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Beyond Mickey: top 10 Orlando tips for mums and dads (The Guardian)

12 remarkable places you’ve never heard of (Destination Travel)

5 gems of Bangkok (iTravelnet)

Billions of Balloons Hit The Skies Next Week In New Mexico (Jaunted)

Know the best spots in Paris to marvel at Notre-Dame (Fodor’s)

Pilots from Continental and United airlines demonstrate on Wall Street (Photo Blog)

Top 10 Doctor Who filming locations (Visit Britain Super Blog)

Worldwide weird: Make way for marching ducks in Memphis (BBC)

Lumière | The Louvre Less Traveled (NY Times)

Europe through the eyes of babes (The Miami Herald)

Taste of Travel: Not the Usual Cheesy Places (NatGeo)

How do other countries stack up to the U.S. in airport security? (Budget Travel)

World’s Most Beautiful Museums (Travel + Leisure)

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Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty's Castle

Last November, I packed up my wife and kids and headed off for a whirlwind ten-day vacation in Southern California. Our base of operations was Disneyland, where we would be spending most of our time and money.

I found deals everywhere I could, from the airline tickets to the online park hopper passes to the wonderful hotel around the corner from Disneyland’s main gate. In fact, I can’t recommend the Candy Cane Inn more highly. Our nine nights at this highly-rated, but inexpensive, hotel were perfect, from the quiet rooms to the morning breakfast by the pool.

So, we saved a lot of money on these items.

One of the more important things you have to budget for is food. I mean, you gotta eat. Usually three times a day, plus a couple of snacks. Walking around Disneyland really speeds up the metabolism.

Here is my recommendation for those of you with hungry families traveling to Disneyland for an extended stay.

Screw the food budget.

Seriously, you’re on vacation! One of the biggest pleasures of getting away from home is being able to eat well. Why ruin your vacation with a mouthful of cardboard pizza and a regretful stomach ache?

There are plenty of places in and around Disneyland where you can enjoy some delicious meals for lunch and dinner, and most of them aren’t as expensive as you’d think. Here are my recommendations for must-eat restaurants with your family.

PB&J creation at the Carnation Cafe

Most people walk right by the Carnation Cafe. It’s tucked away in an alley halfway down Main Street, and it’s easy to think it’s nothing special.

But the Carnation Cafe is our favorite eatery in Disneyland, simply because the food is so good and the staff is the friendliest in the park. My kids have a real soft spot for the PB&J Artist’s Palette, which comes with a mix of ingredients for the making of an epic peanut butter sandwich. For the grown-ups, the Croissant Chicken Club and the Cafe Chef Salad are fresh and delicious, and each around $11. Read More »

Until a few years back, a vacation meant piling the kids into the back and hitting the road. But times change, and now you have a whole new bunch of requirements to fulfill before you can even think about the beach, a cold beer and some peace and quiet.

Beach Vacation

If you don’t want your neighbors and colleagues to look down on you, follow this list of ’friendly’ things that your vacation has to be.

1. Environment-friendly:- It’s bad enough that your vacation destroys your entire year’s savings. Don’t let your vacation be blamed for the destruction of the earth. Find a destination which cares about their surroundings, get a green hotel, try to avoid trips by air and don’t do stuff which will be harmful to the environment – like wasting water, and leaving trash and beer cans in the outdoors or on the road. Read More »

I don’t know about you guys, but my family starts wishing for our next vacation the second we get home from our last vacation. Having as much time in advance for planning makes it a lot easier to pull together the required funds. About once a year we plan a “big” vacation, and once we’ve got a destination in mind, and a general cost figured out, we start working toward saving the money.

And again, I don’t know about you guys, but my family lives RIGHT up to the edge of its means, every single month. With our paychecks exiting the bank account every bit as quickly as they’re deposited, it’s a challenge to find the wiggle room to set aside money for vacation. Here are five ways to save money every month.

#1 – You were going to spend it anyway, so put it away instead. The next time you plan to drop, say, $50 on dinner at a sit-down restaurant, spend $20 at a fast food joint instead, and put the remaining $30 in an interest-bearing savings account. If you get into the habit of down-scaling your plans and setting the extra money aside, you’ll be shocked at how quickly it adds up.

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