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Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort in Lake Placid: A Family Friendly Place to Stay
We found ourselves arriving later than we had planned, which wouldn’t be a problem in the summer months. But this wasn’t the summer. This was a mere week before the winter solstice—you know, the shortest day of the year. So, leaving just an hour or two later could mean driving through the Adirondacks in upstate New York in the dark. In winter. In snow. With a minivan. Anyone with a minivan knows that those beasts of a machine are perfectly designed for road trips heading south, but they’re not quite ideal for those road trips heading north in December, like the one we had planned to Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort…
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Hotel Review: Hyatt Regency Savannah, GA: Child Accommodating
This travel tribe doesn’t take lightly to picking out hotels, and it took us some time to settle on the Hyatt Regency Savannah. We know what it is we need, and at this stage in our travel game, we know after a long day driving, it’s two separate rooms for ourselves and our children, whether it be in the form of two connecting rooms or a suite with a separate bedroom. (If that’s not possible, check here for some tips on sharing a hotel room with your little people.) So, when we’re booking our hotel stops for our road trips up and down the Eastern Coast of the US, we…
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Thinking of Staying at an Airbnb? Here’s 5 Reasons We Loved It and 5 Reasons We Didn’t
The world is not made for odd numbers. Stop lights only really work well when the intersection can be cut evenly across, usually in fours but six will still work (at least it seems a tad bit less confusing than having no street directly across from you). Walk into any restaurant as a party of five and you’re either forced to squeeze into a table meant for four or spread out, awkwardly I might add, across a table meant for six. Conversations can be jumbled, lopsided and no longer linear. And managing to find acceptable hotel rooms without spending oodles of money? Forget about it. When we set out to…
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Hotel Review-Embassy Suites, Chevy Chase, MD-Child Accommodating (With a Watchful Eye)
The main issue facing the hotel is the same issue that makes it appealing: it is part of a mall. That's right. A mall. A mall with a CVS (yay late night candy shopping), a World Market (because I always need to buy more whimsical notebooks or napkins for the house), and a Starbucks (because I'm a mom and I need it to go with the wine I just bought at World Market). So, there are some pretty impressive positives to staying at this hotel. But that mall aspect? Oh it isn't without it's down side as well.
