Past Guests Blog Posts
If you waited for a Bargain, This is a Dream Come True
Now we have room for the Galapagos December 25 – January 2, 2010. – so exciting!
Winter Storms and Why We Include Travel Insurance
The dichotomy of a blizzard: It is beautiful, but at the holidays it is sure to ruin a lot of travel plans.
This particular holiday season was a traveler’s nightmare. In a small window of time we saw no fewer than 35 people lose their family holiday travel plans due to snowstorms, flight cancellations, and unexpected illness. That’s a lot of non refundable money!
Remember the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano?
…Well, so do Gayle Botti and her grandson, en route to Egypt. Thanks to luck, good humor, and our included trip cancellation insurance this story has a happy ending! Gayle is a travel agent at Let’s Travel in Santa Monica CA. Her specialty is ‘unusual trips’ – and this was no exception. Her letter follows…
Meet Our Pal, Barbara Ruttenberg
Another is our ocassional series of interviews with our past guests. Barbara began her Thomson travels on a Thomson Safari in 2000, and has been on 3 Thomson Family Adventures with her grandchildren since; and we hope there will be many more! How / when did you find TFA? My first trip with TFA was…
April 2, 2010
School of Thought: 8 Things Costa Rica Taught Me
Thomson Family Adventures partners with many educational institutions on the family travel programs they offer to their members. Thanks to Elissa Leibowitz Poma from the World Wildlife Fund Travel Program for sharing her blog post from her recent trip to Costa Rica: 8. Monteverde was founded by Quakers. Back in the 1950s, a group of…