How will you choose your destination, where will you stay, what should you take with you and especially if you have young children, what should you look out for during your summer vacation?
Traveling with one, two or more is not the same as the comfortable unplanned weekends you enjoyed before creating your beloved family. This does not mean, however, that they can not in their own way become a special experience for all of you. You will plan them smartly starting well before the day of departure and your trip will be just the prelude to the wonderful vacation that is coming.
Step 1: What will be the destination of your summer vacation?
The first question is the destination. How do you find a place that satisfies the whole family? The interests and needs of the children are just as important as yours.
If you choose a seaside place, it should have a beach with easy access and suitable for young children, but at the same time it should cover some of the conditions that you and your partner consider necessary for your relaxation and fun.
A cosmopolitan island may not be the best choice unless you plan to stay in a hotel with qualified staff and activities designed to keep your children entertained. But Greece is a wonderful place and the solutions it offers can please even the most demanding. Too many islands, coastal villages and towns or mountainous areas if you prefer, to rest your eyes and your soul and regain your strength.
Even if the idea seems commonplace, focusing on a more "family" place, or just being quiet, may prove to be the solution for you. At first your children will have secured company, but you too will have the opportunity to be with other people of the same age and with similar interests as your own and you may return having made some very good friends. But mainly and especially during the so-called peak months such as July and August you will enjoy the best service at the best prices while others will be looking for a place for their towel on the beach.
Step 2 Finding hotels and pensions suitable for children on your summer vacation.
- Yes, you should start looking for the right room to accommodate you and your children earlier. Remember that your data is now different.
- If you have the opportunity and if you are going to stay long enough in a particular place it would be good to visit it earlier and see the hotel or house before booking. If not here's a new product just for you!
- If you do not have a means of transportation it should be close to the "center". You should have easy access to the market, the playground by the sea and in general your movement should not be difficult or problematic.
- Also - especially if you have a baby - there should be a doctor and the ability to move quickly in case you need it. A secluded place, no matter how beautiful, is not safe.
Step 3: Inform the children.
- First - first tell them how many days you will leave. Children love the holidays but do not have the sense of time to understand the meaning of waiting. So it's not a bad idea to wake him up every morning playing the countdown with him telling him how many days are left until the day you leave.
- Describe the place you will go and the activities he can have there, swimming in the sea, playing with other children, nature, everything that will excite him and make him look forward to the start of the holidays with impatience and joy.
Step 4: Suitcases and everything you need.
- To do this admittedly difficult job, get organized. Make a list of everything you think you will need. In addition to clothes and the like, do not forget to add to the list your family doctor's phone and a suitcase with everything you need for first aid (iodine alcohol gauze painkillers antipyretic antibiotics and bandages). If you are traveling by car it is very useful to have a flashlight, children's jacket and lots of wet baby wipes with you.
- Pick up a few every day. Your children can help you by putting their own things and toys all together in one place so that you only have to pack them later. This arrangement has a dual benefit. On the one hand the children feel great and useful when they can help and on the other hand they will never forget their favorite game as it can happen to you where you have to think and provide for everything.
Step 5 One night before SLEEP.
As much as you can to face the next day relaxed and optimistic. Make sure your children do the same.
Step 6: The day of your summer family vacation has arrived.
If you are going to travel by car, do not consider the route as a necessary evil, instead think that it is part of your vacation that you could take advantage of accordingly. By whatever means you travel, you have some handy toys with you so that the children can have fun. Also various snacks (fruit cookies and various other dry foods that will satisfy the hunger of your little travelers. Water juices and soft drinks in case you or your children get hot or thirsty. If your baby is very small his milk and some diapers in your bag are necessary.
City holidays
- The nursery is closed and your little one is warming up every day at home. He is also bored indefinitely. Although your leave is late there is no need to wait until then. Organize city vacations with activities that will take you out of the routine and entertain you more perhaps than your children.
- Visit museums, archeological sites or just the beautiful parts of the city that you rarely go to, absorbed in your daily obligations.
- Go for a walk in the bookstores and the flea markets. Look for books and objects different and unusual, buy a new puzzle or an exotic cookbook and promise that by the end of the summer you will try all the recipes. Take your little one for a walk in a musical instrument store and teach him to distinguish them and recognize their different sounds.
- Now you can stay in the playground until late. While your child is playing you have time to read that book you bought last winter. Spend an afternoon together (you, your partner and the children) in the park. To play together, walk, and relax drinking your coffee on the grass while your kids have fun.
Tourist in your home
- Turn off the TV for a week. The bad news never ends but now it is summer. Spend the afternoon with your child hanging out to play together. In the evening, sit with your partner on the terrace to enjoy a drink together.
- Arrange all your old disks (Finally). Even if your kids are not crazy about the music you listened to as a teenager, they might still have fun with it - come on. If not here's a new product just for you!
Summer is here, so plan your vacation, if you have not already done so, Greece has beautiful places waiting for you to visit. Choose a destination, pack your bags and have a good vacation.
