soccorsilly Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 I am new here and a single dad with three kids. Last year, I discovered a wonderful program to take kids on vacation called Single Parent Tours. They arrange all types of off the wall trips (mostly weekend/long weekend due to time and $$) but a few longer ones. I did a weekend to the Rocking Horse Ranch in New York and it was a great time for my kids and me. They have one in Jamaica this summer, but I need to look at the calendar to see if we can swing the time and dollars. Just thought that others might be interested. It is run by a woman/author who wrote a book called The Single Parent Travel Handbook and she accompanies all of the trips--very enlightening and nice to mingle with people in similar situations. They do have a website called http://www.singleparenttours.com and I believe there is a link to their Single Parent Travel site which is a forum type site like this. I found it very helpful and informative and thought if anyone is traveling... Link to post Share on other sites
Arabess Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 GREAT LINK! I saved it! I'm going to check it all out today. It's quite a coincidence since I sent LFW (my Shacker buddy!!!) a long email this morning suggesting she bring her kids ( the very same age as mine) to Florida for a vacation this summer. I guess several of us Moms were starting to think about what we could AFFORD to do. It's always about the MONEY....haha! I live near the beach in Florida and am only 1.5 hours from Disney World and the whole Orlando extravaganza. We are real fortunate. We HAVE talked about a Las vegas vacation in the next couple of years though. Link to post Share on other sites
Author soccorsilly Posted March 24, 2004 Author Share Posted March 24, 2004 One of the nice things is that the programs I went on, really designed it around the family. There were adult times, together times, and just kid times. Brenda (the author) always says a "kid friendly" place is more than just a kids program and a few video games. My kids had a great time and we keep in touch with new friends from California and New York. I just booked the Jamaica trip--I figure I can get a refund if needed up to a point but wanted to save the space. The people they deal with who handle the reservation seem great--thorough and going out of their way to help. And the deposit was cheap--like $238. Now need to search Orbitz to see how much that will cost for the four of us to fly! YIKES! Link to post Share on other sites
MollieMaMa Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 I went on Single Parent Tours' Rocking Horse weekend trip last year. My daughter and I had a great time. We were with about a dozen other families and made a few friends. It was not nice not to have to be the *only* single person in a group of couples. It makes my daughter think we are weird because she only has one parent. Link to post Share on other sites
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