Sure, SeaWorld is an amusement park. What with all the rides, performances, and all that, you can’t’ call it anything else.
However, SeaWorld is also an amazing place for kids to learn quite a bit about marine animals, and see for the first time some animals they might have never even heard of before.
Continue reading Shark Eggs and Sea Dragons or #TravelSchooling at SeaWorld
You might hiccup slightly when you see the price to get into Discovery Cove – depending on the month and the day of the week you choose, it will be either over or just below $200 per person (for one day). The “swimming with the dolphin” option will set you back even more.
“Is it worth it?” you might ask.
Yes, I think it is, because, in addition to an “all you can eat, buffet-style, breakfast and lunch and unlimited snacks, drinks and alcoholic beverages” entry fee to Discovery Cove also includes unlimited admission to:
for 14 consecutive days around the date of your reservation.
Continue reading Going to Discovery Cove in Orlando, FL? Buy yourself a waterproof camera!
What a difference a terminal makes! A few months ago, in December 2012, we traveled to Europe from terminal 1 at the JFK Airport. At that time, our tween son hunted far and wide for an available outlet to plug his electronics in, so that he wouldn’t waste the battery.
At JetBlue’s terminal 5, there are outlets galore in the section with long tables especially designed for plugging in.
The terminal also has free Wi-Fi – which was very welcome by my “plugged in” family.
Continue reading Flying from JetBlue Terminal 5 at the JFK Airport in NYC
The most important thing you need to know about the Harry Potter Studio Tour (technically called “Warner Bros. Studio Tour London“) is that, as their home page says in print that really should be bigger,
“Tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are not sold at the Studio Tour.”
You cannot show up and expect to buy a ticket on site.
Continue reading Warner Bros. Studio Tour “The Making of Harry Potter”
When my husband suggested we go across the street to the V&A after we left the Natural History Museum in London, I honesty hesitated, wondering whether it’s a good idea to take the kids to a museum about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Yes. That is correct. I really thought the Victoria and Albert Museum is ABOUT Victoria and Albert, and thought it would be better to go to the Science Museum instead.
Continue reading Period Clothing at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
If you’re visiting London on a budget, skip the expensive hop-on hop-off tours and just buy yourself a London Travelcard which you can use not only on the Underground but also on the famous London double-decker buses, and you can see quite a bit of the city that way, especially if you manage to get seats right in front on the upper level.
London seems to have two options to buy tickets for public transportation – Oyster Cards and Travelcards, and the very well-designed London Transport site has a very handy page explaining the differences between the Oyster cards and the Travelcard.
Since the fee to buy an Oyster card is £3.00, we thought getting Travelcards on the couple of days we were sightseeing would a better option for the four of us, since we’d have to pay £12.00 just for the cards.
Continue reading Sightseeing in London? Use public transportation
