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Welcome to The Family Travel Guy!

Experiential Family Travel, Done Better

Real trips. Honest reviews. Proven strategies to help families travel better - maximizing points and miles, booking the right hotels, and creating unforgettable experiences your kids will actually enjoy.

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Making core memories, one trip at a time

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About Me

Randy runs the travel website The Family Travel Guy and The Family Travel Bulletin, which aims to inspire wanderlust in families to explore the world together.

This travel site features hotel reviews, family travel tips, destination guides and expert travel insights to help you travel better, travel smarter and optimize for value along the way.

Aerial view of Venice, Italy showing the Grand Canal with boats, historic buildings with red-tiled roofs, and the Santa Maria della Salute basilica with its large dome, in the background is the lagoon and the open sea.
A man in a black and gray jacket and a black cap standing among pink cherry blossom trees, smiling while looking upward.
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Tokyo: Where Tradition Meets the Future 🇯🇵 From the energy of Shibuya Crossing to the immersive experience at teamLab Borderless, this city constantly shifts between fast-paced and unforgettable. We explored different neighborhoods across the cit
A full day at the Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan 🇯🇵✨ From rope drop at Tokyo DisneySea to a park hop over to Tokyo Disneyland, this was one of those days where we tried to do it all. We grabbed Disney Premier Access (DPA) for a few rides, stopped f