Florida
4 Things You’ll Love about Key West!
Key West was on this girl’s bucket list for a long time. What’s not to like about a place with practically perfect weather, a vibrant history, legendary nightlife, plenty of family attractions and epic people watching? Here are my 4 favorite things about Key West. The Chickens Say what?
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A Family Interlude in Key Largo
At 53 km long, Key Largo is the largest of the Florida Keys and a quieter, more laid back town than its cousin to west, the flashy and energetic Key West. So what is there for families to do in Key Largo? From mangrove swamps to beaches to coral reefs,
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Ibis Bay Beach Resort: The Place for Family Fun in Key West!
Driving into Key West on Highway 1, gazing out over the bay, I noticed a string of marker buoys in a riot of colors dotting the water. The end of this line of buoys brings us to the intersection of Roosevelt Boulevard and Sigsbee Road to a gem called Ibis
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Breaking Records Underwater: Classroom Under the Sea
Anyone who has ever watched an old James Bond movie or any of the Jacques Cousteau underwater adventures can’t help but be captivated by the old scenes of tropical scuba diving, high seas adventures and the mysterious beauty of the seafloor. It was those movies, in part, that prompted me
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Exclusive Canadian Offer from Disney Cruise Line
With Snow-pocalypse in Buffalo, New York, many Canadians are just shivering in anticipation of our own snow-tastrophe. And plotting how to escape! If you’ve ever wanted to sail aboard Disney Cruise Line from Miami or Port Canaveral, Florida, this is a great time to do it. Canadian Residents can save
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Family Travel: Roadtripping in Northern Arizona
Years ago, my husband flew from our home in Calgary to Phoenix to buy a used car (don’t ask) and on the drive home he made an overnight stop in a town called Page, Arizona. He chose the town randomly, but while he was eating his free hotel breakfast, he
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Family Travel: Universal Orlando Resort
Our family goes to California every year to hang out with my snowbirder parents and we’ve done both LEGO Land and Disneyland (twice) but for some reason, we’ve never made it out to Universal Studios. But when we went down to Florida this January to visit relatives our daughter begged
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Disney World vs. Disneyland: What’s the Difference?
I live in Calgary and have parents who snowbird it down to California every year, which means that we’ve already hit Disneyland a couple of times. Disneyland holds a special place in my heart — not only did I have some great family vacations down there when I was a
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