theOtherHolmes

Hi everyone,

I have about 105K AP points and my partner has about 50K. We want to book a trip either this summer or next summer somewhere in North America with our two year old.

This summer before August our baby will be less than two. Next summer she will require her own seat. We are ok with PE if flight is less than 5 hours.

We want to go somewhere that has really good food, ideally has some toddler friendly sights and activities. We don’t want to fly connecting or no more than 1 connection each way.

My partner can top up his AP account if needed with Amex.

We are based in YYZ, and have ruled out New York, Boston, or anywhere northeast (been too many times). Ideally we want to go somewhere that has a nice beach.

Ideas? We tend to AirBnB for stays with a toddler.

tracon

Anywhere with a beach.
That's all kids care about.

YXY in J would be good value.
Watch your kid throw rocks into a lake or bang sticks in the trees.

PEI is also good. Not good value for points redemtion though.
At the moment, J is cheaper than comfort YYZ-YYG.
I can recommend kid friendly Airbnb's at both places.

Vancouver Island.

jasdou

FLL, MIA, PBI, TPA, MCO, SFO, SAN, LAX, HNL, NAS, the list goes on and on. All non-stop from YYZ.

IluvSQ

Bermuda.

luvFclass

NAS or MIA. Stay at the GH Baha Mar in NAS, or the The Confidente Hotel by Hyatt in MIA. Plenty of beaches, amazing food and places to just zone out. Also keep in mind the traveling with child under 2 years old in lap seat is free (25/100$ fee on aeroplan rewards) rule. As long as trip is complete before 2nd birthday.

LondonElite

This. Just compare availability with expected ambient temperatures. Bingo.

theOtherHolmes

theOtherHolmes

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skylighter7867

I just have an exactly same scenario. We did Honolulu, HI. 45k for one account (in this case my wife) 90k for my account (Me and our 2 year old boy) Spent a week there and we loved it. We have way more points in amex but we figure 2 year old would not enjoy his own business seat and we are correct, as we can all sit together in a row and he sleep between us. We even stop over at LAX for a few days since aeroplan allow stop overs, as we never been there. Our flight is YOW-LAX-HNL, HNL-ORD-YOW You do not need to take the ORD flight if you don't want to but my boy survived the 8 hrs flight. (play, eat for 2 hr and sleep for 5 hr after, as it is an evening flight, they wake u up 1 hr before landing) For YYZ, there is a direct flight to LAX, or YVR, or SFO or ORD which all have connecting flight to HNL, if you are in to direct flight, there is 2 direct flight from YYZ weekly, but we figure it is too long of a flight (9hr+ flight time) 3 seats for economy is not too hard to find, You will have a lot of options. Scam charge only ~100 bucks or so per person, so it is not that bad. Not to mention it is one of the better use of economy class aeroplan ticket.

Hawaii has all the things Florida has and more (Unless u want Disney which I think 2 year old won't enjoy it, but u can still go Disneyland if you feels like it in this itinerary), we did a lot of beaches, some hiking, museum and a few farm tour etc. Kid love it and can't wait to go back.