Founded by parents with a passion for family travel and experience vacationing with infants to teens, FamilyTravel.com is dedicated to making family travel fun and rewarding for the entire family. We believe finding and booking family friendly travel should be simple and straightforward.

Our own unsuccessful on-line attempts to find free, accurate, comprehensive family travel information and simple reliable on-line booking inspired FamilyTravel.com. Our goal is to bring the best family travel information, ideas and booking directly to you.

Pam Plesons is the Founder and President of FamilyTravel.com. She founded FamilyTravel.com in 2001, realizing that her true passions were her family and travel. She and her husband have traveled extensively with their two children since they were infants. Sharing her knowledge and experiences as a means to inspire families all over the world to learn and grow through travel has become her goal. Prior to this she owned and managed a large Speech-Language Pathology practice, working with head-injured patients for 16 years. Pam and her family are currently on an extended sailing trip. Visit her log ( find the link on the home page ) to learn more.

Lynn O'Rourke Hayes is the Editor of and a partner with Pam Plesons in FamilyTravel.com. She also writes a weekly Family Travel column for the Dallas Morning News and is a contributor to TravelMuse.com. She has spent more than 25 years writing and speaking about travel and family issues. She has worked for two hotel companies and consulted to numerous other organizations within the travel industry. She and a partner organized a 24-day, around the world golf trip on the Concorde. She has written a book about balancing work and family and contributed to several others. A member of the Author's Guild, her articles and comments have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal and The Arizona Republic. She's appeared on The Today Show and numerous other television and radio programs. Her passion for travel has taken her to more than 28 countries, down rivers, over mountains, through jungles and to 48 of our 50 states. But her favorite trips - business and pleasure - are those that include her husband, one, two or all three of her children. She resides in Scottsdale, Az and Bozeman, Mt.


Rebecca Kochenderfer is the Senior Editor and Co-Founder of Homeschool.com. With over 2 million visits a year, Homeschool.com was named the #1 homeschooling site on the Internet and one of the Top 45 sites overall by Forbes Magazine (2001). Rebecca is also the co-author of Homeschooling For Success: How Parents Can Create A Superior Education For Their Child (Time Warner). Rebecca believes that traveling with your children is one of the best educational advantages you can give them so she travels as often as she can with her husband and three young children. She speaks Japanese and some German and has lived in Japan, Germany and the Caribbean.

Kim Foley MacKinnon is a Boston-based journalist, editor and mother. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe and many other Massachusetts publications, as well as various websites. She is the author of "A Parent's Guide to Boston," a great resource for residents and visitors alike, detailing more than 200 activities and sights in Boston. Traveling is her passion, which she loves to share with her four-year-old daughter, who has accompanied her on many trips, including all across the United States, to Italy, Canada and Puerto Rico (so far).

Warmest regards and happy traveling!