QUOTE(carmenyta @ Jul 15 2016, 11:50 AM)
Ah yes, gold coast will definitely be in the list. went there about 20 years ago. of all places i've been to thus far, australia is still my favourite.
My kids don't watch animes except digimon and pokemon. Can get those in Osaka? I think there's one place in Japan that sells those toys right?
Might not make it this year, prolly the next year but definitely will be in the year end. My kids do want to experience snow. Like real snow, not I-city snow.
Did you go on your own or follow those tours?
Are there any other places you would recommend?
Yah, Osaka Denden town have all those Japanese toys. My son is 9yrs old and he fancy Gundam only. We went diy ourselves. And was co-incident that the hotel I booked is in the centre of those areas for my son's toys and my hubby's favourite LP (vinyl disk). Never know bout that earlier as booking hotel by luck (1st time visit). Hence, last year (2nd trip) we get bk the same hotel coz know the place a bit better.
If need to be school holiday and snow, go Hokkaido and try to be as late December as possible coz their snow park open when nearer to Xmas. Check out Japan ANA flight and stopover at Tokyo before fly to Hokkaido. ANA sometime have great deal and more worth than flying our local budget airline. I was surveying this earlier thinking to bring my kid to Hokkaido this year end. But recently UK Pound is attractive, hence we changed plan to go UK instead (without kid). To compensate the kid, tentatively named Gold Coast for his next visit in mid June next year. But he will be very sad coz had already save up $ for his Gundams.
But if your kid have not been to winter travel before, you may need to spare out some extra budget for their clothing. As my son already had that, so everytime we plan for vacation, try to be on winter as to make full use of his winter gear before he outgrown it.
Other than Japan, my kid have his annual trip to Phuket coz he love to swim. So not sure of any other suitable country.