Photos from the trips
Grabs from recent family trips — suites, pool decks, plane cabins, and the occasional jet-lagged kid asleep in a lounge. Full context lives in the reviews and trip reports.
All-inclusive pool deck at Dreams Playa Mujeres · Dreams Playa Mujeres, Mexico
Farmland + river scenery outside Vancouver · Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
Downtown Vancouver harbor views from the Bayshore · Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
Inner Harbour views from the Delta Victoria property · Delta Ocean Pointe, Victoria BC
Pre-flight setup at the Air Canada lounge in SFO · Air Canada Lounge, SFO
Green Lake on the way into Whistler · Green Lake, Whistler BC
Squamish Falls — a 15-minute walk and a real waterfall · Squamish Falls Provincial Park, BC
California Adventure on a weekday morning · Disney + DVC
Cobblestones in Old Montreal on a slow afternoon · Old Montreal, Quebec
A few trips behind the photos
Each of these stays has a full write-up somewhere on the blog — room category, points used, what worked for the kids, what we’d do differently.
Hotels our kids actually ask to go back to
The shortlist of properties where the pool, the buffet, or the room did something our kids are still talking about months later. Full reviews linked from each photo above.
Stays where points did the heavy lifting
Trips where we used our Marriott and Hyatt balances to punch above our weight. Each review shows the cash rate, the points rate, and our honest call on whether it was worth it.
The little details that made the trip
Sometimes the best part of a trip is a six-year-old’s verdict on breakfast smoothie shots, or a tween finding a lounge chair shaped like a clamshell. We chase those moments. skip.
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