ABOUT AI MOM TRAVEL
Last updated: May 12, 2026
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Hi, I'm Vanya π
I'm a working mom from Bulgaria. I live in Sofia with my husband and our two kids β a curious 4-year-old boy and his baby sister. We travel together as often as we can: weekend escapes to Bulgarian SPA towns, road trips through the mountains, family stays at hotels that welcome kids of every age.
I built AI Mom Travel because I want other working moms to stop feeling overwhelmed when planning a family vacation β and to realize that family travel is possible even without unlimited time or budget.
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How I got here
Our first family trip was in March 2022. Our son was just 4 months old. We drove to Bansko for two nights with another family β friends with kids the same age.
The hotel was small. No spa, no animation team, just a pool and the mountains outside the window. The weather was bitterly cold, and I'd spent weeks worrying about every detail: would our son sleep? Handle the temperature change? Would we even enjoy ourselves with a 4-month-old in tow?
He surprised us. Calm in the car. Calm at dinner. Calm in the strange hotel room. Two nights felt like a small miracle β and a glimpse of what family travel could be.
The AI moment came later β and it didn't happen during a family trip at all.
I was watching a lecture by an entrepreneur I follow, and she casually mentioned that she'd used ChatGPT to organize her entire US tour while traveling there for a presentation. Hotels, transportation, sightseeing β built in minutes between meetings.
That clicked.
If she could plan a multi-city US business trip with AI, I could plan family trips this way. Even spontaneous ones. The kind where you're already in Italy for work and realize you have a free afternoon β and instead of stressing over Google Maps and TripAdvisor reviews, you can ask ChatGPT to build a kid-friendly half-day in five minutes.
That was the moment I realized: AI doesn't replace a travel mom's intuition. It frees up the hours we don't have. And every working mom deserves to know this.
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What you'll find on this site
This isn't a glossy travel magazine. It's a working mom's notebook β built around three things:
π€ AI-Powered Travel Planning
Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can save you 5-10 hours of research per trip. I show you exactly how I use them β with prompts you can copy, examples you can adapt, and honest comparisons of which AI tools actually help moms (and which are overhyped).
Bulgarian Family Travel Insights
I live here. I know which SPA hotels welcome babies, which mountain villages have kids' playgrounds, which Black Sea resorts skip the chaos, and which historical sites kids actually enjoy. Most travel writers covering Bulgaria are tourists. I'm a local mom who travels with her family every chance she gets.
π Road Trip-First Approach
I focus on family travel by car β starting with Bulgaria, the country I know best, and slowly expanding to nearby destinations as the site grows. Road trips give us control: we pause when the kids need it, pack what we actually use, and reach hidden destinations that planes can't take you to.
That said, you'll also find lighter resources for family flights β packing checklists, plane survival kits, and AI prompts for last-minute itineraries when flying is the only option. Road trip-first doesn't mean road trip-only.
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What I won't do
A few things I promise to never do on this site:
- Recommend hotels or products I haven't researched carefully. If I haven't stayed there, I'll tell you it's a researched recommendation, not a personal one.
- Pretend family travel is always Instagram-perfect. It's not. Kids get tired. Plans change. Toddlers throw food in fancy restaurants. I write about reality, not fantasy.
- Write generic "Top 10" listicles that don't help anyone. Every guide here is built around a real problem working moms have.
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My promise to you
When you subscribe to AI Mom Travel, you're not getting daily promotional emails or affiliate-link spam. You're getting:
- One thoughtful email per week (or less) with new resources I've created
- Free downloads like AI travel prompts, packing checklists, and itinerary templates
- Honest answers when you reply β I read every message
That's it. No upsells. No pressure. Just real help from one mom to another.
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Affiliate Disclosure
Some links on this site are affiliate links. When you click them and make a purchase (like booking a hotel or buying a travel product), I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These commissions help me maintain the site and continue creating free resources.
I only recommend products and services I genuinely believe in. My credibility matters more than any single commission. Read the full [Affiliate Disclosure](https://www.aimomtravel.com/affiliate-disclosure) for details.
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Let's connect
- π Pinterest: [AI Mom Travel | Family Trip Planning](https://www.pinterest.com/aimomtravel)
- π§ Email: contact@aimomtravel.com
- π¬ Contact form: [aimomtravel.com/contact](https://www.aimomtravel.com/contact)
If you have a travel question, a destination recommendation request, or just want to say hi β I'd love to hear from you.
β Vanya