✈ Alternative Bucket List Destinations for Multigenerational Trips (AARP Article)

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These Travel Dupes Offer Bucket List Experiences for Multigenerational Trips.

Consider four destinations that put dream trips within reach.

By Rebecca Treon, AARP. Published July 01, 2024.

Bucket list travel experiences — seeing the aurora borealis, visiting the pyramids, hot-air ballooning over Cappadocia, Turkey — can present multiple challenges. My 76-year-old mom’s dream trip is an African safari, but the idea of going on a 19-hour flight with my two teenagers is more like nightmare fuel than fun. Families who want to take these dream trips together find the thousands of dollars it takes to make them a reality far out of reach, while long-haul international flights are hard on older adults and kids alike. In addition, a dizzying roster of vaccines are recommended for many destinations, and for those with health concerns like my mom — COPD and limited mobility after a double hip replacement — adventure travel in a different time zone is too strenuous.

One of travel’s biggest trends in 2024 is “dupe travel” — finding a destination with similar characteristics as a more popular one but without the downsides of high prices and overcrowding. For multigenerational travelers, travel dupes offer families the opportunity to have bucket list experiences within reach.

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