Tours: Adventure Center, Hundreds of Ways to Share the World with Your Kids.
Fun, easy and, surprisingly affordable - imagine finding a menu of family vacation choices which span five continents, each one tempting and all surprisingly affordable. From Europe to Asia and Africa to the Americas the options are varied and well-suited to a family adventure.
About the Adventure Center: The Company is dedicated to enabling travelers with children to enjoy some of the Africa’s best adventure travel experiences at affordable prices. They are dedicated to providing you with world-class adventure travel experiences at affordable prices. For more than 30 years their philosophy has remained the same: to enable travelers to immerse themselves in the country they are visiting; to learn to appreciate its people, cultures and wildlife and the delicate balance necessary for their coexistence.
Here's the scoop. They are dedicated to enabling travelers with children to enjoy some of the world's best adventure travel experiences at affordable prices. Each trip has its own unique rewards, and every itinerary has been carefully planned utilizing years of specialist adventure travel know-how to provide families of all age combinations with the ultimate family adventure vacation. Choose from a global selection of trips, and travel with a small group of like-minded families from various English-speaking countries. Sleeping arrangements vary by trip and offer families a variety of local style accommodations including hotels, guesthouses, pensions, hostels, home-stays and of course camping. Most hotels are tourist class, offering clean secure accommodation but with few amenities. Whichever trip you choose you can be confident it will be an experience you and your family will talk about at school, at home and work for a very long time.
Bonus points: Some trips even have specific departures for families with teenagers, or for single parents traveling with their children. Need to know: All trips are conducted in English. The groups vary in size from eight to 24, many participants are British, but other nationalities include Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Europeans, and of course Americans.
Just the fun stuff. Naturally adventure activities vary by destination and vacation season. Choose from a range of more than a 1,000 adventure vacations worldwide including hiking and biking trips, cultural tours, kayaking, sailing, whitewater rafting, camel treks, elephant riding, jungle excursions, tree-top canopy walks, bamboo rafting, beach time and African safaris.
Value added: They do the details for each family adventure. A pre-departure information packet is mailed to you once you and your family are confirmed on your trip. It includes a suggested packing list (less is more) and suggests that soft-sided luggage if preferable. They customize each itinerary to meet the needs of its participants and are often able to offer flights at significant discounts even if a stopover is involved. If you are seeking low airfare just ask one of the Adventure Center travel experts.
Eco-friendly green marks: By choosing to be a traveler through Adventure Center, and not a tourist, you already do more than many people. While their suppliers take great care in creating trips that respect, protect and benefit all the communities they work with, certain environmental impacts of global travel are unavoidable.
Need to know: They contribute to organizations like Climate Care, who enable “carbon neutral” travel. (For details go to www.climatecare.co.uk.)
Destinations: The family adventure vacation options span the globe including five continents, 56 countries and hundreds of departures including special trips set aside for single parents and unique departure dates for families traveling with teens.
We have divided the adventure vacation options into short geographic lists to make each offering more visible. Click the location of choice and you go to the master menu on the
www.adventurecenter.com/activity/family
Europe: Family trip locations include: Andorra, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Eastern Europe: Family trip locations include: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
Asia/Pacific Rim: Family trip locations include: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Borneo.
Africa: Family trip locations include: Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Tunisia. Middle East: Family trip locations include: Cyprus, Jordan and Oman.
Central/South America: Family trip locations include: Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Mexico: Family trip locations include: Cancun, Costa Maya, Tulum, Chichen Itza, Merida, Hol Box, and Isla Mujeres.
Western Canada: Family trip locations include: Vancouver, Calgary, Banff, Sulphur Mountain, Emerald Lake, Clear Lake, and Jasper. USA: Family trip locations include: Nevada, Arizona, Utah, California, and Florida. Caribbean: Family trip location is Jamaica.
Adventure Center 1311 63rd Street, Suite 200, Emeryville, CA 94608 USA. Toll-free 1-800-228-8747, 1(510) 654-1879 or
www.adventurecenter.com
Content researched and created by Travel Communications. Images provided by Adventure Center. Copyright 2009.
