Family Visit

The Loved Ones Challenge (also known as Family Reward) refers to a Reward Challenge where the contestants compete to earn the reward of spending the day with their loved ones or having the privilege to watch or chat with their loved ones through a video tape or the internet respectively.

History
The challenge first appeared in, where the contestants' loved ones sent in video tapes, and the contestants have to compete against each other to win the video tape as reward. In a later episode contestants competed to have their loved ones stay overnight with them at camp. Since then, with the exception of, , and , the challenge has made its appearance on every season, with loved ones connecting with the contestants through a web chat, homemade video tapes, or even physically appearing on location. The challenge usually appears when there are only 6 contestants left in the game.

Seasons Without a Loved Ones Challenge
The challenge did not make an appearance on because at that time, a coup d'état was initiated by Fiji's military leader, Frank Bainimarama, preventing the families of the cast members from coming to Fiji to participate in the challenge.

The challenge did not appear in, though the reason for its omission is unknown.

didn't have a loved ones challenge, due to the theme of the season.

Trivia

 * Parvati Shallow is the only person to compete in this challenge three times. She has won the challenge once and has partaken in the reward twice.
 * Survivor: Caramoan is the first season to feature two loved ones coming to island instead of one.
 * Caramoan is the first time in which Jeff Probst cried during a loved ones challenge.
 * Survivor: Redemption Island had the most players in the game during a loved ones visit/challenge, with 10.
 * Laura Boneham and Katie Collins are the first "loved ones" to compete in a future season after appearing as a loved one in an earlier season.
 * There have been some instances, where the contestants didn't know the challenge (or Auction) was the Loved Ones Challenge. Some of those instances include Survivor: Palau, Survivor: Guatemala, and Survivor: Tocantins.
 * contestant Randy Bailey had no loved one to visit him. Luckily for production, he was eliminated before the loved ones challenge.