I was all in.
You may think that there’s already a lot of people writing about family travel online – on websites, newspapers, magazines and blogs and that is true. As a blogger, I’m obviously biased, but I’ve found that the best independent reviews of destinations, properties and activities can be found on blogs written by moms. I find myself turning to these resources again and again as I’ve planned my family’s trips over the past two years or so. And that’s the best thing about BestFamilyTravelAdvice.com: questions submitted on this website will be answered by a long list of family travel experts – the best of the best of the family travel bloggers in fact.
But I find it’s still difficult for me to find the exact piece of information I’m looking for when planning a trip for my family. When I do a Google search, for say, “family friendly hotel in Maui” the results include as many entries from hotels and resorts who’ve paid to have their link show up as from journalists or bloggers or even guidebook publishers. All of which makes it insanely difficult to find an unbiased, honest review of anything. That’s where we hope BestFamilyTravelAdvice.com will fit in. You can enter a question or search our database of questions and know that you’re going to find advice and information written by moms for moms.
So there you have it. If you’ve got questions about your family’s upcoming summer vacation and you’re going a little nutty trying to find the information online, here’s a new option for you. Try it out. We’ll be very glad to help you if we can.
I love Ciao Bambino, I even have them on my FB page. I look forward to checking out this new site.
When I took my then ten 10 week old son to London (from Los Angeles) in 2006, people thought we were nuts. I had a hard time finding someone to take the passport picture. At one point we ended up going to LAX and talking to someone at American Airlines face to face because we couldn’t get our questions answered on the phone or through the website. Resources and information was few and far between it seemed.
I’m so excited to see other families traveling with their kids more now. The products, services that are on offer and family friendly hotels and airlines that work with families all go towards making travel a more pleasant experience for all.
Good Luck!
J.