The good news is that with many types of holidays, single status has little negative effect: car trips, camping, Disney theme parks, Disney resorts and other lodgings priced by the room, even European odysseys (where hotel rooms are simply priced by number of beds) -- there are many situations where neither price nor social ease is affected much by being a solo parent with kids.
Many families, however, dream of a Caribbean resort, or a cruise... and on these popular types of holidays, being a solo parent can mean a whallop to the pocketbook.
For advice about these situations I turned to Sally Black, the prime mover at VacationKids. Vacationkids specializes in family holidays, and is making efforts to provide choices for single parent vacations.
First question on the list: how does being a solo parent typically affect pricing on a holiday?
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- p.2, pricing issues for single parent vacations
- p.3 social ease on single parent vacations
