Tips for Travelling with Children

You don’t want to stop travelling now you have children, and you still want a good accommodation with good facilities and preferably also a bit of time for yourself to relax. I’d like to share a few tips with you, so you can enjoy a wonderful holiday with the kids but without stress.

1- Relax. Go with the flow and do not take too much stuff with you. Build in rest days and be realistic in what you want to see and do.

2- You can learn a lot from travelling, and so can a child of 5. Prepare your children for the journey. Read a book, watch a video about the destination and try some local specialties. Find the land or place in the atlas. Look at things together that they can do there.

3- Have children keep a travel diary, take pictures or have them draw what they have seen and done.

4- Make a plan B- make sure that you can also do things when the weather is not in your favour (it happens sometimes unfortunately – no matter where you go).

5- Try to check in online beforehand so that you already know that you are together – which I can do for you to ensure this.

6- If entertainment is important, check whether the entertainment is suitable for the age of your kids and whether they are open if you travel outside the school holidays.

7- For younger children take a buggy with you, even though your child can walk, sometimes they can also sleep in, rest or if it is later in the evening, lie down.

8- Check the hand baggage rules before departure, pay attention to taking liquids with you. You can’t just take anything through with you. Baby food is allowed, hot water they have on board to make your bottle. Young children will not be allowed to take through filled drink bottles, so empty them out, and re fill them airside.

9- If your child is still drinking from a bottle, give it while ascending and landing. This helps to keep the pressure off their ears.

10- Take something to play in the plane, colouring book or games/music/tablets, so that they can keep themselves occupied on a long flight. Once the initial excitement of take off is over, it’s not long before boredom sets in once they realise they can’t get up and walk around freely.