Recently our Travel Guru & Sup Expert travelled to Indonesia to set up our Bali office for the winter and besides getting many amazing photos we were told their journey was exhausting, in short, travelling with kids can be tough.
So to prevent all our clients from a 48 hour sleepless journey, The True Blue Team brainstormed some easy helpful traveling tips for when you take your kiddies along:
- Prepare for the worst & be organised.
Not to be negative but anything could happen. Flights get delayed. Kids pee their pants. So best to prevent the stress by being prepared -Have extra outfits easily accessible. Be sure you have plenty for kids to do in case of flight delays & make extra copies of paperwork.
- Take your time & enjoy the ride
The greatest thing you can take – whether it is at the airport, sightseeing or getting from A to B – is extra time. Children love to explore and don’t care for the time pressure of traveling, so you’re more likely to retain your cool if you factor the faffing, gawping, stalling, toilet stops and tantrums into your time frame
- Don’t forget the medicine & WIPES!
Whether or not it is jet lag, eating different or over exhaustion – children seem to get ill on holiday, soften the blow of less sleep, broken nights, frayed temperaments and fevers by packing an easy-to-swallow medicine, Calpol for one and most importantly the wet wipes!
- Games, Games, Games!
This is a MUST and it is not just for the flight but whenever you need to keep them entertained – Download some kids’ games or kid-friendly apps to your smartphone or tablet. Have family games in mind to keep the long car drives at bay or the long ques, basically always keep something that is attainable to keep them happy.
You could give them a camera, it encourages them to observe their surroundings and focus on what interests them (this doesn’t mean the newest Canon but a more robust one). Besides you might be surprised at the results from their knee-high view.
- Encourage them to keep a travel journal
Get your kids drawing and listing things they’ve seen and interesting foods they’ve tried.
Collecting postcards from places you visit and asking them to write themselves a message on the back means they can reach adulthood with a library of memories.
