UnTours Managing Director Emily Schulman recently traveled to Portugal with her family, including her 5-year-old. Here are a few family-friendly ways they found to slow down. Portugal is wonderfully kind to kids. On a recent family trip to Porto, Sintra and Lisbon (a quick day trip from Sintra) with our five-year-old, the highlights were…
Tell people you’re taking your teenagers on a family trip abroad and watch their faces wince. The one that says good luck with that. We took ours, ages 13 and 16, to Central Scotland this past summer with UnTours, and I’m here to report back from the other side: it was one of the…
Some trips you plan. Others feel like they’ve been waiting for you. Ours was the second kind. In 2024, we went to Budapest as a family — three generations of us, my mom included, whose own parents were both born in Hungary. We didn’t travel there to see Budapest so much as to feel…
Some travelers come to us knowing exactly what they want. Others arrive at UnTours through something harder to name — a feeling, a hunch, an answer a grandson gives when you ask him where he’d like to go. Germany. And what would he like to do there? Just be there. So wise. If you’ve…
A Thanksgiving meal of rice, beans, and chicken, garnished with ample helpings of freshly picked avocado? A pre-meal hike to a secluded waterfall instead of the traditional backyard football game? Recovering from the holiday gluttony on a lounger at an empty beach instead of dozing on the couch squeezed between wiggly toddlers and snoring grandpas?…
Costa Rica has a way of quietly commandeering everyone’s full attention, no matter their age. It’s not a country you visit so much as one you absorb. And for families traveling with UnTours, that absorption happens at exactly the right pace: unhurried, rooted in one home base, with your UnGuide just a call away when…
When Marcia and Dan Brown set off for Switzerland in the summer of 2024, they weren’t just traveling with their daughter and son-in-law—they were introducing their two granddaughters to a world of alpine magic. “Switzerland, specifically Meiringen, was our home base in two lovely apartments, one on top of the other,” says Marcia. “Meiringen…
At UnTours, we believe travel has a ripple effect—it connects generations, deepens family bonds, and leaves stories that live on long after the suitcases are unpacked. Few stories capture this better than that of long-time UnTourist Sue Hamilton, whose family’s travels to Switzerland span three generations. What began as one man’s remarkable wartime journey has…
My son, Simon, is no stranger to hiking. He was born in the Rockies and spends his summers traipsing through alpine meadows with his hiking poles, looking for marmots, and learning about wildflowers. He’s an eager adventurer and has already racked up some serious miles in his short life. But he’s also four. His…
Vickie Kelber is a faithful UnTouris alum and a contributor to the UnTours blog. She recently shared these memories from Switzerland. My husband and I have traveled to Switzerland more times than we can remember! Many of our trips have been with UnTours. Our first trip with UnTours was in 1991, back when it was…