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Holidays 2019

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Gwladysstreetlad said:
I was hoping to do just that mate. I want the full experience, or as close as you can get to that in three weeks anyway.

A couple of the friends I'm traveling with are more clued into the details of how to get about ect as they've been before. Can't wait TBH, I've not looked forward to a holiday like this since I was a kid.
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You’ll love it. I’ve been able to visit twice over the past two years for work and have been able to add on some days to sightsee. Like another poster mentioned definitely try to get down to Kyoto. It’s only a three hour train ride with the Shinkansen. You’ll be pretty close to Himeji castle as well. Think it was 30 minutes from Osaka. So not too far from Kyoto
 
thirdmantackle said:
Last years thread was closed down, so here we go...

I need a small bit of advice as we're looking to book a holiday. Has anyone ever done a fly and camp holiday in the french alps with a child younger than 1?
We are hoping to go at the end of June early July for about 13 nights.
a few questions
1 - did it end up being expensive as you couldn't bring all the 'stuff'?
2 - was the holiday suitable for the toddler?
3 - if doing it again would you do anything different?

thanks in advance
looking forward to hearing where other Blues are heading.
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We consulted with an infant travel doctor when we contemplated taking our 1 year old into a remote area where we work (he ended up staying with mom and I went alone), and the biggest worry is dehydration since they are so small. This could be caused by something innocuous (change in diet, such as camp food), but they can get seriously dehydrated in hours, not days. And while breast feeding can help replenish fluids, it won't offset dehydration if the infant has diarhhea (and it's hard to tell a 1yr old to "drink up" and even harder to put in an IV). So...in any case, I'd consider dehydration risks (which might be small, but important to consider) against the remoteness of where you will be.
 
thirdmantackle said:
Ok. Where else could we go with a one year old?
We'll be hiring a car
The campsites have chalets for hire
We'd prefer to get out into the outdoors and we've done plenty of hiking and camping in the past.

We're looking at flying as otherwise it'll be too long for the child in a car seat.
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it's ideal for kids of all ages mate, without the restrictions of hotels, at your door you're outside. Kids are fine on planes, we did a 36 hr 1 with a 6 month old then when she was about 14 months we went to vegas (not ideal tbh with a kid but we didnt pay) which entailed a fair old journey as well, but you are only on about a couple of hours in the air so you'll be fine. I couldnt even imagine taking ours in a hotel now, i doubt they'd enjoy it and would find it restricting. That said though anywhere is better than nowhere like last year.
 
verreauxi said:
We consulted with an infant travel doctor when we contemplated taking our 1 year old into a remote area where we work (he ended up staying with mom and I went alone), and the biggest worry is dehydration since they are so small. This could be caused by something innocuous (change in diet, such as camp food), but they can get seriously dehydrated in hours, not days. And while breast feeding can help replenish fluids, it won't offset dehydration if the infant has diarhhea (and it's hard to tell a 1yr old to "drink up" and even harder to put in an IV). So...in any case, I'd consider dehydration risks (which might be small, but important to consider) against the remoteness of where you will be.
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if you assess everything too much you wont go anywhere, he's not on about doing some Bear Grylls type holiday he's on about a eurocamp with a supermarket, doctor and everything else almost to hand. The weather may be a tad warm in july though & you will definitely regret not taking advantage of going outside the school hols when you no longer have the option to, looking at it long term the savings you would make kind of offset the extra you'll pay eventually. If cost isn't even a consideration then you can book for us to tag along as well as 'advisors.'
 
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian said:
if you assess everything too much you wont go anywhere, he's not on about doing some Bear Grylls type holiday he's on about a eurocamp with a supermarket, doctor and everything else almost to hand. The weather may be a tad warm in july though & you will definitely regret not taking advantage of going outside the school hols when you no longer have the option to, looking at it long term the savings you would make kind of offset the extra you'll pay eventually. If cost isn't even a consideration then you can book for us to tag along as well as 'advisors.'
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I clearly didn't understand what was meant by "fly and camp holiday" as the only time I've done that, they landed a plane on a glacier in Alaska, dropped us off, and said they'd be back in one week. We packed in all our food and were all alone, even without a radio. No one else was present for miles and miles. This is what I envisioned (and would likely not take a 1yr old there), but if there is a supermarket, doctor, etc., then yeah...all is certainly fine.
 

thirdmantackle said:
Last years thread was closed down, so here we go...

I need a small bit of advice as we're looking to book a holiday. Has anyone ever done a fly and camp holiday in the french alps with a child younger than 1?
We are hoping to go at the end of June early July for about 13 nights.
a few questions
1 - did it end up being expensive as you couldn't bring all the 'stuff'?
2 - was the holiday suitable for the toddler?
3 - if doing it again would you do anything different?

thanks in advance
looking forward to hearing where other Blues are heading.
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I misunderstood what "fly and camp holiday" meant, so ignore my previous post!
 
verreauxi said:
I clearly didn't understand what was meant by "fly and camp holiday" as the only time I've done that, they landed a plane on a glacier in Alaska, dropped us off, and said they'd be back in one week. We packed in all our food and were all alone, even without a radio. No one else was present for miles and miles. This is what I envisioned (and would likely not take a 1yr old there), but if there is a supermarket, doctor, etc., then yeah...all is certainly fine.
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not quite that lol
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thats Lake Garda to the left, the site is pretty much all of that picture to about 2/3 of the way up, pn the far shore thereis a theme park & a universal studios place.
 

thirdmantackle said:
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More outdoors type of site than eurocamp. I did enough of that as a child.
Cannot go outside school holidays
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the other fella can recommend a place then, there's plenty of ice to melt to avoid dehydration. I'd have thought it would be difficult to take all of the stuff a baby requires unless you drive though, when we went anywhere when any of them were so young my parents were already there with their caravan as well so had taken stuff over for us, we did have to take a lot of stuff though cos of my daughters allergy, it wasnt always required but until we'd been to the places we didnt know what the food & egg free situation was so a lot was taken just in case.
 
Going to Prague at the end of the month for what should be a very memorable few days!! (I'm bringing a ring!)

Then going to the TRS Yucatan in Mexico in August for a 5 star all inclusive 2 weeks! Never done anything like that before so looking forward to relaxation.
 
Tree13 said:
Not at all trying to criticise, because I presume you've done this before and therefore have solutions to the issues I'm about to mention... If I had a very young child like you're talking about it wouldn't even cross my mind to take it on a plane or take it camping - both strike me as rather baby-unfriendly activities.

If Mrs. Tree and I go anywhere for more than a long weekend this year, it will be South Africa again.
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I took my lad to the canaries (4 hour flight) in July just gone, he was 3 months old the day we flew out, he slept there and back the whole flight, to be totally honest, the screaming 3-4 year olds where the ones who shouldn't have been on that flight in my opinion haha
 

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