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From pre-trip planning to pre-empting and dealing with challenges when away, "The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Children" is the ultimate comprehensive guide to hassle-free family travel. With the low-down on everything from planning your itinerary and accommodation to what to bring and how to pack it, the guide is packed with tips on painless travel by plane, car, bus or train, as well how to deal with delays, queues and travel sickness. Insiders' tips from destinations all around the globe ensure you'll know what to expect when you arrive. You'll find thoroughly researched and accessible advice on coping with the challenges once you're there, from eating out with toddlers to getting enough sleep. Ideal for busy parents, the guide comes complete with listings of resources, websites and further reading, plus handy checklists, first-hand stories and advice from travel industry experts and parents who've been there and done it.
About the Author
With a doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fawzia Rasheed worked as research scientist with the Medical Research Council (UK) before working in the UN as a Senior Policy Adviser. In the course of her travels and work, Fawzia has taken her children along wherever possible. Her eldest son started his travels at 6 weeks and celebrated his first birthday on his fifth continent.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
a little disapointed,
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This review is from: Rough Guide Travel With Babies And Young Children (Paperback)
If you have ever travelled more than 4 hours away with your child, you know already a lot and this book won't help much. In addition, living in a remote community my child had already taken the plane. The stories from other parents are nice to read and help you see you are not the only one wanting to do this (being travel with young children). I would have liked more specific information (toilets, changing rooms, available cereals, etc.). The book is nicely written, information is clear and accurate, I just wanted more of it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews) 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Finally--a great guide for real family travel,
By Tim Leffel "Editor, PerceptiveTravel.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rough Guide Travel With Babies And Young Children (Paperback)
As the author of several travel books, I often get asked for recommendations on books covering the very different world of traveling with young children. Until now, I've usually sent people to blogs or websites on the subject because none of the books available really covered the subject with any depth. Way too much of the practical advice deals with either car trips to grandma's or well-worn paths to Disney World and Hawaii. What about the people looking for a richer experience?This book is different. Rough Guides are geared to travelers who want to do more than skim the surface of a destination and this family travel guide goes beyond the simplistic advice about keeping your little ones occupied on the road. Travel with Babies and Young children convinces you that almost anything is possible, but is not afraid to point out the hurdles and sensitivity issues you will encounter along the way. After its 209 pages of advice, rundowns, and stories from other travelers, your family will be ready for whatever the world throws at you all. As someone who got his daughter a passport when she turned three, I found the tips here to be right on the money. This will be my de facto gift to new mothers and fathers from now on. 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing special,
By B. Santaro "Incubating" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rough Guide Travel With Babies And Young Children (Paperback)
I've traveled, sans, with, and as a child, and have a multicultural international family so that might bias me, but I didn't find this book to contain any advice that was extraordinary. For those who are visiting someplace far and unfamiliar, some of the information regarding basic customs might be useful, but do parents really need to be told to bring items to entertain kids, or that trains and airports can be interesting place for kids to explore within reason and supervision. This has more common sense broad advice, not detailed from the trenches this is what to do in this location information, and it glazes over broad areas. If you desire something more specific or hidden ideas for actual situations and products look elsewhere.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Mediocre at best,
By C. Allen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rough Guide Travel With Babies And Young Children (Paperback)
This book is basically a stream of consciousness on travel, and reads like a novel rather than a resource guide.It includes as many important points as it excludes. The advice is basically run-of-the-mill, like how to check-in at the airport. It mixes up advice for infants, toddlers and young children, so it's not easy to get relevant info. Lastly, the index is poor, so looking things up is not easy. Because this is the first edition (published Jan. 2008), hopefully they'll get it right after a few more tries. In the meantime, consider some of the other books like Rivoli's Travels with Baby -- it's still not great, but much better than this one. |
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