Travel Reviews

  Dear Baby Gizmo Family, In the last 21 days, I had no idea how much fun that I would have with you on your big journey from Illinois to North Carolina. To my surprise, the Southern Caribbean just happened to be on the route but I’m not complaining. I knew the little guy still …

While visiting London, even in summer, you need to have an idea of what you will do when it rains. With two small children, we decided to make a trip to Gambado, an indoor play center in London. Fun is not enough to describe how great this place is! Seriously, the kids loved it! The …

Of course, the day that the kids try to sleep in past 8am, I have to wake them to get ready to go on a port excursion. I think that is part of Murphy’s Law or something. It is Day 4 of our Carnival Freedom cruise and it was another port day. Today we docked …

It is Day 3 of our Carnival Freedom Southern Caribbean cruise and we had a bit of a slow start this morning. One word of advice when traveling with kids, especially on a cruise, it to try to keep as close to their normal sleep schedule as possible. Sure, there are people like my brother …

This week we are traveling on the Carnival Freedom cruise ship on an 8-day southern Caribbean itinerary. We will be visiting Grand Turk, La Romana (Dominican Republic), Curaçao, and Aruba. Even though today is technically Day 2 on the cruise, I’ve decided to start the journal today on one of our at sea days.We are …

Our journey from Chicago to North Carolina is in full swing! Sure, it seems like we have been moving since January (which is completely true!) but we didn’t actually leave Chicago until a couple of weeks ago. We spent two weeks with family in St. Louis on a mini-pitstop in our journey, but we waved …

Not every How-To Monday will be focused on something to make your life easier. There are some weeks that we just want to show you how to have more fun doing something. Since we visited the St. Louis Zoo last week during our journey from Chicago to North Carolina (yes, we went a little out of …

I’m currently visiting my family in my hometown of London, England, and things are different now that I have kids. My 1.5 year old son and 3.5 year old daughter don’t want to know about the restaurants and coffee shops mommy loved to hang out in when she was young, they want to run around in an open …

Last week, we had an amazing time during our visit to the Beaches Resorts in Turks & Caicos for the official grande opening party for the resort’s newest Key West Village. While the main purpose of the press trip was to attend the grande opening party with 54 other members of the media, we made …

I come from a huge Disney loving family. I don’t remember my very first trip to Disneyland because I was a newborn baby. I’ve had annual passes my entire life. Now that I have my own child, we go weekly. We travel to Disneyworld in Florida every other year. It’s just our thing. Disney, we …

UPDATE (June 7, 2021): This post has been updated to reflect current content and offerings. We just returned from a trip to Beaches Resort in Negril, Jamaica. There was so much fun, family-friendly things that we did, that I’m going to try to condense it into one post. If you are looking for an all-inclusive …

Beaches Resorts is one of the most family-friendly resorts I’ve ever been to. I’m talking about water slides, lazy rivers, shows for kids, tons of pools, swim-up ice cream bars, Sesame Street characters, playgrounds, rooms (suites) with separate bedrooms, Xbox center, DJ booth and tons of other activities. This week I was invited to the …