Airport Parking and Hotels (APH) Highlights Top Tips for Travelling with Kids

Added: (Tue Jun 15 2010)

Pressbox (Press Release) - June 2010

‘ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?’
- Airport Parking and Hotels Offers Top Tips on Keeping the Kids Entertained -

Travelling with children can sometimes be a challenge and test of patience for parents, so Airport Parking and Hotels (APH) has compiled a list of games and top tips to help parents stay one step ahead of the tantrums, whether they are from troublesome two year olds through to teenagers.

Here is a sneak preview below of the top tips or click on your child’s age group for a full downloadable list:

Babies & Toddlers (pre-school): www.aph.com/tipsforkids
They often don’t need too much, as long as you have their favourite teddy and blanket to hand so try these in your hand luggage:
• Pack your child’s favourite fruit, snacks and sandwiches cut into fun shapes
• Pack a few favourite toys and comforters
• Pack child neck supports, a blanket and pyjamas
• Babies are often happy to play with the simplest things such as cups and laminated safety cards on aeroplanes, so there is no need to lug a huge bag of toys on holiday
• Play peek-a-boo with small children

Younger Children (aged 5-11): www.aph.com/tipsforkids
They need things to stimulate their inquisitive minds as they bore easily, so a good selection of activities should include:
• Provide each child with a bag of their own toys and a few new ones for a surprise treat
• Compile a ‘fun book’ with word searches, dot-to-dot games, noughts and crosses tables, colouring pages, holiday trivia and a fun map of the holiday destination
• Make sure you know how to play guessing games – I-Spy, Who am I?, Car Bingo, 20 Questions, and guess the colour of Mr Men
• Audio Story Books - download stories onto an iPod or buy some audio story books to play in the car

Teenagers (11 upwards): www.aph.com/tipsforkids
They are less dependent on adult supervision and can largely amuse themselves, with a few well placed props:
• Pack magnetic board games such as GoSpy, Scrabble, Monopoly and Cluedo
• Make sure you’ve packed their favourite food and drink (but you’ll need to replenish the latter after Airport Security) so there’s no excuse for those teenage tantrums
• Make sure they take a good selection of reading material and encourage them to use waiting or journey time to go over revision notes if they are approaching exam season
• Don’t forget the Nintendo- DS, PSP, i-Pods and hand-held DVDs – make sure they are fully charged for the journey before you set off and don’t forget headphones

Airport Parking and Hotels Ltd is one of the UK’s leading booking agencies and this year celebrates its 30th year as a retailer and operator of pre-booked airport parking and travel extras. APH offers parking at all major UK airports, ports and Eurotunnel terminals plus airport hotels packaged with parking and airport lounges. APH is also a carbon balanced company and has, through the World Land Trust, helped purchase more than 1,000 acres of endangered rainforest.

For further information visit www.aph.com or call 01342 859515.
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