Travel Deals For Expectant Parents

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

13 Aug 2007 11:56 PM

I've written about Babymoons in previous blogs, but this is one deal for expectant parents that's hard to pass up.

First, the setting is hard to beat---Honolulu, Hawaii. If you can't find serenity in this island paradise then you may be in for a real shocker when your new bundle of joy arrives. Second: Free goodies.

Here are the details on the hotel deal:

W Honolulu Diamond Head (located at the end of Waikiki) is offering a "Baby Me" travel package for parents-to-be. It includes room, daily breakfast, and a gift basket filled with essentials for your new arrival. The goodies include: a cotton Whoops Baby Onesie outfit; two items from the hotel's Womb Service Menu; a copy of the "Modern Girls Guide to Motherhood" book; a one-year subscription to the hip parent's guide to parenting, Cookie magazine; a Skip and Hop "Duo" diaper bag; a six-month membership and gifts to modernmom.com (valued at $75); and Bliss Foot Patrol, an AHA exfoliating and softening cream with aloe leaf and peppermint.

And the hotel hasn't left out couples that are trying for parenthood. It is also currently offering a "Baby Me" package, which is available through April 30, 2008. The rates for the package reflect a more than $100 savings on rooms. A night for a "Wonderful" category room, which usually goes for $495, is listed at $315.

If you plan to take advantage of the hotel deals in the next couple of weeks might I suggest taking in a unique activity that has its roots in Hawaii... and provides lessons on the value of teamwork, which is so critical in the parenting process.

On August 23-25 the International Surfing Association is presenting the World Title of Tandem Surfing Contest. The world's best tandem surfing teams will return to the sport's birthplace---Waikiki to show off moves you don't see everyday. The event is part of the Duke's OceanFest Celebration.

If you've never seen a tandem surfing contest, you don't know what you've been missing. The sport involves style, grace and skill. It's akin to pairs figure skating or ice dancing... only the couples are executing their moves on a single surfboard while riding waves in the ocean. Teams consist of one female contestant and one male contestant, with the woman being lifted over the head of the man where she strikes intricate poses while her partner maneuvers the board.

More than a dozen teams from around the world will compete for the title. By the way, tandem surfing began at Waikiki in the 1920s, when Duke Kahanamoku and his fellow surfers took women out on the waves to teach them how to surf. Back then the guys found it easier to manage the surfboard and the weight of two by hoisting the women on their shoulders.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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