About Plan Family Escapes
Plan Family Escapes is a family travel planning resource focused on helping parents make thoughtful, confident decisions about travelling with children.
We believe family travel is not about visiting the greatest number of destinations, but about choosing experiences that are genuinely meaningful, practical, and suitable for the family you are travelling with. Travel changes when you have children, but it does not have to become more complicated. Our goal is to provide guidance that helps families navigate travel planning with clarity, realism, and confidence.
The content here is written with the assumption that parents are making important decisions about where to travel, when to travel, and how to make those trips work in a way that balances adventure, comfort, cost, and child wellbeing. Rather than focusing on tourism promotion or lifestyle travel storytelling, Plan Family Escapes focuses on practical insight.
Where possible, we include considerations about how children may experience destinations and activities, particularly during the school-age years when travel can support curiosity, independence, and engagement with the wider world.
We are particularly interested in family travel that combines exploration with practicality — destinations and experiences that offer meaningful adventure without becoming unnecessarily complex to organise or manage.
Our Perspective on Family Travel
We write primarily for parents who want travel to remain part of their family life rather than something that must be paused or abandoned after having children.
School-age travel is a particular focus because this stage often represents a unique balance between child independence and family connection. Travel at this age can offer opportunities to explore culture, history, and nature in ways that children can engage with more actively.
Our aim is to help parents think carefully rather than travel impulsively, and to support planning decisions with realistic expectations rather than promotional narratives.
What You Will Find Here
The site focuses on providing practical and thoughtful guidance on family travel planning, including:
Destination suitability insight for children
Detailed family itinerary guidance
Accommodation and activity evaluation
Cost awareness and logistics planning
Child experience expectations
Honest travel perspective writing
The goal is to help parents make better informed travel decisions.
About the Author
Plan Family Escapes is written by Clare.
Travel has been a long-standing part of my life and personal learning journey. My first independent long-haul travel experience was flying to Australia at thirteen to visit a school friend. That experience influenced how I view travel — not simply as leisure, but as a way of understanding the world. Travel has remained an important part of life through different stages of adulthood and parenthood.
When Mark and I began travelling together, skiing became a shared interest. When our son Joshua joined our family, travel became something we planned around rather than paused. Joshua’s first long-haul trip was at three years old, and travel has continued to be part of our family life.
Like many parents, we were told that travel would become more difficult after having children. Our experience has been that travel requires more planning and consideration, but can also become more meaningful.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you choose to book through them, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. We only recommend services, accommodation, and products that we would genuinely consider using for our own family travel.
Join Us
If you find the content helpful, you are welcome to follow along, share your experiences, and let us know what travel topics you would like to see covered. At the heart of Plan Family Escapes is one simple goal: Helping families realise that meaningful, adventurous travel with children is not only possible — it can be truly incredible when planned well.