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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i.e, going down to the USVI.

if so, and if it is not a "week off", would it be cool to ask her to watch the kids a few nights out of the week so we could go to dinner, etc?

the timeshare has 2 bedrooms, so I guess we have the kids with us in a bedroom and she can have her own.  which is ok.

I want the au pair to feel like part of the family and to experience as much culture as possible.  but I want to know what is the norm.[/quote]

If it's not her week off, then it's completely fine to arrange the 45 hours/week there the same as you would at home, though of course nice to give more free time to the AP than usual so she can enjoy the exotic location on her own a bit (or with you all, but not working).  And since it's your vacation, presumably you aren't working, so you won't need the AP for all 45 hours anyway.  So dinners out seem exactly the reason you'd pay to have your AP come on the trip with you - you have her there for some babysitting, and she gets to experience a fun new location.

We have taken our AP to the beach with us and had her work some hours so that we could either work or go out a few nights, or just take a walk on the beach by ourselves here and there.  It was not her vacation week, but we gave her a lot more time off than usual to explore.  We also stuffed into one bedroom of the beach rental and gave her the other room.[/quote]

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