FYI: Travel with Your Baby: Experts Share Their Secrets for Trips with Your under-4-Year-Old

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Fodor's globe-trotting parents show you how you can take your kids just about anywhere. Get great advice on: zeroing in on the best-bet vacations for newborns, toddlers, and preschoolers; traveling smart to the beach, the city, and the countryside, here and abroad; tried-and-true strategies for getting the best deals wherever you go; finding the most family-friendly hotels; packing; childproofing your hotel room; eating smart and other secrets of whine-free vacationing. Plus real-life stories from travelers like you; questions and answers; checklists, do's and don?ts; web sites, addresses, and phone numbers. So if you think your traveling days are over, think again!




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Fodor's globe-trotting parents show you how you can take your kids just about anywhere. Get great advice on: zeroing in on the best-bet vacations for newborns, toddlers, and preschoolers; traveling smart to the beach, the city, and the countryside, here and abroad; tried-and-true strategies for getting the best deals wherever you go; finding the most family-friendly hotels; packing; childproofing your hotel room; eating smart and other secrets of whine-free vacationing. Plus real-life stories from travelers like you; questions and answers; checklists, do's and don?ts; web sites, addresses, and phone numbers. So if you think your traveling days are over, think again!


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Planning a Family Vacation

Whether traveling with babies and young children is exhilarating or exhausting, thrilling or terrifying depends in large part on your attitude -- and your preparation is mental; You need to refine your expectations so that you don't envision something that could never come to pass. A handful of tried-and-true good parenting techniques are just as important on the road as they are at home. Finally, you need to choose a destination that works for you as a family, with something for everyone to enjoy. Zeroing in on the perfect spot and setting all the plans in motion is the first challenge for a family traveler.

The changing mindscape is a challenge when it comes to planning trips for a family. But in a way, traveling with youngsters is a little like traveling with anyone else: You have to consider your companions' interests as well as your own. Practically speaking, that means picking a destination that can be appreciated at many different levels, one where your toddler can get excited about, say, the museum's colorful floor tiles, the ants along the trail, or the restaurant's novel bathrooms while you admire the exhibits, the woodlands' grandeur, or the view over the harbor from your table. You also want a destination with at least one attraction that will be really special to at least one member of the family -- ypurself included.

Whatever your choice, make sure that the places you choose to stay do welcome families so you don't feel as if you have to apologize for your children when they're just acting their age.


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Fodor's globe-trotting parents show you how you can take your kids just about anywhere. Get great advice on: zeroing in on the best-bet vacations for newborns, toddlers, and preschoolers; traveling smart to the beach, the city, and the countryside, here and abroad; tried-and-true strategies for getting the best deals wherever you go; finding the most family-friendly hotels; packing; childproofing your hotel room; eating smart and other secrets of whine-free vacationing. Plus real-life stories from travelers like you; questions and answers; checklists, do's and don'ts; web sites, addresses, and phone numbers. So if you think your traveling days are over, think again!


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