PureWow: The 10 Best Family Vacation Spots, Ranked, According to Travel Experts
My most poignant memories of family life come via travel: My husband angling for the biggest halibut in Alaska while deep-sea fishing with another family, our elementary school son hunting Easter eggs across a Maui resort lawn and even the mishaps, like when teenage me mistakenly walked my embarrassed mom down bawdy Bourbon Street on the way back to our New Orleans hotel. Family travel is a rare state of grace: We are out of our comfort zone, the Gameboy is not at hand, so we remember to face each other, listen and we may even learn new stuff like methods of spiking a volleyball, how settlers turned sand into fortresses or how a yesterday’s volcanic eruption is today’s beachy island. So when I came across the study of the most family-friendly cities for vacation in America, I wanted to share it, along with actionable places to stay.
