America and taking a 21 month old?!
America and taking a 21 month old?!
We have decied that we are going to go to america next year well thats the plan
Its more for me and my partner than for our little boy as my OH has never been and i went 5 years ago when i was 16, and loved it and said i would go back
I am going to look into it in the comming weeks and we said aboyut getting a villa in kissimee rather than staying in a hotel, i wouldnt mind doing that, but i think a villa would work out cheaper and we were also going to hire a car is that called a fly drive we are hoping to maybe go out for 3 weeks if we can depends on the cost we could do al the theme parks and water parks and the 3rd week drive around and see some of america.
We are hoping to go May time or September, dont want to go in the skool holidays or when its to hot, i went in may and the weather was nice then
If we go in May our little boy will be 21 months if we go in september he will be 25 months!
The flight is long and im not looking foward to that, but do you think that at this age it would be silly, i no he wont rember it, but there is plenty there for him to do and like i said its more for us :lol:
Would i be mad to consider it
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Crikey, you do agonise, don't you? It's a year away!
Still, some thoughts - first, don't worry about how hard your kid finds the flight. I was stuffed on planes and shipped back and forth across the Atlantic from the age of three and I have no recollection at all of it being anything other than boring. What are you worried about? The worst thing will be for you - and of course the people sitting near you - keeping a two-year-old amused.
Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
A fly-drive is a holiday where you book the flights and the car hire together, possibly with some accommodation. For what you want I suggest you do it yourself: find some websites that do villa rentals, and book the flights and the car hire separately - you'll get the best deals.
I suspect May will be better than September - you're deep into hurricane season in September and it will still be stinking hot. Look at the havoc Katrina wrought. Even think about March or April, it's lovely then. And cheaper.
Florida is not an interesting state to drive around, and it's a big one. In Kissimme you're a long way from, say, Miami or the Keys, or even from Sanibel and Captiva islands. You're also a long way from the Panhandle coastline, too, which actually I'd really like to see. I wouldn't recommend a driving holiday in that part of Florida. Or indeed any part of Florida - it's really flat and dull.
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don't worry about how hard your kid finds the flight. I was stuffed on planes and shipped back and forth across the Atlantic from the age of three and I have no recollection at all of it being anything other than boring. What are you worried about? The worst thing will be for you - and of course the people sitting near you - keeping a two-year-old amused.
Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
A fly-drive is a holiday where you book the flights and the car hire together, possibly with some accommodation. For what you want I suggest you do it yourself: find some websites that do villa rentals, and book the flights and the car hire separately - you'll get the best deals.
I suspect May will be better than September Even think about March or April, it's lovely then. And cheaper.
Thats what im worried about trying to keep him amuzed for so long i no that he will sleep, but he isnt old enough to know whats happening really and will want to be doing things, he cant sit still now :rolleyes:
2 years is when they have to have there onw seat but your right i will request one for him the 2 hour 40 min flight to corfu was bad enough
I didnt realise that florida wasnt near much, maybe we wont then drive around the main reason is for the theme parks anyway
The reason why we are thinking about it now, is so that we can save up and have something to look foward to, if were thinking about going in possibly 8 months it will soon be round, dont want to do a last min thing as we have just done this and have left ourselves skint til the end of the month:rolleyes:
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I once flew back from Sydney to London in business class - thank God - and as I was checking in I saw a woman with a toddler also checking in for my flight at the business class desk. I had a filthy cold and was feeling miserable because I'd had an ill-advised fling while I was in Sydney and the guy had turned into an arse.
As I got on the plane, it became horribly clear to me that the woman and her toddler were sitting next to me - and he didn't have a seat of his own. I didn't want to sit next to anyone, never mind a mother and her toddler. Even George Clooney wouldn't have had much sparkling conversation out of me.
Mercifully the cabin wasn't full and I could move to another seat, and thank God I did as once the seatbelt sign was off, the toddler marched up and down the cabin all the way to Bangkok (nine hours). It was a night flight, so you can imagine how popular the mother and toddler were with the suits whose tickets had cost £4,000.
During the fuelling stop at Bangkok, the mother said to me "I don't blame you for moving, I wouldn't want to sit next to us either." I smiled weakly, then she said: "He's getting something." She gave him some pill or something and we got back on the plane for the Bangkok-London leg, which is also an overnight flight. The toddler slept for about an hour and a half, and then spent the next 10 and a half hours marching up and down the cabin ...
Your child cannot be that bad!! Or sleepless!
Seriously, one tip I've heard is to pack a bag full of activities that he hasn't seen before - presents, if you like. Bring them out at reasonably well-spaced intervals so that he doesn't have a chance to get bored - when he starts looking fed up with one thing, produce the next new exciting thing.
