Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine June 2003 issue eleven budget-priced, vacation adventures Families! Go back to nature on your next vacation-and you’ll save big You do it countless ways. Maybe you play Swiss Family Robinson in a tent in the treetops or take sea-loving youngsters snorkeling amid schools of tropical fish. Whatever the goal, you can - with proper planning and advice - keep expenditures for an authentic, out-of-doors vacation to a perfectly modest level. Here is 1 of 11 budget-priced adventures that take your family back to nature. MAHO BAY CAMPS on the exquisite U.S. Virgin Island of St. John has begun offering kid’s arts-and-crafts classes, taught by visiting artists, which stress recycling and reusing materials. The kids can make birdhouses, musical instruments, or mosaics from recycled materials. You all stay in big, rectangular, canvas-sided platform tents, hidden amid trees along a hillside overlooking the sea. Each tented cabin comes equipped with lights, fans, and its own deck for watching the sunset. The seaside camp is surrounded by the Virgin Islands National Park and offers many watersports as well as places to snorkel. (The entire island of St. John is ringed by pristine beaches.) And units at Maho Bay are connected by wooden walkways the kids will love. Rates start at $75 for a canvas “bungalow” housing two adults and two children, with kids under 16 staying free. by Eileen Ogintz

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