Travelling with Kids

Advice

• Travelling with Children
  Comprehensive tips and information on child-friendly travel ranging from the school-run to long-haul flights.
• Baby Flying
  Free information resource for flying families world-wide; created by Brits and published in New Zealand. It is not affiliated with any airline or travel organisation.
• Babygoes2
  Long established site with info on holidays with babies and younger children.
• Take the Family
  Travel advice from childcare to jabs and how to choose your perfect holiday.
• TravelWithYourKids.com
  Written by parents, for parentswith tips whether you're travelling near or far.
• Cheapflights.co.uk
  Succinct advice on holidaying with children.

UK Travel Information

• Traveline
  Impartial information on planning your journey, by bus, coach or train... or any combination of the three.
• BBC Travel News
  Road Rail and Ferry information.
• AA
  Traffic Information.
• National Rail Enquries
  Train times and engineering information.
• Buy Ferry Tickets
  Find the cheapest ferry tickets from the UK

Travel & Holiday Safety

• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  Know Before You Go is an ongoing travel safety campaign encouraging British nationals to be better prepared for their overseas trips and avoid common travelling traumas, risks and dangers.
• Federal Aviation Authority
  Safety advice on flying with children.
• Good Beach Guide
  By the Marine Conservation Society just send an SAE.
• Family Safe Zones
  A secure online account to store important family information from medical information to passport details. Also available are child's safety wristbands and sun protection clothing.
• Born 2 Be Cool
  Swimwear, wetsuits, rash vests, lifejackets, sun protection clothing and beach shoes for the summer and ski jackets, pants, hats, gloves, fleeces plus base layer thermals and goggles for sking.

Family Friendly Holidays

• Airtours
  Holidays in the sun, cruises, ski-ing with free child and infant places.
• Balkan Holidays
  Balkan Holidays is an independent specialist tour operator with 42 years of experience in planning and arranging memorable summer, beach, lakes and mountain and ski holidays in Bulgaria.
• Blue Chip Vacations
  4 and 5 star holiday accommodation in Cornwall and Devon. With a growing portfolio of over 260 properties, including luxury apartments, traditional town houses and traditional holiday cottages.
• Butlins
  Three popular UK seaside locations at Bognor, Minehead and Skegness.
• Monarch Holidays
  Independent, family-orientated holiday company taking over half a million people to over 35 destinations around the world each year.
• Direct Holidays
  Direct Holidays only sell their own holidays direct. By cutting out the travel agent and their costs they are able to offer high quality holidays at up to 15% less than high street or online travel agents' prices. They offer holidays to Europe and worldwide.
• Disneyland Paris
  Holiday with Mickey, Tinkerbell, Buzz Lightyear and all your Disney favourites
• DFDS Seaways
  Book ferry tickets or take a short cruise to Norway, Denmark or Holland.
• Eurocamp
  Eurocamp offers self-catering self-drive, fly/drive or accommodation only holidays to 14 countries with a choice of over 150 holiday parcs. Customers can choose to travel by car and ferry, with their car on motorail, or to fly to their destination and hire a car or take airport transfers. Free children's and toddler clubs are provided with trained couriers and tailored activities for 4+ year olds, 7+ year olds and 10+ year olds.
• Expedia.co.uk
  Offer both published and discounted fares on over 450 airlines, more than 80,000 accommodation properties world-wide and 4 million rooms, car hire and a choice of pre-package holidays. Best know for their 'build-your-own' holiday packages where you choose your flight, and hotel.
• Haven Holidays
  35 Parks throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The Parks offer pool complexes and sports areas, to children's clubs and entertainment with a wide choice of family holiday accommodation including luxury holiday homes, chalets, lodges and apartments.
• Helpful Holidays
  Up-market holiday homes in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset.
• Hoseasons
  Over 12,000 places to stay self-catering throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe. From secluded lodges with hot tubs to family holiday parks and from thatched cottages to boating holidays and luxury villas.
• James Villas
  Hand-picked villas in twenty nine of the most popular holiday destinations around the Mediterranean, the Canaries and Florida. They will also organise your flights, car hire, travel insurance, airport hotels and parking, a welcome pack on arrival, cots and high chairs.
• KeyCamp Holidays
  Range of free clubs for toddlers, children and teenagers on campsites in France, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Holland.
• Mark Warner
  Family Resorts offering award-winning childcare and a selection of Kids clubs to suit all ages.
• Opodo
  A Pan-European travel service offering access to over 500 airlines, 65,000 hotel properties and more than 7,000 car rental locations worldwide as well as travel insurance.
• P & O Ferries
  Book ferries online from Dover, Portsmouth or Hull to Calais, Zeebrugge, Bilbao and Rotterdam.
• Park Resorts
  Parks in Britain's favourite holiday hotspots from Scotland to the Isle of Wight, and Wales to East Anglia.
• Pontins
  Eight holiday parks in the UK, with kids clubs, entertainment and of course the famours bluecoats.
• Ramada Jarvis
  Hotels for all types of breaks - weekends away in a country house, leisure breaks or Family Funtime breaks - great ideas for days out at a discounted entry price to many attractions.
• Superbreak
  Leisure hotel breaks at over 4,000 hotels across the UK, Europe and beyond. You can also book Rail tickets (many at special rates), attraction tickets, Tours and excursions and Theatre tickets.
• The Adventure Company
  Family Adventures for adventurous parents with kids from one to sixteen years of age. Special tours for school holidays a speciality.

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Travel Sickness Solutions
Travel sickness occurs when small repetitive movements such as those experienced in a car, boat or aeroplane mean that the brain is sent different messages – your body is sitting still but your eyes tell you that you are moving. Children are more prone to travel sickness than adults, and many children grow out of it.