Enhance Your Family Trip with Viator Tips

The world’s leading online travel experience resource, Viator.com, helps individuals enhance their vacation experiences through a special summer series called Viva la Viator. Focusing on a different theme or destination each week, Viator encourages individuals to get more out of their vacation experience by exploring outside the box.

In August, Viator chose a theme of “Family Friendly Experiences”. Researching top destination cities, Viator featured tours and activities that families could find and book ahead of their visit to the area to maximize the time spent there. Some of the findings Viator highlighted were:

*St. Maarten Pirates Day cruises from Phillipsburg, St. Maarten; two sailings daily at 9am and 12:30pm. Feel like a pirate onboard a ship with billowing sails on the Caribbean waters as you glide along the waves for 4 ½ hours. Anchoring down, you have the chance to walk the plank, snorkel and enjoy water activities. Food and drinks are served throughout the trip.

*Harry Potter fans will love the Harry Potter Black Taxi Tour in London, England. Diagon Alley, where all school supplies are bought by Harry, Ron and Hermoine as well as the rest of the Hogwarts class, is the first stop. Take a trip through the wall to arrive at Platform 9 ¾ , visit the Leaky Cauldron and the headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix, plus many other stops visited in the books and movies.

*Orlando, Florida is the place where teens 16 and up can become an astronaut for a day. ATX, or Astronaut Training Experience, gives individuals a real taste of the space flight experience, lasting 4 to 5 hours.

*Become a dolphin trainer at Cabo San Lucas; swim with the dolphins and spend the day shadowing professionals wearing a uniform that is yours to keep as a momento. Lunch is provided, and you’ll also receive a DVD capturing your antics in the water.

These experiences and many more are available for families traveling all over the world. Viator.com specializes in researching these finds and bringing them to the attention of families in order to help enhance their vacation experiences.