School is out and the kids are wondering where the family truckster is taking them this summer. Well, if you want to avoid a repeat of the Griswold’s family vacation, check out Kayak’s Trip Ideas section. You’ll find hundreds of ‘top picks’ from a host of travel specialists along with some tried and tested suggestions from your fellow Kayakers. Why aren’t you there yet?

• Take a stroll down memory lane—make the memory a boardwalk. Our friends at the Travel Channel have ranked the country’s top boardwalks from Santa Cruz to Atlantic City. Spend a relaxing day on the beach, while the kids spend your quarters at the arcade. Fill up on cotton candy and salt water taffy but not right before riding the tilt-a-whirl. Wait, is that a tattoo on little Jimmy? Get the Fare Buzz for Best American Boardwalks from your home airport: Best American Boardwalks
• Every year, the folks at Travel + Leisure Magazine poll their readers for the “World’s Best Awards”. Those with highest rankings for family friendliness become the “T+L Family 50″. While some of the winners are home to that omnipresent mouse, the top 50 list is chock full of gems you might not have found otherwise from British Columbia to the Chesapeake Bay. Get the Fare Buzz for the top 10 Family Resorts from your home airport: Top 10 resorts
• Not really a beach or resort kind of family? You burn, your partner hates sand and your kids hug trees. We get it. Luckily, GORP has provided Kayak.com with a list of family-friendly rivers for kayaking or rafting. Take along a copy of Deliverance just in case your kids misbehave. Get the Fare Buzz for family-friendly rivers from your home airport: Ten Kid-Tested Rivers

See you at the House of Mud,
Steve and Paul, Kayak.com co-founders

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