Top 10 Most Popular Travel Mamas Blog Posts – Year One
By: Colleen Lanin, The Travel MamaMarch 29th, 2010
I waded through a sea of Google Analytics to tally up the most popular Travel Mamas blog posts of the year. (Since I rename my posts from time to time, this was no easy feat!) Some of my personal favorites were also the most popular, but a few of my faves were among the site’s least viewed stories. This got me thinking…what is YOUR favorite Travel Mamas story? If you tell me, you might win a gift certificate from KidsTravelHappy.com, a site that specializes in UNplugged toys, games, books, activities, and unique gear for real and imaginary journeys. Read on to find out how to win!
Below is the list of the most popular blog posts on Travel Mamas during the site’s first year. Granted, the numbers aren’t necessarily “fair” because stories that have been around awhile have had more opportunity to be read than those that were just posted last week. Sorry, blog posts, no one said life was fair!
Top 10 Most Popular Travel Mamas Blog Posts
1) 10 Best Family-Friendly Hotel Pools in the World
3) Nickelodeon Suites Resort–A Family Hotel with Amusements Galore
4) Why We Travel with Children
5) The Best Travel Toys & Activities for Kids from Babies to Teens
6) How to Survive Visiting Family During the Holidays
7) Mother Knows Best: An Old School Road Trip
8) Top 10 Disneyland Rides & Attractions for Babies & Toddlers
9) Do You Care About Keeping Your Child Safe When Flying?
10) The Bright Side of Flying with Kids
My Top 5 Personal Favorites
1) The Travel Mama’s Top 3 Hidden Gem Destinations
3) Why We Travel with Children
5) Roar & Snore Campout at the San Diego Wild Animal Park
What You Could Win
To celebrate the Travel Mamas one-year anniversary, Monday through Friday of this week (March 29 – April 2, 2010) you can win prizes from KidsTravelHappy.com for voting for your favorite “something” on Travel Mamas (such as your favorite: feature, blog post, travel tip, travel trivia question, and guest blog post). The prizes will increase in value each day. Every time you enter, you will automatically be entered to win the grand prize $50 KidsTravelHappy.com gift certificate and a pack of goodies from the Travel Mamas Store to be awarded this Saturday, April 3, 2010.
Today you can vote for your favorite Travel Mamas blog post to win a $15 KidsTravelHappy.com gift certificate. You can also save 20% at KidsTravelHappy.com. Simply use the special check-out code just for Travel Mamas, TMSD20. The code is valid on any purchase of $20 or more now through April 3, 2010.
Here’s just one sample of what you could buy with your gift certificate and/or discount!
The Greatest Dot-to-Dot Books
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Enter to Win
You can enter today’s contest a total of two times. This contest ends at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The winner will be selected at random using Random.org and will be notified by email. If no response is received within 48 hours, the first winner will forfeit the prize and another entrant will be selected. Here’s how to enter:
REQUIRED ENTRY - THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED. Add a comment below about which blog post on Travel Mamas is your favorite AND WHY. You can choose one of the stories listed above or any other post listed on the Blogs & Trip Reports page. Don’t forget to include WHY this story is your favorite!
BONUS ENTRY - Tweet this contest. Copy and paste the following phrase into Twitter. Be sure to add a second comment to this post with a link to your tweet.
Win $15 today at @KidsTravelHappy for travel toys for real & imagined journeys on @TravelMamas
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My fav post is the one about ‘How to plan a disney vacation’ because I am trying to do just that and had no idea where to start! And this post really helped me!!
Thanks Travel mamas! I have many other favorites but this is my #1!
I loved the nickelodeon suites post because i learned all about the awesome
stuff they offer for families and now I wanna go!!
How to Survive Visiting Family During the Holidays (or any other time for that matter)
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I enjoyed the Travel Mama’s Top 3 Hidden Gem destinations, I’m putting the boundry waters canoe area BWCA MN on my trip list, thank you!
I went ahead and picked from the list because honestly I could have written this post… Mother Knows best old school road trip… I tend to hmmm over pack where the kids are concerned and then use maybe half (ahem one third) of the stuff… Might have to remember to add that wine bottle for the next trip… We travel a lot…
My vote is for Why We Travel with Children. It was good to reminded that traveling with children is really special even though it can be tiring. It’s special to spend time like that together! Thanks!
Tweet! Thanks!
http://twitter.com/Molomatic/status/11334560222
My favorite is the how to survive visiting family during the holidays as this is one of our biggest travel seasons and always stressful!
Thank you for all of your votes! It’s fun to read which posts you like and why!
A winner of this contest was selected at random and notified by email. That person is…Molomatic! Congratulations!