Pick the Place, Pack Your Bags, and Let’s Go! - Family Vacation Blast With PickPackGo
If you haven’t watched Chevy Chase in National Lampoon’s “Vacation” and not recognized your own family in the Griswolds, then you haven’t taken a real family vacation. Because no matter how carefully you plan, chaos will befall you - although hopefully it won’t be as extreme as the chaos that the Griswolds seem to attract.
One great new way to plan for your next family vacation is the travel website PickPackGo. Specializing in vacation rentals - condos and homes in popular destination areas - PickPackGo is an exhaustive source of information, from descriptions to pictures to rates.
If you’ve priced hotel rates lately, you know that they often run more than $200/night. That’s for a single room with a couple double beds, indoor plumbing, and some cheesy artwork on wallpapered walls. No kitchen, no washer and dryer, and no privacy - everyone goes to bed at the same time, praying that sleeping children aren’t disturbed by guests in adjacent rooms (and likewise, that children who refuse to sleep don’t disturb other guests). Doesn’t sound much like a vacation, does it?
That’s why rentals are so attractive to families. Not only can you spread out and truly make yourselves at home (with a box of instant mac-n-cheese for the kids and a box of wine for the adults, natch), you actually don’t spend nearly as much on your accommodations or your meals. Which leaves more money to be spent on cheesy souvenir t-shirts, right?
And although getting there is half the fun, as the saying goes, it’s often significantly more stressful for families, regardless of their means of travel. So PickPackGo has donated a portable DVD player to be awarded to the randomly chosen winner of this Blog Blast.
So how do you get that DVD player, you ask? Details below:
1) Today, September 28, before midnight PST, write a post about your family vacations - past, present, or future. We want to hear about family vacations that you’ve taken with your own children or vacations you remember from your childhood - and tell us how you plan to keep your family vacations from turning into misadventures worthy of Clark Griswold! Title your post creatively and descriptively.
2) In the text of your post, link to PBN (http://blog.parentbloggers.com) and PickPackGo (http://www.pickpackgo.com/family).
3) Send us the link to your post (email to parentbloggers@gmail.com).
We’re rounding up all the posts right here, and we’ll draw one winner at random (http://www.random.org is the website we use) who’ll get an 8″ Sony portable DVD player that you can use whether you travel by plane, train, or automobile.
Get writing, and then get reading! These stories are fantastic!
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