How We Make the Most of Family Vacations

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Family travel comes in all shapes and sizes these days: Women Who Travel contributor Priya Krishna takes an annual trip with 20 of her extended family members; editor Megan Spurrell travels each July 4 with her sisters and mom; and editor Corina Quinn heads south, to coastal South Carolina, where her slew of nieces and nephews will be endlessly entertained. Truly experts when it comes to making everyone happy on long stretches of close family time, we asked these three how they survive—and even thrive—on their annual multi-gen trips. The key takeaways? Everyone needs alone time. Finding one spot to post up for the week or so you're spending together is much less stressful than moving between hotels. And trip planning is always easiest when there are fewer cooks in the kitchen (it's also a good time to hire a private chef). Listen in to this week's episode for more of their tricks.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler.
0:08.6	I'm Meredith Carey and with me as always is my co-host, Lolliara Coglue.
0:12.2	Hello.
0:12.7	This week we're talking about family travel.
0:15.0	Now this is not family travel with your own kids.
0:17.5	This is like surviving family travel when you, a fully grown adult, are the
0:22.1	kid, or at least the niece and nephew babysitter. We brought in a slew of editors and women
0:27.0	who travel regulars to talk about their own experiences traveling with their extended families.
0:31.1	We have Megan Sparell, our community editor. Hi. Karina Quinn, Traveler's Director of City Guides.
0:36.5	Hello. And Priya Krishna, a woman who travel contributor and author of the cookbook, Indianish. Hi. Karina Quinn, Traveler's Director of City Guides. Hello. And Priya Krishna, a woman who travel contributor and author of the hookbook, Indianish.
0:41.4	Hi.
0:42.1	So you guys have all taken some pretty massive family trips this year alone, let alone in the past.
0:47.9	So maybe starting with Priya, how does your family travel best?
0:51.5	Like what really works for you?
0:58.0	Like renting a house somewhere and having like that that central point where everyone can gather and kind of like choose their own adventure
1:03.3	for the day. But I think having like the central gathering place in a non-touristy locale is key.
1:10.5	Paint a picture for us.
1:12.0	How many of you are there, age range?
1:15.3	Oh, my God.
1:16.2	Are you in a van, a bus?
1:18.5	So, okay, one of the better ones was we found this house in Umbria in Italy, which is sort of like it's adjacent to Tuscany, but lesser
1:32.1	known.
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