The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children, 1st Edition

by Fawzia Rasheed de Francisco

From pre-trip planning to pre-empting and dealing with challenges when away, The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children is the ultimate comprehensive guide to hassle-free family travel. With the low-down on everything from planning your itinerary and accommodation to what to bring and how to pack it, the guide is packed with tips on painless travel by plane, car, bus or train, as well how to deal with delays, queues and travel sickness. Insiders’ tips from destinations all around the globe ensure you’ll know what to expect when you arrive. You’ll find thoroughly researched and accessible advice on coping with the challenges once you’re there, from eating out with toddlers to getting enough sleep. Ideal for busy parents, the guide comes complete with listings of resources, websites and further reading, plus handy checklists, first-hand stories and advice from travel industry experts and parents who’ve been there and done it.

Genres: Travel, Parenting

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 2008

Reviews

[Zoe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way too general and broad. Would have liked it more if I was planning an international trip, but even in that case I think it was too general to be truly helpful.

[Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightfully British. In some ways, the completeness of this makes you roll your eyes, thinking that some things are obvious. But it does make sure you see all the aspects of traveling with kids- for instance, how prone they are to motion sickness on road trips, and to have an action plan to make sure all kids and luggage get on and off the train at the proper stop. Much better as a reference guide, I don't think it was intended to be read from front to back. But it was inspiring, it made me dream of taking my baby around the world.

[Pam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. Mostly common sense and advice on a lot of things that as a parent you do as part of 'normal' life anyway (as opposed to when traveling). A couple of nice tips but not worth buying a book for - it's very general information and all of the stuff I found useful could be covered in a few bullet points online. Some nice anecdotal stories though - it *is* possible - hurrah! ! :)

[Angelyn Vaughan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of this book either didn't apply to the specifics of my trip or were common-sense parenting. But every time I started to give up on it I came across a really helpful idea I never would have thought of.
Now I need to do lots of research to delve further into the pertinent topics the book brought up. I'm definitely glad I read it though.

[Kerry Go · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found a lot of useful information. Yes, it covers a lot of situations, so I won't be in all of them, e.g., I'm unlikely to travel to a place that needs a mosquito net, but even those make me aware of the possibilities.

[Liliana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Plain and simple language, love the to-do lists and the anecdotes, "travellers' tales". As a new mom I feel now more prepared to travel with my new baby.

[Ginger · Rating 2 out of 5]

It *is* possible.