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Everything we have written,
and what is coming.

Six clusters, all of them built around the same starting point: a family of four leaving from Boston Logan inside a fixed school vacation week. Published pages are linked. The rest is the plan, in the order we are writing it.

Cluster one

School vacation week travel
from Boston.

The franchise. Massachusetts hands every family the same two weeks, the dates recur every year, and nobody currently owns the question of where to go given those dates and Logan. Local news answers a different question: what to do in Boston.

Cluster two

Nonstop from Logan,
filtered for families.

You cannot outrank Massport on the raw route list and there is no point trying. What nobody publishes is the same list filtered by the things that decide a family trip: season, flight time, red-eye or not, passport or not.

Published · maintained
Every nonstop from Logan

All 60 international routes sorted by season, passport and vacation week, with the six recently dead routes named.

Planned
Boston to Europe, ranked by how they go with kids

Same routes, ordered by what the flight is actually like with children rather than by distance.

Planned
The Boston red-eye to Europe

It is shorter than the west-coast version, which sounds like an advantage and is not. Six hours is four hours of sleep and a 7am arrival.

Cluster three

Orlando money,
Europe instead.

Published · needs its cost table
Disney World or Europe?

No dedicated article ranks for this anywhere. Page one is four forum threads. It is the largest gap we found in the whole research pass.

Planned
What a week in Europe actually costs a family of four

The cost question, answered with our own receipts. The current SERP is two blog posts and a lot of forum threads.

Cluster four

Paris with kids.

The one cluster where the destination is the topic. The gap is a specific age band: baby and stroller content is saturated, teen content exists, and the walking-age years in between are thin. That is the band we are in.

Published
Paris with kids, the real way
Planned
Paris in February vacation week

Everything ranking today is French-local content for people already in Paris. Nobody is writing for the Massachusetts traveller.

Planned
What a week in Paris cost us
Planned
The Paris metro without a stroller
Planned
Boston to Paris overnight, and arrival morning
Planned
Where to stay in Paris with four people
Planned · feeds the book
Books about Paris for kids

Nobody searches for Rosie in Paris by name. They search for this.

Planned · feeds the book
Getting your kids excited about Paris
Cluster five

New England,
without a flight.

Boothbay Harbor was the only drivable trip on the site for a long time, and it proved the format works. This cluster is everything else within about three hours of Logan that deserves the same treatment.

Published
Weekend getaways from Boston, ranked by drive time

The shortlist: Boothbay Harbor, Cape Ann, Newport, Cape Cod, the Berkshires and the White Mountains, ranked by how far and how walkable.

Planned
Maine with kids, beyond Boothbay Harbor

The strongest ranking cluster on the whole site is a single town. This is everywhere else on the Maine coast worth the extra drive.

Planned
Fall in New England with kids

Where we actually go for foliage, timed for October search interest and written around the same walkable-town filter as the rest of this cluster.

Clusters six and seven

Canada, and the
unglamorous logistics.

Planned
Boston to Montreal with kids

The drive, and where to stop. One genuine firsthand piece ranks for this today; the rest is auto-generated.

Planned
Quebec City in winter, and Montreal compared
Planned
Flying out of Logan with kids

Terminals, security, food, and where to actually wait. What ranks today is a limo company and two parking sites.

Planned
A child's passport in Massachusetts

How long it takes, which post offices, and the both-parents-must-appear trap that catches people out.

Planned · affiliate
How many eSIMs does a family need in Europe?

Every page ranking for this is an eSIM vendor's own blog. Nobody independent has tested it across a family.

Published
Boothbay Harbor, Maine

The drivable one. About 3 hours up the coast, no airport involved.

Questions

What families ask us.

How do you decide what to write about?

Business value first, then whether we can realistically win the search, then whether anyone is already answering it well. Search volume comes last, because the highest-intent questions a Boston family actually asks are exactly the ones that keyword tools systematically under-report.

Why is everything written around Boston?

Because flight routing out of Logan decides the dates, the arrival time and half the budget. A guide written for a Newark departure is a different guide. Narrowing to one airport is what lets us be specific enough to be useful rather than generically correct.

How often do you update these guides?

Anything with a route, a price or an opening time carries a verified date, and the route pages get re-checked before each Massachusetts school vacation week. Two airlines serving Logan have gone out of business since 2025, so this is maintenance rather than housekeeping.

Free guide

The Boston family flight guide.

Which routes run year-round, which are summer only, how far ahead to buy for a school vacation week, and the order we book a trip in.

Or have us plan the whole trip from $499.