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[quote=Anonymous]If the nanny shares a room with a child, even a teen, she's working every hour that she's in the room with the child, and that gets expensive.

Does your contract guarantee hours?  If so, you might as well use the normal hours, because you're going to pay for them anyway, but you could elect to do 4-5 hour days.  Talk to your nanny if you want to change the way the hours are scheduled through the week versus while at home.  Most nannies who travel with their NF will start setting up a schedule for working and free hours asap and researching the local events, especially things to do with the kids, so the sooner you figure out which hours you want her to work, the better it will be.

If I'm working while traveling, I don't cover my own food.  My reasoning is that I wouldn't be going if I wasn't working, and I can't get food at the same costs that I would when I am home.  Other nannies differ on this, but all of us agree that minimum cost for food is anything consumed or ordered during working hours.

If you have the nanny work at all, she doesn't pay for travel or housing costs.

Overall, most families don't realize how expensive it is to bring along the nanny.  It's cheaper to give the nanny the week off and arrange a babysitter while you are on vacation, but you don't know the babysitter, and neither do the kids.

I wish you luck, OP, and I hope everyone has fun![/quote]

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