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Just how far could you go with your caravan? A summer holiday by the beach in southern Europe perhaps?
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Exploring further afield, both in the UK and abroad, is what this part of the website is all about.
Browse a number of our family travel topics, tips, and useful resources for planning your own trip.
Motorhome Travels
Pack all your family’s adventure gear in motorhome and set off on an adventure.
Take a Family Road Trip across the USA
It can take a bit of saving for, but a family road trip in the USA is an excellent adventure, and will give your kids experiences and view of the real United States instead of through TV, films, press, and theme parks.
After many years of not travelling abroad, we had saved enough for this holiday of a lifetime.
Read how we did it, where we went, and plan your own family road trip.
Visit Venice on a Budget
It can be a tricky balance: finding somewhere to broaden your kids horizons, somewhere to have fun and relax, and somewhere that fits into a sensible budget.
Fortunately this is possible. You can stay somewhere with beach access, the beaches are long and clean with plenty of space, there’s pools and kids entertainment, and you can easily get into Venice….by boat (of course). Click here to find out more.
Create your own bit of luxury in Spain AND save money if you are a larger family
If, like us, you have more than 2 children, you soon find hotels get even more expensive when looking for a holiday in the sun.
Self catering apartments become more like a small squat, as the very small living/eating area has to be turned into beds.
However, if you are prepared to organise things yourself, there is a more affordable option than many package holidays, plus you can end up with a holiday that’s far more luxurious than many family package holidays.
Travel and Stay in the UK
You don’t have to go abroad to travel; there’s plenty of places to stay and explore in the UK.
When we’re not travelling around the country camping (which is a really affordable way to explore the country), we have been known to stay in a cottage.
Unfortunately some cottages have been pretty dire, but at last we’ve found a company that’s always delivered the goods. See who we use to hire a cottage.
Useful Family Travel Resources
- Eurocamp | Read our review
- Holiday Lettings | Read our review
- Sykes Cottages | Read our review
- Superbreak | We’ve used them before a number of times
- Legoland Holidays | Read our review
- Chessington Holidays | Read our review
- Skyscanner | Useful for finding flights
- Trip Advisor | Useful for getting reviews of places.
- Alamo Car Rental | We used Alamo in the US. There are other rentals of course.
- Holiday Autos | We used Holiday Autos to find a hire car in Europe.
- Uber | Found this more useful and cheaper than taxis. Family sized vehicles too.
- Roadtrippers | This was useful in planning what to see on the US road trip.
- What you can or can’t take on a flight | Useful to check what the current rules are.
A few more travel tips:
- Flying while pregnant tips: here (NHS), here and here. Plus, is it safe to fly while pregnant?
- Flying with babies tips
Travel Planning Tools
Find that perfect family cottage
As much as we love camping here on Get Out With The Kids, sometimes a solid roof over your head is the better option, especially if travelling far, arriving late at night, or the weather is not the best.
We’ve stayed with Sykes Cottages a number of times and have always been impressed. You can read our review of one of our stays here.
Create your own family holiday
Today it’s easier than ever to create your own family holiday.
It might take a bit more work, but if you are prepared to search for yourself, you could get a better holiday and cheaper than you can find in the travel agents.
Use Skyscanner to find availability of flights to where you want to go.
Book a family car abroad
You can easily hire a car to pick up at the airport you arrive up. For travelling in Europe this will certainly save you a lot of time in your holiday, avoiding having to take the ferry and spend hours driving….all in your right hand drive car. We’ve used Holiday Autos for finding and booking a car in Europe.
Latest Posts in Travel
Below are the most recent articles published on family travel.
This is an interesting idea: a beach umbrella that can also be a beach shelter. We look at the Easy Camp Coast.
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The Benson Family have a family adventure in the Isles of Scilly, and share 10 ideas for your own family adventure on the Scilly Isles.
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Ever planned on taking the kids camping in the USA? James Kaiser shares his top 4 places to take the kids camping in the USA.
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We review the Memphis and Phoenix bags. Retro-looking but modern bags ideal for travel. And not from a brand you would expect.
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We’ve been testing out the Bubel lightweight towel, which is proving great for travel and camping.
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12 tips for family travel, staying in hostels, or packing for camping or backpacking.
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Camping with a tent or a motorhome – which is best? We look at the pros and cons of both.
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This trip took us through some of the hottest desert in the world and then up into the Sierra mountains.
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“You don’t need to go to the Yukon to have an adventure”. You can have them closer to home, making it easy to fill your family’s life full of adventure.
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