Travelling with Children - Tips & Advice Reviews

I recently took a 6 hour car ride with 2 children under the age of 5 and believe me it is no picnic. However, I got a few travelling tips from friends and family before we went that really saved me during this car ride, I really hope that they help others: 1) Firstly, go with the flow. Planning is good but where kids are concerned ...

Ok this review is about a matter of the heart. My kids and i was involved in a car crash tuesday 15th of june, due to some nutter who so fit to pull out out straight in front of me. Luckily me my children and i are fine. Story... My husband phoned to say he ran out of petrol and that i had to pick my children ...

From experience of many family trip i would like to offer My tips for traveling with children on short or long trips by any type of transport: 1. Are we there yet? Is a typical thing children will say, my tip is use a alarm clock and put the time it will take to get to the destination and then count down, don't forget to add an extra ...

For me there are a few top tips to travelling with children. The first is to make sure that they know what to expect. We have all heard the emortal phrase "Are we there yet?" asked from the back seat. I always find if my children understand exactly what is going to happen next and how long it will take then they are better ...

This review is going to be about travelling in the UK with small children, as I'm afraid finances haven't yet allowed us to travel abroad with my toddler, but I hope some of the things which we have learnt will be useful... **choice of destination** Now, this may sound a bit obvious, but it needs including because it ...

As the father of 2 young children I thought it would be useful to write about the joys (read that with tongue in cheek)! Of travelling with children. As a family we travel a great deal both on business when my wife and children come along for the ride, and on holiday. Planning is really important with children in tow, to avoid ...

Tips for travelling with children I do not travel far with children now. The occasional short journey with disabled children not far enough for them to get unsettled. I can remember travelling with Sleepydormouse when she was young and having her friends with us on a few long journeys. Car journeys I would ...

No matter how much people try and put you off travelling with babies, don't listen...if I had I couldn't comment now. We took our 4 month old son on his first trip abroad to Spain, we decided on a short flight from our local airport to make life easier and to test the water!! Shorter journeys make it easier to plan for ...

There are few things parents dread more than a long car trip with children. The whining, the crying, the fighting, the bathroom breaks, the spilled food and drinks, the grumpy kids. And that's before you even get out of the drive way. However, people can survive long trips with kids. I won't go so far as to say that you can enjoy ...

Last summer we organised the holiday of a lifetime to the Rocky Mountains. I was dreading it! Not the holiday, but the prospect of motoring across Colorado with three squabbling kids. We aimed to keep driving at a minimum, but in the open spaces of the West a six hour run is peanuts! What's a parent to do when her oldest son and ...

Gone are the simply days when you used grab a few things, and your partner would whisk you away for a romantic weekend. Now your car resembles a moving house as a weekend to see the grandparent’s means packing the entire contents to keep an army happy. After a quick head count and a summons that everyone should use the toilet you ...

We have an outside pool, so naturally sunscreens are particularly important to us. Particularly as we have an 8 year old daughter. In the past we have been using E45 sun screen with great success. By the end of the season our daughter's skin is slightly tanned. This year we couldn't get E45 and bought the Cancer Research ...

Being a really badly travel sick kid myself I would love to offer the following advice to the poor suffering parent out there who have to wipe the sick up off the car interior. With this is mind I also don't think I will be having kids for at least another 30 years. First of all, I must stress that allowing children to read in ...

The car is packed, everyone is strapped in and we are off on holiday. A three-hour journey ahead of us. Down the road turn the corner and work our way out of our neighbour hood. Onto the fast roads and then a little voice pipes out "Are we nearly there yet?" This is going to be a long journey! So what can we do to make it less ...

Keeping the children occupied on long journeys is not the easiest task to achieve, but a small amount of forward planning can make all the difference. Here are some of the activities that I quite regularly use, in order to keep the little devils quiet in the back. I must explain that my children are aged 5 and 8 years, and the activities that I ...

Travelling with kids can be very stressful but is often necessary. The first rule is to be prepared. If you are going on a long journey let them know well before so they can be ready. If any of them suffer from travel sickness make sure they have taken a tablet (if they use them) at the right time. Also keep a flannel, flask of ...

We go travelling quite a lot and try to avoid using the car if possible but when in the car i always sit in the back with my little one and find that the ideal way to keep her happy is to take lots of colouring books and pens,but other things we do are to play what she calls the LUBBY LUBBY song which is the one that goes Do you really like it is ...

We’ve all done it at some time haven’t we? Those of us with children of course. Sometimes we endure ‘journeys from hell’ where we have to contend with whinging, vomit, tantrums, boredom and the like. But, really it doesn’t have to be this way. With a little foresight and planning, it is possible to have reasonably ...

Travelling with children, it’s a bit like using a 9-inch carving knife as a toothpick, very insane and extremely stressful, not to mention the slight danger involved. So how can it be made easier? Well there are a variety of ways with the most effective being leaving the kids behind or tying them up and gagging their mouths. There are ...

At this time of the year many families are setting off for France, either for holidays with companies like Eurocamp or are going to various types of holiday homes scattered across France. All of these types of trips involve long journeys often of up to 24 hrs or more so how to keep the kids amused? First of all when it comes to ...