Family trips can help with communication, McNeil has discovered. McDonald has found that driving at night is a good time for discussions. Trips with teenagers can have some rough spots, especially if siblings fight. But McMasters said she and her husband, Mike, are relieved to be over the little kid stage. The good thing with teenagers is you don't have to stop at McDonald's or Chuck E Cheese's or fool with strollers and car seats.
Parents share strategies that help make trips with teens enjoyable.
Here's a list of suggestions gleaned from several sources. Not if you're vacationing with kids. With dozens of new hotels, restaurants swathed in their best linen and museums, there isn't a better place to visit on the Mediterranean. If you want to spend part of your vacation a step back in time, try Charleston, S.C., with its Southern gentility, antebellum homes and a very walkable historic district and fort. When you tire of the bright lights and big city, there's a place, just two hours by car from Las Vegas, where eons light the way and silence is the only music.