What types of accommodations are more suited for families?
Well, accommodations are interesting because you travel very differently when your kids are 2 and 5, as opposed to when they're 12 and 15, for example. When the kids are very little, it's nice to have a place to warm a bottle, so having a kitchen is nice. When they're older, in fact, as teenagers, it's nice to have a kitchen because they eat all the time. But it's also nice to have extra space. I always say that all suite hotels were really designed for families, because they have a little bit of everything. They don't have a big kitchen, but enough that you can store things, that you can make breakfast, or whatever. However, that doesn't always work. Sometimes it's nice to have a hotel room. Sometimes you want to rent a house. Sometimes you want to have a condo. It really depends, often on how old your kids are, and also on the venue where you're going to. I, for one, am not a big fan of renting condos as they don't make your beds for you most of the time. I don't want to go on vacation and make beds. But it's really up to everybody - every individual. Space is always important because one of the things that I find very interesting is that the travel industry seems to think that it's an amenity that your kids stay free in the room. We don't live in one room as a family, so why is it an ammenity to share a room with your kids? Having two hotel rooms is probably more expensive than renting a condo, which is a major reason why people don't stay at hotels and do stay in condos and in en-suites - because they have that extra space, and it's a similar price.
