NEW YORK - Christine Louise Hohlbaum and her husband took their children to Venice when they were 2 and 4 years old. Looking back, she wishes she'd waited until they were a little older.
"It was expensive, they were cranky and we said next time we'd go without them," said Hohlbaum, who lives in Germany and blogs about life as an American stay-at-home mom abroad at diaryofamother.blogs.com.
Despite, or maybe because of, the hassles, businesses that cater to families traveling abroad are booming. A 2006 survey of AAA Travel professionals found that 42 percent were booking more international trips for parents with children under 18.
