My 10-year-old twins have the most luxurious travel life ever. They're in for a rude awakening when they grow up.

I didn't grow up traveling luxuriously but my job has allowed me to take my family on fancy trips . My twins have mostly stayed in high-end accommodations and have been to many luxurious places. When I was a kid, family vacations meant road trips to the beach or a national park in our station wagon.

I didn't start stamping up my passport in earnest until I was in my early 30s. I didn't know anything about luxury travel until even later when my career started to take the form of freelance travel writing . That's when I started to get opportunities to trot the globe, staying in the finest hotels with access to rarefied experiences.

This happened to be around the time my twins were born — so, unlike their parents, they've known nothing but over-the-top luxury travel their whole lives. And they have no real context against which to compare their experiences. We live modestly, but my kids are used to experiencing the finer things in life when we travel Although we live in a modest two-bedroom home that's pushing a century old and leaks when it rains, our family's typical travel accommodations are pretty tricked out.

Most resorts we visit set us up in suites with amenities like private pools, personalized chocolates, and massive soaking tubs in multiple marble bathrooms. My kids spent the summer they turned 10 between trips to the soaring five-star Shangri-La Tokyo and the sprawling new Four Seasons Cabo del Sol on the Cabo San Lucas coast. Our suite at the Four Seasons sprawled .