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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Traveling with children is relocation, not vacation.

I the parent of three kids and have done multiple trips abroad to see DH’s family. Things got way easier when we only needed booster seats in the car instead of lugging car seats around. Also, we never brought a stroller…it was just too much…back carriers/front carriers snd shared duties on carrying. As for restaurants, you find something quick and inexpensive or grab something to go and eat in a park or back at the hotel—not glamorous but it takes the pressure off everyone (jet lagged parents and toddlers). As for naps, we just let children snooze in carriers for that week. Sure, we paid for it with some crankiness, but you make it work.

Again, it is relocation, not vacation.

If we hadn’t had a reason to go oversees, I would have stuck to day trips and been happy to do so and saved the big trips for when kids got older.[/quote]

We also just brought carriers— no strollers— and let the kids nap on the go. [/quote]

I think this is the hard part for those of us with good home sleepers. Its hard to trade a 2-3 hour nap in a crib for a 40 minute nap (which is all my kids would do on the go) in a carrier with an adult needing to hold you. Which is why we just stuck to rentals with seperate kid bedrooms until our kids got older. As a parent, it was much more relaxing to me to still get my long afternoon break and 7pm bedtime than to explore Europe at those ages. Its true we didn't take very exciting vacations for about 5 years there. [/quote]

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