4 Family Vacations

Choosing your family's vacation accommodation is just one of the many tasks in planning your vacation. While most people think only in terms of either hotels or resorts, there are many other options available. Each type of lodging has advantages and disadvantages. To help you choose the best place to stay for your family, 4 Family Vacations has gathered informative articles on various types of accommodations with tips and advice from travel industry professionals.

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Types Family Vacation Accommodations

Choosing a Family Vacation Accommodation

There are many things to consider when choosing an accommodation for your family vacation. While a hotel may have more amenities, staying in a home, whether rented or through a home exchange program, offers more physical space and greater privacy.

The first step in choosing your lodging is to determine how much you have to spend. Knowing your budget will help you eliminate some of the options. High-priced accommodations include all-inclusive resorts, sailboats, spas and yacht charters. Low-priced lodging includes bed and breakfast, camping, dorm rooms and home exchanges. The rest are somewhere in between.

Next, consider your lifestyle. If your family isn't attracted to rugged settings, you can pretty much eliminate campgrounds, dude ranches and hostels. Anyone in your family have motion sickness? If so, you can strick out any kind of boat.

Check what accommodations are available at your travel destination. Now that you have reduced the list down somewhat. Use it as a guide to find lodging options at the destination of your choice. While you may have interest in staying in a castle, there may not be one available where you are going.

Below is a list of a wide range of accommodations in alphabetical order. Not all, however, will be suitable for your family. Use the list as a guide. You may want to add more accommodations to the list from your family's travel experiences.

• Apartment
• Bed and Breakfast
• Campground
• Castle
• Condo / Condominium
• Convent
• Dorm
• Dude Ranch
• Farm Stay
• Guest House
• Home Exchange
• Hostel
• Hotel
• House Boat
• House Sitting
• Inn
• Lodge
• Log Cabin
• Monastery
• Motel
• Recreation Vehicle - RV
• Resort
• Sailboat
• Spa
• Temple
• Time Share
• Vacation Rental
• Villa
• Yacht

To learn more about each type of accommodation and lodging options in various popular travel destinations, read some of our family vacation accommodation articles.