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Your Key to Unpacking Family Travel


Checking In is the place to check out detailed travel tips, destination inspiration and local insights for things to do. And it’s your place to dream about where to go next and find everything you’ll need to plan your next getaway.

All brought to you by real families and our very own family of Holiday Inn Club Vacations® travel experts.

Recent Contributors

Featured Contributor, Jessica Averett, wears a winter jacket, sunglasses, and white bike helmet while riding a Fat Tire bike in the snow in front of the mountains.

Jessica (@bring_the_kids)

Featured Contributor, Sally Butan of @butanclan (back) and her son, Alex (front), sit under the green canopy outside Cafe Du Monde eating powdery beignets at a white table in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Sally (@thebutanclan)

Featured Contributor, Angelica Kajiwara (right), and her son prep food in the villa kitchen of our Williamsburg resort in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Angelica Kajiwara

Author, Danny Pitaluga (left), his wife, Val (right) and son, Joey (middle), sit alongside the edge of our pool at our Orange Lake Resort located in Orlando, Florida.

Danny (@accessiblevacations)

Featured Contributor, Tina Meeks, poses with her daughter and sons on a Dumbo ride vehicle located in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World resort.

Tina (@herlifesparkles)

Raff with her family in the villa.

Raff (@raffinee)

The Haby family walk down Fremont street near our Desert Club Resort located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ashley Haby

Featured author, Andrea Beltran, poses near a creek wearing a blue hiking backpack and purple pull-up sweater.

Andrea (Team Member)

Featured contributor and Checking In editor, Tori Ferrante (left), and her husband, Brooks (right) stand on a beach in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Tori (Head Blog Editor)

Author, Brenda Rivera Sterns (right) holds her son (left) in the pool chair at our South Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Brenda (@she_plusfive)

Jennifer Harmon in front of a colorful wall.

Jennifer (Blog Editor-in-Chief)

Mindy McKnight (right) and daughter (left) sit outdoors on the hood of a white SUV.

Mindy (@mindymcknight)

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