Travel With Kids

Travel With Kids
This index holds all of our posts relating to travel with kids, including tips for travel with kids, popular destinations for family travel and experiences of travel with kids. However, our site is not purely a travel with kids site, we travel all ways and often take on very challenging destinations, the sort of places most families will never go. You can find those in our travel destinations and places tab, look in the top menu.

The blog posts below and on subsequent pages relate directly to travel and vacations with kids, from babies to teens and tweens. We hope you find what you’re looking for.
Some of our key “with kids” country and city guides are in the list below. (But there are loads more!)

What’s The Best Age To Travel With Kids?

What’s the best age to travel with kids or take your kids on a family gap year? How old should ...
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Christmas While Travelling

We’ve had 5 Christmases on the road in the last almost 6 years of full-time family travel. Another one is ...
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Southeast Asia With Kids

We posted already about our experiences of travelling around Southeast Asia with kids (for 5 years!) now let’s have a ...
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Asia With Kids

First of all, don’t panic. You can visit Asia with kids. In fact, travel to Asia with kids is pretty ...
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How to Use Less Plastic When You Travel

One of the things that really bugs me about travelling, which has been particularly noticeable in South East Asia and ...
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Favourite Hotels, Hostels and Guest Houses in Southeast Asia

It’s time for us to write a post on our favourite and recommended hotels, hostels, and guest houses in Southeast ...
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Hoi An With Kids

Hoi An is a magical little town on the coast in central Vietnam and is a lovely destination with kids ...
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Telunas Resort Indonesia – Near Singapore

We spent Christmas in Singapore. Of those 2 weeks the highlight was our 3 days staying at Telunas Resort on ...
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One Year Around The World (Year 4 of World Travel)

One year of round the world travel. What we did and where we went in our 4th year of travel ...
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A Nomadic Family Lifestyle

We left home over 5 years ago to travel the world and we never wanted to go back. Becoming a ...
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Saigon With Kids

We’re here in Vietnam with kids, two of them, plus two parents. Our first three days in Saigon (the wider ...
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How do Families Afford to Travel the World?

This is the question that comes up constantly. How do we afford it? How do all the other families afford ...
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Family Summer Travel Accessories You Need Now!

Summer holidays, summer vacations, whatever you call them, it’s that time of year! For many families it’s their annual chance ...
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9 Summer Holiday Tips for Parents, from a Travelling Family

It’s almost summer holiday time again and some parents will be getting stressed out. Maybe it’s your first time taking ...
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Sigiriya With Kids

We put off climbing Sigiriya, lion rock, with kids until they were 11 and 9. Why? Because we’d climbed Sigiriya ...
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5 Best Portable Battery Packs for Travel 2024

With more and more travel essential gadgets requiring charging, it’s little wonder that people are turning to portable battery packs ...
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Places to Visit in Penang with Family

There is an incredible selection of things to do in Penang with kids along with family-friendly resort hotels, good food, ...
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Visiting Antarctica With Kids

Antarctica with kids. Can you take kids to Antarctica? Is a family trip to Antarctica a good idea? We talk ...
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Best Things About Travelling the World as a Family

A lady in our Living Differently group was telling me yesterday how a photo I shared had stuck in her ...
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Travel Insurance for Extended or Open Ended Travel

World Nomads is the insurance company we have used for extended, open-ended, long-term and adventure travel. Many travel insurance companies ...
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50 Journeys Round the Sun.

It’s traditional to do a year-end wrap post, so here goes with 2016. This year was a big one for ...
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Novotel Phuket Karon Beach

Our review of the Novotel Phuket Karon Beach Resort and Spa in Phuket Thailand. This is one of the best ...
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Family Vacation at Novotel Phuket Surin Beach Resort

Just behind the clear blue Andaman Sea, the sand, the palm trees and the scrubby foreshore sits Novotel Phuket Surin Beach ...
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Christmas Gifts For Kids and Families Who Travel

If you are keen world travellers or you know a travelling family, you’ll like our ideas for Christmas travel gifts ...
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What is Enough Socialisation? – World & Homeschooling Socialisation

I received an e-mail from a reader recently. He and his wife were thinking of taking their child on a ...
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Accommodation For Travellers: Finding It

Finding accommodation as you travel (budget to free being hardest) is a huge topic and one that is mentioned all ...
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Child Safety Wrist Straps, Harnesses, Wristbands and Tattoos

Readers and consult clients are forever asking me how to make sure kids are safe on the road. I don’t ...
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Living Differently

This post, and entire “Living Differently” series, was written when I finally woke up to what we’d achieved, and realised ...
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3 Years of Travel. Thoughts

Shhhh! They’re all asleep. Wiped out like a small pride of lions after a big day on the savannah.  All ...
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Family House Sitting. Yes or No?

I’m going to say what I really feel (surprised, right?) and that is, long-term family house sitting as part of ...
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Why Travel With Kids

Why do we do this crazy thing, why travel with kids? More importantly, why we think you should travel with ...
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Best Asian Beaches to Explore With The Family

Asia is full of brilliant, sun-drenched beaches that all the family can enjoy. If you’re committed travel-lovers looking for a ...
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Strewing The World. Strewing, Homeschooling and Worldschooling

Strewing. What is strewing? Strewing is a common word in homeschooling or unschooling, what does strewing look like in worldschooling? ...
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When Kids Don’t Want to Travel

“You’ll have to drag me back to India kicking and screaming.” Great. That’s what my elder son, light of my life, ...
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Prague With Kids

A special Prague with kids tour was high on our wish list as first time visitors to the Czech Republic, and, ...
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Family Biking Tips, Trips and Holidays

By travelling, we see the world and to learn about it while enjoying family time and making memories. You all ...
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2 Years of Travel, Where Have We Been and What Now?

It’s been two years of travel now. Two years of us, the boys and our backpacks. Two years of adventure, ...
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Do Kids Enjoy Travel? Reasons They Do

I’ve been asked more than once if my kids enjoy travel. Some readers are concerned that children could be sad ...
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How to Haggle in Bangkok.

Everyone knows you need to haggle over prices in Thailand and most other parts of Asia. Some are good at ...
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A Challenging Week in Siem Reap Cambodia

Our week in Siem Reap, Cambodia had its ups and downs. A family travel rollercoaster, dazzling highs and anxious, dark ...
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Tate Modern With Kids (London)

Is it worth visiting the Tate Modern with kids? We find out. Having an enjoyable and worthwhile visit to a ...
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What Will My Boys Remember?

You may think we’ve not been to many places in 2014, after all, we’ve been exploring London in minute detail ...
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