For a limited time, you can purchase a Season Pass for only $89.00. We also offer discounted rates on both general admission tickets and lodging! Call or email us for more information.Don’t forget that the Crossings are just down the road and the Deleware River provides lots of fun and adventure too!
1.888.267.4725
We went to visit Camelbeach Waterpark and Resort this past weekend for their Grand Opening. Thought the temps weren’t too warm, we had a great time. From the lazy river , to the wave pool, the boys had huge smiles! They also had a great time at Big Pocono Mining. I never thought mining for rocks in water would be of such interest. They didn’t want to leave! So …HINT TO PARENTS: don’t miss that attraction! My boys are 6 & 9 and were there for 20 minutes and more if I didn’t want to get back to the slides! It is perfect because it is right near the food so you can enjoy food and drinks while you watch them dig for crystals & jewels.
We have Season Passes for only $89.oo available for a limited time and great discounts on general tickets. Call now to get your reservations and don’t forget they have lodging that is slopeside!
1.888.267.4725
SPLIT ROCK RESORT AND GOLF CLUB is offering a great package for families for JULY 4th…from Friday July 3rd through Monday July 6th but you have to hurry because spaces are limited!!
Package includes:
Deluxe Accommodations • Full Breakfast Daily • Mini Golf Ticket per person • Fireworks on Friday with Entertainment • Saturday Night w/Lakeside BBQ • Doc Holiday’s Legendary Activity Schedule
rates starting at
$105.00
per person | per night | double occ
Children’s Rates: $20.00 – per child, per night, same room
Additional Adults: $25.00 – per night, same room
Don’t forget the NEW INDOOR WATERPARK!!
Call, email or visit our website for more information or to book your family adventure NOW!
1.888.267.4725
kate@adventurefamilytrips.com
www.adventurefamilytrips.com
CAMELBEACH RESORT AND WATERPARK will have it’s GRAND OPENING MAY 23RD!!!.
“A Salute To Military Families” MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2009
• A portion of the proceeds will directly benefit
the mission of “Operation Military Kids”.
• Ticket specials
• Fantastic Food
• Military themed events & programming
• Chances to win great prizes
Hours of Operation will be from 11a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sundays thru June 13.
Stay tuned as we will soon have specials posted. Accomodations will include townhomes with views of the park at great prices!All you and your family have to do is come to enjoy great times and lots of fun at Camelbeach Resort! VOTED #1 WATERPARK IN PA…..come out and see all of the new attractions!
The Camel is the place to be! So tell your friends, family and co-workers….’MEET ME AT THE CAMEL!”
WOODLOCH RESORT……JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!
SUPER SUMMER SPECIAL IN YOUR OWN GUEST HOME LOCATED IN GOLF COMMUNITY
20% savings now through July 21st, 2009 call Adventure Family Trips now 1.888.267.4725 to book your vacation in a beautiful Woodloch Springs Guest Homes. Woodloch Springs is located in our award-winning golfing community only a few minutes from the Pines Resort. Your classic vacation includes breakfast and dinner daily, use of amenities, endless activities and nightly entertainment at Woodloch Pines. All the privacy and freedom of a personal vacation home with complete access to an exceptional resort experience.(You must book by June 15th, 2009)
Woodloch Resort Receives 2009 BEST GREENS RESORT Award
Woodloch Pines Resort was honored by the Global Renewable Energy Expo Networking Summit April 16, 2009 for demonstrating ingenuity, creativity and perseverance in the pursuit of pioneering green goals. The award recipients were honored during the Greens Award – Earth Day Celebration in Macungie, PA.
Introducing SOUTHWOODS. Woodloch’s newest addition conveniently located on the resort’s bus route. These Guest Homes offer first class amenities in a quiet, private cul-de-sac nestled in the woods. The tri-level houses have 4-6 bedrooms with 5 1 ⁄2 bathrooms, cathedral ceilings, fireplace, and many additional amenities. They provide the comfort of a beautiful luxury vacation home with the benefits of a full service resort. They are perfect for extended families and special group gatherings.
This offer is for a limited time only. These homes are spectacular and the golf course is one not to missed this summer. So whether it is for MEMORIAL DAY, FATHER’S DAY OR FOURTH OF JULY, call or email us now to get your reservation in. Reunions, families, groups or corporate retreats…..WOODLOCH IS THE PERFECT PLACE!
1.888.267.4725
WWW.ADVENTUREFAMILYTRIPS.COM
Woodloch Resort is a haven for outdoor adventure and is like a cruise on land! They have been voted “ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST ALL-INCLUSIVE RESORTS” by Family Circle Magazine.My two boys and I visited the resort just before Christmas and it was beautiful! There was so much to do from the time we woke until bedtime and it was a truly wonderful vacation.Of course, they not only did not want to leave but wanted to know when we could go back as we were getting in the car.
