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[quote=Anonymous]I have done a lot of traveling with my parents in their 70s and 80s.  My kids loved traveling with their grandparents. Here is what works:
1) travel with snacks.  My dad wears a Fanny pack with chocolate bars and protein bars.  My kids love that.
2) regular meal breaks.  My dad’s meal demand matched my growing kods’ so was not an extra imposition.
3) don’t plan that they will join for all things.  My parents joined us for maybe half the stuff we did.  Don’t move hotels too much so they always have a space to hang out.
4) look for things that have a high/low variant.  Boat trips were great because they’d sit on the boat and we’d jump off and swim or snorkel.  We did another Where we kayaked and they just did a tour boat with our youngest who could not kayak. 
5) washer/dryer is helpful because old people have accidents. Also helpful for sweaty dirty kids.  
6) double and triple check they have all medications and necessary equipment with them before you leave.  I’ve had to buy insulin and walking canes in foreign countries when they were forgotten at home.  
My parents eat better than my kids so that was never an issue—they have some dietary restrictions but we’re always able to find things they’d eat.  
Finally watch for things like falls.  We did have some calls on a couple of vacations.  One was avoidable in that my mom was wearing really dumb shoes and I should have caught that.  The other was the start of a serious medical problem we didn’t know about.  Buy the travel insurance in case you need it.  Bring extra medicine and know where the pharmacy is.  
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