Doing Pesach away from home used to sound like a contradiction. Pesach is the Yom Tov of home — your kitchen, your routine, your Seder table. But more and more families are discovering that Pesach in Lakewood, in a comfortable rental villa,…
Winter break has a way of sneaking up on families. One minute it's Chanukah, the next the kids are home for a week with energy to burn and you're wondering how to fill the days without losing your mind. Here's a thought:…
There is nothing quite like Chol Hamoed in Lakewood. The whole town seems to spill outside at once — sukkahs on every block, strollers three wide on the sidewalks, and a happy, buzzing energy that says everyone is exactly where they want…
Summer in Lakewood has a sound. It's the ice cream truck jingle drifting down the block at five in the afternoon, the sizzle of a hundred barbecues, and the happy noise of kinderlach racing their bikes down the sidewalk while the sun…
What do you get the couple who has everything? The parents celebrating forty years? The new mother who hasn't slept in three months? The in-laws whose anniversary is coming up and who absolutely, positively do not want "stuff"?
You give them a…
Ask any villa host in Lakewood who their favorite guests are, and you'll get the same answer: the ones who come back. Not just because repeat business is nice (it is), but because there's something special about watching a family make a…
The hotel room was $189 a night. That's what the website said, in big friendly numbers. By checkout, the bill was $347 a night. Nobody lied to you, exactly — but nobody told you the truth either.
Hotels have turned the gap…
"Sleeps 10" and "family-friendly" appear in just about every vacation rental listing ever written. But any parent who's arrived at a so-called family-friendly rental — only to discover that "sleeps 10" means four bunk beds and a pull-out couch, and "family-friendly" means…
It's Wednesday afternoon. The week has been a week. The kids are bouncing off the walls, you're bouncing off the walls, and someone — maybe you, maybe your spouse — says the magic words: "What if we just... got out of here…
Remember when "working vacation" was a contradiction in terms? These days, for plenty of us, it's just... the week. The laptop comes along, the calls happen between the pool and supper, and nobody thinks twice about it. The question isn't whether you'll…