Hi- I am hoping to celebrate a big birthday next year with a week long family trip to Europe . We haven’t decided on anything yet, but are thinking of possibly Paris or Italy. The group of 11 includes three kids , ages 5-10, and 6 thirty year olds and 2 sixty year olds. We are all fit and active. Has anyone done such a trip ? Or thoughts about where to get information ? Any ideas are welcome. Thank you
Noreen
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What kind of information are you looking for? There is more online than you could ever read, plus guide books with very organized info.
You are on the right track to pick one place. How to coordinate with that many people is another story! Start thinkg now about how you will conduct things--do you all have to stay in the same place, do the same things, who will pay?
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I would start with a list of places you can fly to directly from your home airport. A week is not a lot of time, so you don't want to take any chances on connecting flights or long train rides.
Decide if you want to all stay together (one big apartment or villa or 4-5 rooms in the same hotel) or just nearby (maybe one family has an apartment large enough to gather and the others are nearby in their own hotels/apartments). If you want to stay in one big place, that might be harder to find/afford in Paris than in "Italy," whatever that means.
If you want help in planning it, you can work with a travel agent. These days, you pay them directly.
Or you could arrange a custom tour with a tour operator like https://adventureswithsarah.net. Sarah Murdoch is a former RS guide who has her own company. She is an expert on Rome, having lived there as a student. She often led the "family tours" for RS and just did a custom family tour that she posted about on social media. She offers a Rome "staycation" that you could look at customizing for your family.