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This is almost essential, especially if you are going to several sites within one day. Taking a tour with just your family may work out to be more expensive toyota previa car rental gatwick airport but the benefit toyota previa car rental gatwick airport of doing so is priceless. Kids have their own schedules…they may need to pee, stop because they feel sick, want to change seats 101 times and thus having the tour guide exclusively at your disposal is so much less stress than having the needs of other people to accommodate. The other great thing about having your taxi or tour bus only available to you is that there is more space for your luggage and you can take everything you need with you (which, with kids, is usually A WHOLE LOT plus the kitchen sink)
You need to know exactly what your tour involves so you can pack and prepare toyota previa car rental gatwick airport appropriately. If you are visiting multiple water activities toyota previa car rental gatwick airport you will need to know how far apart they are so you know if you need to pack more changes of clothes and towels. If the two activities are close together toyota previa car rental gatwick airport you may want to stay wrapped in a towel and be ready for the next activity as soon as you get off the bus (do check that your tour operator is okay with this arrangement).
Find out what the dress code is for the restaurant you will be eating at and whether the casual ‘sarong and sand in the hair look’ is appropriate or if you’ll feel awkward. With all the extra space you have by taking a private tour you have plenty of room for all the clothes you want to bring.
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Kids need snacks and usually lots of them. Take a packed lunch with portable food you know they will eat in case the restaurant you visit does not offer anything to suit their taste-buds. Remember hungry children are grouchy children and grouchy children do not a good trip make. If going out for the whole day I will usually take a set of sandwiches, fruits, oat bars and water to make sure they are filled up and happy. Everything else we get along the way is then a bonus not a necessity.
Ideally you want your kids to watch out the window and soak up the sights toyota previa car rental gatwick airport of your great adventure. But the likelihood is that they will react like my 3 year old who proclaimed, after five minutes of driving, that ‘I want to get out of this boring bus!’ (When we hiked he was asking to get back on the bus!) Make sure you have all the tools at hand that you would for any long road trip – books, toyota previa car rental gatwick airport camera, I-pad, toyota previa car rental gatwick airport audiobooks, I-Spy checklists etc
However before you do resort to entertainment try being enthusiastic. One of the great things toyota previa car rental gatwick airport I love about my young children is that they are easily infected by my enthusiasm toyota previa car rental gatwick airport so, as much as I might want to watch the scenery in a quiet space of mind, I know that I also have to draw their interest to things that are different toyota previa car rental gatwick airport or new ‘Oh look a rainbow’, ‘Hey look a herd of goats!’ ‘Wow! We are getting close to the beach, what can you see?’ ‘Can you smell the sulphur from the hot springs yet?’ When I am excited and enthusiastic about the things we are seeing and relate it to them, they enjoy the trip a lot more.
Your guide has probably toyota previa car rental gatwick airport done the trip you are taking many times and has a set of information to tell you about the trip. However, I always find it an interesting part of the trip itself to get to know the guide and build a relationship that both of you can learn from and that enriches toyota previa car rental gatwick airport the experience. toyota previa car rental gatwick airport Ask questions based on your personal interests and empower your children ask questions and listen to answers too. I find it very positive for my children to be able to voice their queries and opinions and learn how to form a relationship with someone new – most often the things a guide or passer-by has told them stick in their mind more than anything I discuss with them!
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