Affordable Family Vacation Package Ideas

Affordable Family Vacation Package Ideas

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For families who want to visit to the internationally popular Disney theme parks and locations, or for those who would prefer an adventure to America's great outdoors, there is a variety of ideal vacation package options that are abundant and affordable, offering the chance to make lifelong memories.

Disney

Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel Complex
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel Complex

Disney Cruise has an exciting free offer. For travel between Jan. 7 through April 18, kids travel free, with balcony suites starting as low as $679 per adult (children range from 3 to 12 years old). Suites sleep three to five passengers. The package includes three nights, with round-trip travel from Port Canaveral, Fla., that includes ports of call in the Bahamas and Castaway Cay, Disney's private island. There are three restaurants on board, as well as a spa, numerous bars, enrichment activities, shows and a sports deck that includes basketball courts, volleyball courts, soccer net, shuffleboard, ping pong and a one-third-mile-long running track.
Disney Cruise Vacations
Guest Communications
P.O. Box 10238
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
(800) 951 3532
disneycruise.disney.go.com

Walt Disney World Dolphin has packages that begin at $384 per person with round-trip airfare from Chicago to Orlando included, for a stay in a traditional room with two double beds. The hotel offers complimentary transportation to all Disney World resorts, theme parks and attractions, and it is located between Epcot and Disney Hollywood Studios. This beachfront property has 17 restaurants and lounges on its property along with five swimming pools. Though tickets to the Disney Theme parks are not included in this rate, four-day tickets for anyone over the age of 10 are $56.25 per day, which gives you access to a theme park a day.
Walt Disney World Dolphin
1500 Epcot Resort Blvd.
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
(407) 934 4000
swandolphin.com

Great Outdoors

Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon

Holiday Inn Express and Suites Grand Canyon is $530 per person for five nights with a car included in this round-trip rate from Washington, D.C., to Phoenix, Ariz. The hotel is one mile from the Grand Canyon National Park South Rim entrance. Continental breakfast is free from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Queen rooms have an occupancy maximum of four.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites
Grand Canyon Hwy 64, P.O. BOX 3245
Grand Canyon, AZ 86023
(928) 638 3000
grandcanyon.hiexpress.com

Pigeon Forge, Tenn., is along the Smokey Mountains and where at Legacy Mountain Resort the Tennessean cabins sleep six and have an indoor jacuzzi and fireplace, with prices starting at $139. Pigeon Forge boasts that "dozens and dozens of popular attractions, rides, amusements, theaters, museums and gift shops line the five-mile main parkway through town, all serviced by trolleys." Dollywood is another local attraction.
Legacy Mountain Resort
1735 Upper Middle Creek Rd.
Sevierville, TN 37876
(865) 934 1353
legacymountainresort.com

Mexico

Mayan Palace Wyndam Acapulco is $600 per person for five nights, round-trip from Los Angeles to Acapulco, Mexico, with car included. There are eight restaurants on the property. Amenities include an aquatic park, 18-hole golf course and a fully supervised kids club that offers age-appropriate activities.
Mayan Palace Wyndham Acapulco
Av. de las Palmas No. 1121 Fracc.
Playa Diamante, Acapulco 39900
011 (+52) 744 469 6000

Article Written By Dionna Harding

Based in St. Louis, Dionna Harding has been writing professionally since 2009, penning articles and information for various websites. Harding holds a Master of Educational Administration from the University of Missouri-St.Louis.

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