The Luxury Vacation Is No Longer About Escaping Your Children
Yes, traveling with kids is hard. But new hotel offerings — and shifts in how we parent — are making it a lot more fun, too
Illustration: Daukantė for Bloomberg
My 6-year-old daughter is sitting on the swim platform of the Princess Grace, a grand 65-foot catamaran. Her hair is wet and her face streaked with tears.
From the water below, I use my most encouraging, least pressuring tone to beckon her into the ocean — underneath us, I tell her, are sea turtles. Real sea turtles! (She’s obsessed with sea turtles.) And parrotfish! (Today she’s obsessed with those too.)