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The Best Travel Essentials for Babies & Toddlers
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items Traveling is a huge task all on its own. Traveling with a baby or toddler makes it that much harder. Here are some different items that helped me and my family. I go from the planning process all the way to the trip itself. As an Amazon Associate, I ...
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Planning the Trip
Airport & Airplane Necessities
Long Car Rides
Packing
Planning the Trip
I personally am an over thinker. These websites help me to save time when I'm planning a trip because they help compare options from different companies.
I love the fact that Expedia looks at so many different flights & hotels all at once. With my son, I don't have a ton of time to jump around from different website to different website. So this has helped to make the planning process that much ea...
Expedia Travel: Vacation Homes, Hotels, Car Rentals, Flights & More
If we are just going somewhere local and are just in need of a hotel, this site tends to be my go to. It is another site that does an awesome job at comparing options. To me this is absolutely essential.
Hotels.com - Deals & Discounts for Hotel Reservations from ...
I love this website because you can compare all the different cruise lines. My son went on a cruise at 9 months and absolutely loved it! I would 10/10 recommend.
Cruise Direct
Airport & Airplane Necessities
Airports can be hard to navigate. These are some of the items that we use to make it easier to get through the airport.
This trike can go ALL the way through the airport and can be folded down and stored in the overhead bin on an airplane. My son loves riding on this thing and absolutely loves it!
Doona Liki Stroller & Trike S3 - Gray Hound
If you are traveling somewhere and need to bring a car seat with, this is perfect. It holds any type of car seat and the best part is it is padded. I know I'm always concerned about messing up the car seat. This helps!
Looxii Car Seat Bags for Air Travel, Padded ...
Snacks! Snacks are so helpful anywhere. These are my sons favorite and are not typically at the airport, so we will to bring our own with.
Serenity Kids 6+ Months Grain Free Puffs Toddler
I have heard SO many good things about it. It can be used as a ride on, can be brought on as a carry on and has a toddler bed all in one. Versatile items are always a plus with kids.
JetKids™ by Stokke® BedBox
This makes getting through the airport so easy once you have dropped off your bags. My son loves to be held and this is a great item to carry him on the plane with.
Tushbaby: Best Hip Seat Baby Carrier For Babies, Kids ...
Long Car Rides
With multiple grandparents who lives in another state, we have been on our share of long car rides. These items help a ton!
I typically don't give my son an iPad or phone during a car ride, but a long trip is an exception. This is great because it can easily be placed on the back of a headrest.
Car Headrest Mount Holder, Tablet
This is absolutely amazing because there are so many different things to do. It helps to keep my son busy for the longest amount of time since there is so much to do and look at.
Busy Board Book
If you have a baby who is still in a bucket seat, these are an absolute must! You can attach them to the handle of the car seat to make sure that your baby does not throw their milk or toys too far.
Toy Straps
If you have a child who is use to sleeping and/or taking naps with a sound machine, this is a lifesaver. It can be easily clipped onto something and is pretty similar to a hatch as far as sounds go.
Portable White Noise Sound Machine
Packing
I swear packing takes forever. These are some items that have helped me navigate the process and speed up my packing.
This may seem like a weird item at first, but trust me! Babies and toddlers have tiny outfits, this makes it so each to plan their outfits ahead of time and keep them separated. It then can be hung up so you can just grab and go.
Over the Door Shoe Organizers
These packing cubes help me to sort all of my sons little items. This makes it so much easier when we get to our travel destination because I automatically know where everything is.
Packing Cubes
My son and I try hard to share a suitcase on our trips. So far we have been able to get both of our things into this suitcase, as long as we do our packing correctly.
Swissgear Checklite Softside Large Checked ...