Group vacation rentals for multi-generational travel: how to choose one that actually fits every age, budget, and need under a single roof.

Multi-generational travel, minus the meltdowns: how to plan one trip that works for toddlers, teens, parents, and grandparents alike.

Traveling with picky eaters doesn't have to mean stress and standoffs. Here's how to pack, plan, handle airport food rules, and raise more adventurous eaters on the road.

Here's your guide to walking the Black Heritage Trail: what the trail is, the stories behind it, and how to visit well.

How do I find history tours that are actually worth my time and money? Here's your guide: what we have loved, what we have learned, and how to choose history tours that bring the past alive (instead of tours that feel like a pop quiz with better scenery).

Family vacation rentals are not all created equal. After twenty years of renting cottages, cabins, and apartments with our daughter, here is what actually matters when you choose one for your family.

When Emma was little, we stayed in a cottage that called itself family-friendly. There was a games room. There was a welcome pack with crayons and a coloring book. There was, unmentioned in the listing, a pull-out sofa bed with a mattress so thin you could feel the metal bar through it. Emma was up by 5:30 every morning of the trip. So was I.

In this guide, I have put together nine of our family's favorite places to travel together, with a "before you go" section inside each one. Here is what we have loved, what we have learned, and the resources that turn anticipation into preparation.

On a misty grey morning at Scotland’s historic Culloden Battlefield, our daughter Lillie did not want to leave.

We had arrived early. Hours (and hours) later, a guide came to tell us the site was closing. Lillie kept going back to the same long stretch of Drummossie Moor, listening hard to the wind. She wandered to and from Leanach Cottage, meandering among clan grave markers, treading lightly and with respect. She asked questions, then went back to the marsh to think. 

Smart planning makes family travel much easier and more enjoyable. Here's how.