Family travel web sites

I’m going to try what I call a mini-post. There’s probably a web definition out there already for this, but this is what I’ll call it. A mini-post is a post that contains very little information, but contains a nugget of information that I just couldn’t resist. With very little time and a whole lot of curiosity I often come across great information on the web but have only a few moments to capture it before other duties call me a way. We’ll see how this concept goes with this first mini-post:

Through the website How to Travel Around the World I found a great set of links in their FAQ section. The site is mostly focused on the backpacking set, but it did have a great little list of families oriented world travel sites. Here they are:

• Travel Saavy Mom
• Soul Travelers 3
• Delicious Baby
• The Wide Wide World

Trekaroo

I was encouraged this morning by a new site called Trekaroo. It turns out that we aren’t the only family who finds it difficult to get real, objective family travel advice. Trekaroo is in its Beta phase, but it has promise. Think Trip Advisor for families. While Trip Advisor has great unbiased travel reviews and a rating for appropriateness for families with children, its hard to limit your searches to family information. Trekaroo on the other hand is geared solely for family travel and approaches everything from that perspective.

The site has a few limitations in its early phase. The first is that there is relatively low coverage of the US. Information is organized by state and type of activity but they currently have only a few states covered. I’m sure that this will expand over time as the user generated content takes off. The other limitation for my own slefish perspective is that it does not cover any travel outside of the US and that is the primary focus of this blog. Shelly Rivoli writes a good review of Trekaroo here. I also have to give the Trekaroo folks credit for their Facebook group. Although it’s becoming a fairly common thing these days, I applaud them for opening up their creation to comment and interactivity. I joined and plan to follow up with subsequent visits to see how the discussion is going.