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Seeing as we're just back from a lovely 2 week hols with the ever cheeky baby snowboarder, I thought I'd share my 2 lifesaver holiday tips...thought others could add theirs for the upcoming season maybe!


1. Take an easily portable/foldable booster seat! Bought ours from mothercare and was convinced was yet another of my mad baby gear stupid purchases, BUT used pretty much every day. Southern Spain doesn't seem to do highchairs it seems, and there is simply no way babysb could eat in his buggy like they expected him to!


2. Invest in Jojo sheet sleeping bag - much lighter than a 1 tog, perfect for hot nights.


Sorry maybe these are obv to more seasoned parents...but...well, just thought I'd share!

Sheet sleeping bags are ACE. Annoyingly expensive d

for what they are, but very good.


Blackout blind, or several, or as someone has suggested on here binbags and sticky tape! Hotels and holiday apartments seem to specialise in thin white curtains and getting up at dawn every day is no fun.


Small rucksack coolbag for yomping lunch or drinks about


a baby backpack with a sunshade / raincover hood - ours is from bushbaby, and we have been extremely glad of both covers! Oh, and a nice bloke to carry the heavy child around... :-)


a corkscrew! and a small folding knife (Opinel) for picnics.


Sigh... want to go on holiday.

totally agree


blackout blinds or binliners - a must


for toddlers - don't take anything, just buy a bucket, spade and ball out there (will a lot cheaper buying out there)


food food food food food for the aeroplane - even if you are a parent that doesn't agree with snacks - make a fabulous fruit salad (you can take it through as baby food as long as you taste it) and it'll shut them up for AGES


toddlers - stickers books and (sorry, please don't yell at me) portable dvd players


for just moving, crawling, wandering babies - just a strong back as you wander up and down and up and down and up and down that aisle!!! honestly, don't panic cos they will be quiet and fine as long as you are prepared for them to entertain the rest of the people on the flight


we have just come home from our hols - don't know who is more mad - mrpebbles who had to sing bob the builder non stop for 3 hours or me who had to crawl up and down aisle with miss pebbles non stop for 3 hours!!! - well worth the travel though - hols were fab


good luck for everyone's summer hols - it'll be worth it

1. We get so used to every restaurant having highchairs that it can be a shock when places don't. Depends on age of mini-boarders but rather than a chunky booster seat, we've got a fabric "high chair" that you tie on to proper chair and then tie baby to - has worked with mini njc since he was little up to current 19 months, and folds up into a small package and lives under the pram.

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