WOODLOCH is offering a great vacation for families looking to get away and enjoy a weekend filled with fun and memories…
MEMORIAL DAY-May 22-25….3 nights, 9 meals. Cookout and carnival with all of the lake activites included. New 2009 Theme Show. Included at no charge….Indoor Splash Park, Bumper Cars, Indoor Pool, Activity Schedule, and Nightly Entertainment. Starting at 696.00
Call now to get your reservation to this truly remarkable resort we are so fortunate to have in the beautiful Poconos! You will want to return every year!
Split Rock Resort is known for its endless amount of activities.With the addition of the NEW H2ooohh! INDOOR Waterpark…there is even more to enjoy. Spend this MEMORIAL DAY at this fantastic resort. Super Saver Packages include deluxe accommodations*breakfast daily*movie ticket per person*FREE bowling,tennis,basketball,billiards,racquetball per person* Doc Holiday’s Legendary Activity Schedule* Saturday Night BBQ with Entertainment. All starting at $118.00 per person.
Call now for reservations 1.888.267.4725 or email us at kate@adventurefamilytrips.com.
You can also visit us on the web at www.adventurefamilytrips.com.
April 13
By Sheena Delaziosdelazio@timesleader.com
Staff Writer
DALLAS – With so many family vacation hotspots nearby, Kate Burnside recently decided she could use that to her advantage.
On March 26, Kate and her mother Daylene held a grand opening of their Web-based travel agency specializing in arranging getaways suited to families.
“I had the idea for Adventure Family Trips on the way home from a ski trip in 2008,” Kate Burnside said. “That idea became a reality as I decided to leave my job in pharmaceutical sales and start my own company.”
Adventure Family Trips specializes in organizing fun-filled family trips to local and regional attractions such as Big Boulder/Jack Frost and Sno Mountain.
“As a single mother of two young boys, I felt I needed to do something that would involve them and provide them with a better lifestyle,” Burnside, 38, said.
Daylene Burnside has extensive experience in the travel industry and was a national sales manager for a wholesale tour operator. Daylene and Kate also have skied a great deal in the northeastern and western United States.
“She’s been my mentor,” Kate said of her mother.
When planning a 2008 vacation with her sons, now 6 and 9 years old, Kate Burnside had difficulty finding a travel agency that could plan a trip for her and her children. She decided to take planning into her own hands. “The trip was a success, but only because of all the time I spent doing the necessary research to make the trip run smoothly,” she said.
Burnside decided she could help other families through her own business.
Adventure Family Trips, based in Dallas, provides families with information ranging from prices of ski lift tickets to family-friendly lodging.
Burnside’s Web site also lists local eateries and directions and specifications about each location, such as the 33 trails located at Camelback Mountain Resort and its 50 inches of snow annually.
Several locations listed on Burnside’s Web site are also summer hot spots with water parks. Burnside said she is looking to add Red Rock Resort, Hershey Park and several other regional destinations to her list of places to go.
For families traveling in the spring and summer, Adventure Family Trips offers tips and tricks to planning a getaway, activities to do when finally there and what to bring and to leave home.
Burnside said she feels that shorter family trips are the way to go now with the slumping economy.
“There are so many memories to be made, so consider taking your children on an adventure,” Burnside said.
Booking a family trip?
Visit www.adventurefamilytrips.com
or call 1-888-267-4725.
If your job often makes you feel tired, burned out, or stressed to the max, try a new bathrobe on for size. February 9, 2009 is the seventh annual “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day,” a time to celebrate the freedom home business ownership offers people. Everyday an increasing amount of working parents are waving goodbye to the pressures of the corporate rat race and settling into a more balanced and better quality of life…working from home.
Local entrepreneur, KATE BURNSIDE has been working from home in (DALLAS since (JULY), providing Online family travel planning for those who wish to make arrangements to the local resorts in the Northeast Pennsylvania Region). “Webmomz has given me the support and guidance to be able to do so. There are so many online resources to choose from and I am able to do it right from home! As a single mother I was doubtful but there are many others out there in my position that I can now relate to thanks to Webmoz.com.,” says Kate Burnside.
Kristie Tamsevicius, co-founder of Webmomz.com, a site that empowers women who have chosen to work from home, views having a home business as the ultimate life balancer. “Some people may think that living and working under the same roof creates more stress, but in fact, just the opposite is true. Working from home gives you the freedom to schedule your work around your life, rather than the other way around. That way you can create a life that you truly love.”
