KidzCruises
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Well, simply put, my family love to travel; my husband Huw and I used to be journalists covering both the cruise and hotel industries. In 2015, while on a pre-inaugural media cruise, we spotted a new market trend towards families taking cruise holidays, and cruise lines designing ‘family friendly’ ships… so we initially set up a blog called KidzCruises, to focus on this specific sector of the cruise industry. Our children are now 15 (2006 born) and 13 years old (2008) – they have been on cruises with us before, so the topic was one we were all very interested in.
But as with all websites, over time you diversify and head in directions you hadn’t initially intended. With KidzCruises this happened after joining the Parent Blogging and Family Travel Blogging communities. These connections led to opportunities for us, as a family, to experience events, activities, and land (as well as water)-based breaks and holidays. We also find it great fun to review gadgets and gifts … all items that are of interest to our main audience of course (that being UK-based parents). As a result of this widened focus to encompass everything ‘family travel’, we relaunched our blog as PackThePJs in February 2017.
We are truly a ‘family collaborative blog’. Source
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