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The Age-Appropriate Vacation

Aaron Leighton

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Which trips are right for your gang, and when? Presenting a Travel + Leisure Family guide to the best, most seamless getaways—wherever your kids stand on the growth chart.

From April 2006

By Meg Lukens Noonan

When it comes to family travel, one size most definitely does not fit all. The needs of parents making their first anxious foray with a baby are very different from those of a well-traveled clan with high-energy grade-schoolers. And what about families grappling with a teen for whom one wrong move (admit it, Dad, grabbing the karaoke mike was a mistake) can spell M-O-O-D? To understand the requisites—and foibles—of every age group, we polled child-development specialists, travel agents, outfitters, and our own readers and staff. Here, a vacation road map for the years ahead—parental sanity guaranteed.

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