#TTOT Round-Up: Family Travel
- By Connie
- October 25, 2011
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Every Tuesday, it’s Travel Talk on Twitter! There are two scheduled sessions to join: 9:30am GMT and 9:30pm GMT. Follow the #TTOT hashtag on Twitter and join in on the fun!
Here’s the round-up of this week’s #TTOT on “Family Travel!”
Q1 via BackPackerSteve: Which destination would you suggest to travel with your family -why?
- AyKate: Yellowstone National Park – Kids would love watch Old Faithful & the others sprouting out
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engelasaf: Thailand. there are lots of activities for kids and their parents. great beaches and lots of sun all year long
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destinology: Dubai, it has everything for families including the fantastic Aquaventure at Atlantis, make sure you take plenty of sun cream!
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sudhamathew: Turkey – warm hospitable people and very friendly to kids. Found it to be safe for single women too
- SuuperG:
I can speak for what dazzled me as a child – nature and animals! African Safari, Amazon Jungle, Galapagos and Alaska - giuliaccia: Probably obvious but I’d say Disneyland. Easy peasy
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grapehops: NYC is fabulous with family of all ages!
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HostelBookers: It depends where you live, travelling too far with young children can be difficult so try and find somewhere nice, closer to home
Q2 via himalfootsteps: What kind of travel/destination would you never do with family?
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TravelsinT: Africa, way to rough on small children
- Journeywoman: I don’t like taking the kiddies into malarial or dengue fever zones. I’d be worrying all the time
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GDARCYRYAN: Nudist resorts are a big No No!
- eezeerhotel: India is not on my list with family… Too dangerous for kids specially if they catch the gastro!
- mygo2it: Spring Break
- TravelDesigned: I am not a fan of Las Vegas for kids but my pal flyingwithfish says his kids LOVE it
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jasonalvinjacob: Anything too crowded and dangerous.. I would defo not got to places with hostile forces
- marksmayo: The ‘Stans would be very hard to do w family in tow – Delhi Belly the whole time!
- RobertKCole: Burning Man
- katyabroad: A caravan in Wales. Being cooped up in a tiny space with family for days on end while it rains is hell on earth
Q3 via lucy_c_b: What is your best childhood family travel memory?
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sudhamathew: Pretending it was night when passing through tunnels on the annual train journey between Bombay and Kerala when we were lil kids
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banbarkawi: Getting stuck in Malaysia for a month because of the Gulf War back home. To a 7-year-old, that equals paradise. Or to a 26-yr-old
- Liligo_UK: A deer started to eat my sweater when I was a kid at SeaWorld’s petting zoo. That was pretty funny
- petebouch: 2 years spent with family cruising the canals of N. France, Belgium & Holland on a home built 60 ft catamaran
- journeytom: Disney was a great memory I first went at 21 though does that still class as a child?
rkerestes: Visiting the upstairs lounge on a transatlantic 747 with Dad. I miss the piano player- plinthpics: Our camper van trips down through France and Spain
- bespoketravels: Playing the license plate game on road trips
- earthxplorer: My first plane trip was amazing, pancakes with syrup ( I was 10) !
Q4 via SophieR: To what extent do you involve the children in the planning of a trip?
- hotelhekla: Great to have kids involved in travel planning. Brings the family together and teaches them essential life lessons
- RanchRider: I always get my son’s globe out – then we make a list of things we’d like to do – he loves to travel
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Jake_Ivo: Depending on the age, children should be considered but not consulted
- PLUSHOSTELS: Did that once. All we ate was chocolate and chips for dinner
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mapthegap: We were never really involved in the planning of a trip, but had a say once we got there
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StayAdventurous:
My parents involved me… I plan to do the same some day -
missbritt: We give them options of things to do in each city
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KirkCole: I dont have kids, but my parents would decide on the destination, and my sister and I could each pick one thing we wanted to do
- 1Dad1Kid: I try to involve him as much as possible. We do it as a team
Q5 via galavantingmama: What’s in your in-flight survival kit?
- nankichawla: My parents used to give my sis a sip of brandy to make her stop screaming on planes. It worked!
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lowcostholidays: Thinking up a collection of ‘Eye Spy’ answers pre-flight, Nintendo DS, Ipod, and Boiled sweets for take off and landing=a MUST!
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hjortur: Keep them occupied. Bring them something to eat – and make it something you’d like to eat yourself
- magellanpr: Sick Bag
- TravelingEditor: Nintendo DS – so I can toss it into a circle of brats and watch them fight to the death
- kymri: When I travel with my daughter, we play WWF back and forth, but I hate that she’s old enough now to want the window seat! Argh!
- BackPackerSteve: Chocolate! A problem solver for every age
And there you have it, “Family Travel”!
Next week’s #TTOT topic is: “Customs from Around the World.” Submit your questions HERE! And don’t forget to follow the #TTOT every Tuesday at 9:30am and 9:30pm GMT to chat about all things travel!
As always, a HUGE travel community thank you to our #TTOT hosts and organizers: traveldudes, roniweiss, toddwassel, traveldesigned, insidetravellab, WildJunket, tbloggersunite and mobilelawyer!
Have YOU got anything to add to the Family Travel discussion?
© Connie Hum 2011
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