Christmas Gifts for Travelers with Soul
December 14, 2009
Have you finished your holiday
shopping? If you find yourself stuck,
we have a few ideas that might please
Have you finished your holiday shopping? If you find yourself stuck, we have a few ideas [...]
Joy to the World
“It’s for a good cause.” The phrase played in my head on a continual loop as we wound our way slowly through the streets, the glowing lights from the Christmas display our only illumination. “Think of the kids.” I have passed [...]
About Disney Prep & Landing
Prep & Landing is ABC’s first television special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech [...]
Our family loves Christmas music . . . all kinds of Christmas music. However, our favorite type of Christmas music are those geared for kids. We usually find them to be fun, easy to sing along to, and
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Have A Fancy Yancy Christmas
by Yancy
Can you believe that Christmas is almost here?
To celebrate, Coca-Cola is giving away 50 video game prizes each day on My Coke Rewards in the “Give the Gift of Gaming Holiday Instant Win” game. In addition, you can also enter for a chance [...]
Going to Waikiki this Christmas? If so, you’ll find plenty of fantastic dining and entertainment options that’ll have you in the holiday spirit with a slice of Aloha. You’ll find everything from breakfasts with Santa Claus to lavish Christmas dinner buffets to holiday lights and [...]
Tired of the same old evergreen Christmas tree? BrilliantTrips.com has a neat photo gallery of unique Christmas trees around the world, like this one on O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland. [BrilliantTrips]
Baby Oranutan at the Phoenix Zoo
The Phoenix Zoo, which has been voted among the “Top Five Zoos for Kids”, once again hosts its annual Zoolights Christmas light display. From now until January 10th, from 6:00-10:00 p.m. nightly, patrons of [...]
Dutch composer, Raimond Lap, couldn’t find the kind of music he wanted his baby to listen to… so he created his own! Now this music is available to all of us who want high-quality, age appropriate music for our little ones to listen [...]
This year, inspired by our ever-popular "I Heart My City"
series on Intelligent Travel, we're reveling in the holiday season by
asking our readers to share their favorite ways to celebrate in their
cities. Today's city-lover is Aysegul Surenkok, who shows us what Christmas is like in Istanbul.
You'll Cut Your Finger Off, Kid!
My son wants a pocket knife for Christmas. He’s seven. And while I certainly can’t recall how old I was when I received my first pocket knife I can assure you that I wasn’t seven. “You’ll cut [...]
If you've been enjoying our My City Celebrates holiday series, here's some more Christmas cheer for your stocking. We've updated all of our outstanding World of Christmas blog posts from last year and organized them on this interactive [...] 
“Make Fragrance Your Centerpiece”
My take: There is no mistaking the time of year it is – Christmas and Chanukkah decorations are popping up everywhere. And if you are like our house, your lights are up outside and you’ve brought [...] 
Dora and Swiper explore the past, present and future of Christmas in Nickelodeon’s new hour-long primetime TV special, Dora the Explorer: “Dora’s Christmas Carol Adventure,” premiering Sunday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). The episode, which includes a special holiday version of the [...]
One of my kids favorite things to do is play video games. In fact, if I didn’t set some ground rules ahead of time I’m sure they’d play all day long. And since the game cartridges do not come a dime a dozen, Christmas is the perfect [...]
You may already recognize the name Stuck on You as a company that offers quality personalized labels. But did you know that they also have a great line of Christmas items as well? We had the opportunity to review a set of personalized [...]
Christmas Tree Constructed of 2500 Toothpicks. Photo use courtesy of Kauai Festival of Lights
The Garden Isle of Kauai is decorating for the Christmas season with their Festival of Lights that runs from December 4 – 24. This Christmas celebration was created by the community of Kauai [...]
Last year, in our "World of Christmas" series on the blog, we reached out to hotel insiders in a dozen cities to find out their top suggestions for celebrating the holidays. But this year, inspired by our ever-popular "I" [...] Family Travel Photo - England
December 1, 2009
As the Christmas countdown begins,
we remember this fun family travel
moment in the "heart of England"
As the Christmas countdown begins, we remember this fun family travel [...]
Every year the girls ask if we could put up Christmas lights outside our home but for some reason we just never get around to it. This year we’ve decided that we’re finally going to do it. So, this past weekend we went shopping [...]
I’m moving to New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s why.
Last year didn’t turn out as I had planned. This year I stopped planning and just lived, and in doing so finally created “The Good Year” that I had envisioned for a number of years.
My simple goal was to spend a year [...]
Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle
If you’ve never been to Disneyland during the winter holiday season, allow me to submit that a visit to the park at this time will cure your “been there, done that” blues. The enormous Christmas tree, the holiday music piped' [...]
Now that the Christmas season is upon us, it’s time to start practicing “Hawaii’s way to say Merry Christmas.” To set the mood, see this YouTube video of photos from Hawaii set to the classic Bing Crosby version of Mele Kalikimaka.
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The 45-foot rotunda tree in the Christmas Around the World exhibit
Experience the holiday traditions of over 50 different countries at the annual “Christmas Around The World and Holidays of Light” exhibit at the Museum of Science [...]
Whether I’m hosting Thanksgiving or Christmas for my extended family, one of the first things I do is plan the table. Where everyone will sit (especially kiddos), where food will be placed, and of course the table decorations. dabney lee AT HOME has created an amazing line [...]
