Why Single Parents Pay More to Travel
June 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under Travel Advice
By Jennifer Doncsecz
Solo parents face special issues when traveling, such as: how will a vacation be priced, given that rates are usually based on two paying adults? And how comfortable will a parent feel, if most other vacationers are two-parent families?
The good news is that with many holidays, single status hardly matters: car trips, camping, Disney theme parks, even European odysseys (with hotel rooms priced by number of beds) — there are many situations where neither price nor social ease is affected much by being solo with kids.
Many families, however, dream of a Caribbean resort, or a cruise… and on these holidays, being a solo parent c
an mean a whallop to the wallet.
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