Looking to spice up your family adventure travel plans this summer? Adventure travel planning does not have to be complicated! Maybe you won’t be jumping out of any airplanes this summer, but family travel, be it with toddlers, tweens, or teens, can still be exciting!

Quick Adventure Trip Ideas for Families

• E-bike Tours: Explore scenic routes in Turkey and Greece with electric bikes, making cycling accessible for all ages and fitness levels.
• Water Sports: Engage in family-friendly activities like snorkeling, kayaking, and stand-up paddleboarding along the Aegean coast. Keep the energy up while varying paces is okay!
• Cultural Hiking Adventures: Combine light hikes with cultural exploration in regions like Cappadocia, offering educational experiences for children. Hands on culture is key for kids!
• Glamping Experiences: Enjoy the great outdoors with the comforts of home through luxury camping options suitable for families. Time together at its best!

Let’s take a look at these activities and how to incorporate into your family vacation!

How to Add Adventure to Multigenerational Holidays

The first step to incorporating exciting activities in your family travel is to realize that adventure travel with kids is not really any more difficult than “regular” travel with kids! For example, say that you are going to travel somewhere with your toddler and plan “sedate” activities like visiting museums. You still have to wrangle a possibly grumpy toddler through the museum or get a high-energy kid to stay calm in a child backpack carrier.

You are already corralling kids! All you have to do is shift the location or activity to have some adventure! Not to mention, if you do something active, like hiking and walking tours or watersports in the morning, your kids will burn off a bunch of energy and will be much more likely to quietly enjoy a museum in the afternoon.

Family Adventure Vacation Ideas

Your family vacation does not have to be all go go go to be adventurous. Choose a location where you can easily incorporate more energetic activities with some down time. Below are some examples of adventure travel trips appropriate for all ages:

• Cycling holidays: While cycling tours can involve more strenuous uphill cycles, they can also involve easier, for all fitness and age levels, cycles without inclines or tough trails. For the little ones who can’t cycle, bikes can easily be fitted with trailers or child seats.
• Water sports: Engage in watersports on holiday by booking surfing or snorkeling lessons. Vacation spots along the Aegean specialize in water activities and schools offer lessons for all ages. For example, travel Turkey’s stunning Turquoise Coast and enjoy opportunities for windsurfing, snorkeling, diving, kayaking, and more! Or choose Greece travel for the stunning northern Aegean islands!
• Hiking and walking tours: Similar to cycling holidays, hiking and walking tours do not necessarily mean climbing mountains. Trek the majesty of Turkey’s Cappadocia, the Cairn Coast, or the Northern Aegean Greek islands.   
• Camp out: Camping is often overlooked as a trip idea when traveling abroad, but many countries offer opportunities to sleep under the stars! If you want to take things up a notch with more luxy travel options, glamping or “glamorous camping” has become very popular as well.
• Road trips: Renting a car gives you and your family the freedom to tailor your trip any way you want. You can plan your route to focus on your family’s interests, be it ancient ruins, wildlife, activities, or sports.

Top Tips for Multigenerational Adventure Vacation Planning

You can’t make everyone happy all the time, especially when trying to find activities to please everyone during multigenerational travel. Here are a few tips and tricks you can employ to make most people happy most of the time.

• Include your whole family in the planning process. Try to let everyone pick an activity to do during your trip.
• Even if you’re super fit and can go for ages without stopping, remember that not everyone in your family may be able to do so, especially if you have littles or grandparents with you. Keep things at a pace that everyone can enjoy. Stop during a hike or bike tour to enjoy the scenery (and have a small break!). Remember, this is very much about the journey and not the destination.
• Make things into a game. Kids getting bored while you’re exploring some ancient ruins? Make a contest out of finding the most headless statues. How many fish can you spot while kayaking? Learn some weird trivia about your location to share with your kids.
• Incorporate trying new foods as part of your vacation.
• HAVE FUN!! Parents often forget to actually have fun and enjoy themselves on a trip, because you are, after all, not on vacation from parenting. However, if you’re having fun and enjoying yourself, your kids will catch your enthusiasm!

Your Family Adventure Awaits!

Working adventure into your family holiday may take some extra planning, but it doesn’t have to be stressful. At Roots Adventure Travel, we specialize in adventure for all ages. Let us help you plan your trip and, after you arrive, our expert guides will take over and guide you on the adventure of a lifetime!

Get in touch with us now to book your dream adventure.