GRANDTRAVEL
Phone: 1- 800-247-7651
Website: www.grandtrvl.com/aarp
Member Benefit:
Save $200 per person per tour vacation – for grandparents and grandchildren ages 7-17. Plus, look for special deals for AARP members on specific departures and destinations.
How to Book or Request a Catalog:
Contact your travel agent or call GRANDTRAVEL at 800-247-7651. Have your AARP membership number handy at time of booking to get your discount. Note: The AARP member discount is not available for group bookings.
Welcome to the world of GRANDTRAVEL, Luxury Vacations for Grandparents and Grandchildren, the originator of tours for grandparents and grandchildren since 1986. Respectfully aware of the profound relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, GRANDTRAVEL is dedicated to enriching this unique bond through innovative, educational itineraries from Alaska to New Zealand and Washington to Italy.
The GRANDTRAVEL experience offers a wonderful way for grandparents and grandchildren to bond across miles and time and to create lasting memories. As travel companions, grandparents and grandchildren share the excitement of visiting far-away lands, discover the secrets of ancient cultures, and make friends worldwide. There is no better way to convey a cultural inheritance and a lasting legacy to your grandchildren!
GRANDTRAVEL, A Cultural Inheritance
According to Webster, a culture is "the totality of socially transmitted patterns in arts, beliefs, institutions and all other products of human behavior and thought characteristic of a community and a population."
Transmitting these characteristics to grandchildren is a practice of grandparenting, and not an easy one.
At GRANDTRAVEL, a division of Academic Travel Abroad, our sophisticated travel professionals have worked hard to produce a travel experience that will appeal to grandchildren and make absorbing new cultures enticing to them. Our integrity, honesty and experience of more than 50 years recognize respectfully your intentions to pass on a cultural inheritance. With your help, we will work together to encourage the intellectual development of your grandchildren.
The GRANDTRAVEL Program
Developed by a team of teachers, psychologists and leisure counselors, GRANDTRAVEL is dedicated to helping grandparents create lasting memories for themselves and their grandchildren. We know that when grandparents and grandchildren travel together, they are drawn closer and relate to each other in remarkable new ways. GRANDTRAVEL expands the world of grandparent/grandchild relationships. And, you needn't be a biological grandparent to participate; surrogate grandparents, such as aunts, uncles and friends, are welcome.
Honoring a grandchild's graduation, celebrating a school award or remembering a special birthday are all terrific reasons why grandparents should encourage special trips with a grandchild. But, whether the trip is a reward, an incentive or another expression of love, it is always and foremost precious time together.
GRANDTRAVEL journeys provide the world's newest traveling companions with:
- Itineraries that stimulate curiosity encourage exploration and discovery and are fun-filled.
- Private time together -- an important part of the experience.
- Opportunities to relate to each other on an intergenerational level and to connect with the family's past.
- Peer activities, where, at some times during the trip, grandchildren will enjoy activities only with other grandchildren and grandparents only with other grandparents
How to Book or Request a Catalog:
Contact your travel agent or call GRANDTRAVEL at 800-247-7651. Have your AARP membership number handy at time of booking to get your discount. Note: The AARP member discount is not available for group bookings.
Current Itineraries include:
July 14-23 and August 4-13, 2009
July 6-17 and August 3-14, 2009
July 18-27 and August 1-10, 2009
July 5-17 and July 19-31, 2009
July 3-9 and July 11-17, 2009
AARP Member Benefits are offered by third-parties through contractual arrangements with AARP Services Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AARP, or by AARP Financial Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AARP Services, Incorporated.