And the home business bug isn’t just biting American workers. People in England, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand are celebrating the power of the bathrobe and taking control of their workday and financial future.
Considering that the average worker spends up to 12 hours a day focused on work-related activities, often skipping lunch due to job demands, it’s no wonder that many people feel out of balance. So for the millions of people who have dreamed about a home based business and the opportunity to finally have some life balance, February 9, 2009 may be the perfect day to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and map out a new business plan—one that makes the bathrobe your power suit.
On the day, Webmomz.com will hold a random drawing for a bathrobe and a host of other prizes. Register online at www.businessinyourbathrobeday.com.
Not babysitting: Lessons are geared to children.
By: Val Geist | Special to The Morning Call
January 16, 2009
You’re never too young to start skiing, according to skiers whose children are learning to make turns and have fun on the snow at local ski areas.
Howard Bonk of New York City has been skiing in the Poconos and elsewhere all his life.
Now he has a new partner to join him on his mountain adventures. His 8-year-old daughter, Hannah, is literally following in his tracks.
”We started her out in a papoose at Elk Mountain, but we got kicked off after three runs,” Bonk recalled of his first time taking his 2-year-old onto the snow in a backpack-like carrier. ”The next year, we put her in the Scout Ranger program at Elk and the first year she learned all the basic skills plus the Skiers Code.”
In the last five years, Hannah has advanced to the ninth level of achievement as classified by the Western Standards taught at Colorado resorts such as Buttermilk in Aspen, where she attends ski school at least one week annually outside of her time at the Pennsylvania resort. The highest level is 10, said Bonk, who said Hannah is skiing everything on the mountain and just lacks more experience in powder and bumps.
”She follows me everywhere now and she doesn’t miss a beat,” Bonk said.
Jim Mancuso, ski school director for Elk Mountain, says the program at Elk is not a childcare or babysitting service.
”It’s an outdoors program,” Mancuso said.
The lessons are designed to teach children to ski and board using games and familiar toys such as hula hoops to encompass their tiny bodies and keep them from getting away from the instructor, Mancuso said. Devices such as the Edgie Wedgie, a rubber band-like device that holds the ski tips together, also are used.
”The first thing we teach is the wedge. The device keeps them from pulling their skis away from each other and helps the children to use the correct muscles and strengthen them,” Mancuso said.
The focus is on fun at Big Boulder and Jack Frost, sister resorts in Lake Harmony and Blakeslee, according to Jack Frost’s ski school director Patrick Terry, who has been starting skiers at the Pocono resorts for 21 years, and has taught children and adults.
”Kids are like adults in a lot of ways and they do want the same things, but they want to do it on their own,” Terry said. ”There is a lot more demonstration involved with children, where adults need a little more of an explanation.”
Jack Frost and Big Boulder offer a package that includes a lift ticket, rental equipment and a three-hour lesson for $80.
Children are grouped according to age, and then within age groups and experience, Terry said. He said the youngest lessons are for skiers age 3 to 4.
”It basically just introduces them to the snow and then we teach them how to use the Magic Carpet lift,” he said. A Magic Carpet is an escalator that moves people up the mountain and is easier to learn to ride than a chairlift since it just involves standing in place as it moves up the mountain, Terry said.
The young skier program is not offered at most resorts, Terry said.
”It’s to get them out on the snow with ski equipment and work on basic movements,” he said.
Later, the children advance to the program for 5-9 year olds, when the goal is to get them skiing. The older children are taught to stop and turn, and eventually, ride the chairlift.
Focusing on the kids
Kate Burnside, owner of AdventureFamilyTrips.com based out of the Poconos, works with local ski areas to create ski vacations for families with children. She is also the mother of two young boys who are learning to ski and snowboard.
As a single mother, Burnside says she knows the importance of traveling with children and selecting destinations where youth activities are the focus.
”Big Boulder definitely has one of the best ski schools for beginning youngsters,” she said. ”I look for the instructors, I look for the terrain and I look at the programs. At Big Boulder, the instructors are one on one.”
Burnside said she grew up skiing at Elk and takes her children there as well.
”I remember looking at the bigger lift next to me and thinking someday I’ll be on that lift to the top of the mountain,” she said. ”Besides the bunny hill, Elk has some of the longest beginner trails in the Northeast that are safe for kids to ski.”
Ski school directors at both mountains offered the same tips for parents.
”The biggest tip,” according to Terry, ”is that they research the program they want to come to, know what the lesson times are and make sure they dress their kids properly.”
Elk’s Mancuso agreed.
”Children should be wearing the same clothing as their parents, dressing in layers and waterproof pants and jackets and should wear helmets, goggles and sunscreen,” Mancuso said.
