Travel insurance that safeguards a trip is a good idea for anyone, but even more so for families with young children.

When your kids are small, you never know what the day many bring: for example, chicken pox, the day before you’re leaving on a holiday.

Types of Travel Insurance

Trip Cancellation
If your seven-year-old gets chicken pox and you have to cancel your holiday, part or all of it may be non-refundable. Trip Cancellation Insurance will reimburse you for the non-refundable portions of your trip.

Trip Interruption
These policies reimburse you if your trip is cut short because one of the travelers has an accident or serious illness. You’re also protected if you have to fly home because of a serious illness, or death, in your immediate family.

Note:

• policies for these types of travel insurance must sometimes be purchased at the time you buy your air tickets, or within a few days of purchase
• trip interruption travel insurance is usually much cheaper than trip cancellation coverage
• Club Med guests are required to buy a “membership” when booking a holiday; the good news is that certain travel insurance protection is provided too

Sept 4 – Sept 7th, 2009

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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.

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.

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.

Based in Dallas, Pennsylvania, Adventure Family Trips provides a new specialty online adventure and tour travel agency that focuses on families traveling with children. Destinations featured on the site are in the Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia Regions and packages can be tailored to include a variety of activities and needs. The owner of Adventure Family Trips, Kate Burnside, explains that, “The success of your trip will come from planning; at Adventure Family Trips, we will do all the planning and you can have all the fun!.”

A vacation specialist will be available from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Monday through Friday, toll free at 1-888-267-4725. If customers have any additional questions outside of daily operating hours, a vacation specialist is available 24/7 at kate@adventurefamilytrips.com and also through their website.

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