I need your help with a little travel dilemma. I have got a $250 Marriott gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket book! The problem? I tend to be a tad (ahem, a ton!) indecisive. That’s where you come in. I’ve narrowed it down to three choices…please weigh-in and choose where my family should go on our weekend getaway! For helping me out, you could win two fabulous travel games from ThinkFun. We’ll go wherever you tell us to go!
At first I was skeptical about the usefulness of the My Handy Hold, an alternative to a safety harness that children hold onto instead of being buckled into. I thought, if they can let go of it, what’s the point? But, I figured what they heck, and I accepted a free My Handy Hold from the manufacturer to see if it might be something worthwhile for traveling parents.
It looks like a lot of you wanted to win the JoggerMom Summer Travel Prize Pack! With nearly $250 in travel gear for babies and toddlers from Phil & Teds, who wouldn’t want to win?!
Your baby or toddler can travel with ease and style this summer with a Traveller and a Wriggle Wrapper, both made by Phil & Teds. JoggerMom offers these products as well as many others that make travel easier for parents. Read on to find out how to win this pair of prizes, worth a total of nearly $250!
Thank you to everyone who entered the JetSetBabies contest on TravelMamas.com! Two lucky parents will receive $50 to spend at JetSetBabies, a site that delivers baby and toddler supplies (like diapers, formula, and baby food) and other goodies (such as bath and sand toys) to hotels and homes around the world.
Marriott is going above and beyond to make sure its youngest guests are welcomed, comfortable, and safe at more than 2,500 Marriott brand hotels with its new Tots Travel Too program.
Want to make traveling with a baby or toddler easier? Then you need to know about JetSetBabies! Enter to win one of two $50 JetSetBabies gift certificates.
It’s always exciting when I get feedback about how this site helps traveling families! Over the past couple of months, a few websites have written about TravelMamas.com and I wanted to share their stories and tell you about the rockin’ products and services these sites offer to traveling parents.
I hope you’ll swing by BreezyMama.com to check out my round-up of travel tips! I was asked to share my Top 10 Travel Tips for Parents by BreezyMama.com. While you’re there, be sure to enter to win a My Busy Kit to keep your wee ones content while traveling or enter to win a super-stylish Petunia Pickle Bottom diaper bag.
Usually my Disney-loving family flies to sunny Florida every other year to visit Mickey Mouse. This summer, however, I will be driving with my wife and two teenagers from central New Jersey to Orlando. My 17-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter merely tolerate each other’s company, at best. Right about now I can hear some of you saying, “Are you crazy?” Here’s how we plan to stay sane along the way.
Here are ten reasons to consider renting gear when traveling with your baby or toddler…
All you need to make traveling with kids something to look forward to is some cool travel gear, according to Andrea Fellman, author of the blogs SavvySassyMoms.com and HaveKidsStillTravel.com. From ride-on luggage to the coolest snack containers, Andrea’s got some great ideas to make travel easier for your family.
Do you have a great tip for traveling with kids? Share it and you could win $20 from KidsTravelHappy.com. Hopefully you’ll send me some great ideas to share with other Travel Mamas and Travel Daddies for future Quick Tips posts!
Today is the first day of the Travel Mamas Prize a Day Anniversary Giveaway! Tell me what you like best about this site for a chance to win gift certificates for UNplugged toys, games, books, activities, and unique gear for real and imaginary journeys from KidsTravelHappy.com. Not sure which feature you should vote for? Check out this list of the ten most visited Travel Mamas pages for ideas!
If you have a lot to pack, you can avoid lugging it all to the airport and paying checked baggage fees by shipping your luggage instead. Luggage Free Economy allows you to ship luggage or boxes at a flat rate of $50 per piece.
Every now and then I receive emails or comments from readers with helpful travel tips, interesting questions, or some thoughts about how TravelMamas.com helped them travel better with kids. I thought I’d compile a few of them to share with you in hopes it will help your family travels a bit!
Before I had children, packing was easy. But now that I’m a mom, packing has taken on a whole new and scary dimension. There’s so much to remember, lug, and keep track of! Here are a few parental packing dilemmas I’ve encountered and their solutions.
Learn about the hazards of flying with a lap child in this interview with Louise Stoll, a grandmother and inventor CARES, the only compact child safety restraint approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use on airplanes.
Most families I know have full schedules, so jam-packed with work, school, and extracurricular activities that they barely have time for family dinners anymore. So why not look at your flight as a way to spend some quality family time? Here are a few ways to make your flight an experience your kids will remember…and yes, enjoy!
Any journey can be do-able, and even enjoyable, with the right stuff (and the right attitude)! Tracyn Thayer is a mom whose search for the best travel toys led her to found Kids Travel Happy, a site that specializes in toys and games for use on the go. Here’s a list of the best travel toys and diversions based on Tracyn’s advice as well as my own experience and that of other Travel Mamas.
“Eat while you drive. Stop to play.” I recently tested this tidbit of road trip advice from a friend, while trying to avoid the lure of my SUV’s built-in DVD screen.
After a failed, messy daytrip to Legoland I remembered the most important item no road trip should be taken without…a bucket!