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Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
Florida is not an interesting state to drive around, and it's a big one. In Kissimme you're a long way from, say, Miami or the Keys, or even from Sanibel and Captiva islands. You're also a long way from the Panhandle coastline, too, which actually I'd really like to see. I wouldn't recommend a driving holiday in that part of Florida. Or indeed any part of Florida - it's really flat and dull.
Completely agree with the fact that you need to get a seat for him. I've sat next to some of the lap babies in coach on the UK to FL runs & I was seriously tempted to do harm to the child. It's a long flight & regardless of how sweet & loveable your child is they will most likely not be able to sit still for that long & will inspire murderous thoughts in your seatmates.
May & Sept will both be hot & sticky, though Sept is in hurricane season so take that into consideration.
I take exception the remark that Florida's not an interesting drive though. It's not very interesting right around Kissimmee, but depending on where you'd like to spend the third week, if you're just planning on driving there's some beautiful scenery. It is flat - no doubt about that, but there's plenty of gorgeous non-touristy areas you can find if you're looking & ones that we don't normally advertise to tourists. ;)
We have decied that we are going to go to america next year well thats the plan
Its more for me and my partner than for our little boy as my OH has never been and i went 5 years ago when i was 16, and loved it and said i would go back
I am going to look into it in the comming weeks and we said aboyut getting a villa in kissimee rather than staying in a hotel, i wouldnt mind doing that, but i think a villa would work out cheaper and we were also going to hire a car is that called a fly drive we are hoping to maybe go out for 3 weeks if we can depends on the cost we could do al the theme parks and water parks and the 3rd week drive around and see some of america.
We are hoping to go May time or September, dont want to go in the skool holidays or when its to hot, i went in may and the weather was nice then
If we go in May our little boy will be 21 months if we go in september he will be 25 months!
The flight is long and im not looking foward to that, but do you think that at this age it would be silly, i no he wont rember it, but there is plenty there for him to do and like i said its more for us :lol:
Would i be mad to consider it
Answers:
Crikey, you do agonise, don't you? It's a year away!
Still, some thoughts - first, don't worry about how hard your kid finds the flight. I was stuffed on planes and shipped back and forth across the Atlantic from the age of three and I have no recollection at all of it being anything other than boring. What are you worried about? The worst thing will be for you - and of course the people sitting near you - keeping a two-year-old amused.
Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
A fly-drive is a holiday where you book the flights and the car hire together, possibly with some accommodation. For what you want I suggest you do it yourself: find some websites that do villa rentals, and book the flights and the car hire separately - you'll get the best deals.
I suspect May will be better than September - you're deep into hurricane season in September and it will still be stinking hot. Look at the havoc Katrina wrought. Even think about March or April, it's lovely then. And cheaper.
Florida is not an interesting state to drive around, and it's a big one. In Kissimme you're a long way from, say, Miami or the Keys, or even from Sanibel and Captiva islands. You're also a long way from the Panhandle coastline, too, which actually I'd really like to see. I wouldn't recommend a driving holiday in that part of Florida. Or indeed any part of Florida - it's really flat and dull.
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don't worry about how hard your kid finds the flight. I was stuffed on planes and shipped back and forth across the Atlantic from the age of three and I have no recollection at all of it being anything other than boring. What are you worried about? The worst thing will be for you - and of course the people sitting near you - keeping a two-year-old amused.
Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
A fly-drive is a holiday where you book the flights and the car hire together, possibly with some accommodation. For what you want I suggest you do it yourself: find some websites that do villa rentals, and book the flights and the car hire separately - you'll get the best deals.
I suspect May will be better than September Even think about March or April, it's lovely then. And cheaper.
Thats what im worried about trying to keep him amuzed for so long i no that he will sleep, but he isnt old enough to know whats happening really and will want to be doing things, he cant sit still now :rolleyes:
2 years is when they have to have there onw seat but your right i will request one for him the 2 hour 40 min flight to corfu was bad enough
I didnt realise that florida wasnt near much, maybe we wont then drive around the main reason is for the theme parks anyway
The reason why we are thinking about it now, is so that we can save up and have something to look foward to, if were thinking about going in possibly 8 months it will soon be round, dont want to do a last min thing as we have just done this and have left ourselves skint til the end of the month:rolleyes:
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I once flew back from Sydney to London in business class - thank God - and as I was checking in I saw a woman with a toddler also checking in for my flight at the business class desk. I had a filthy cold and was feeling miserable because I'd had an ill-advised fling while I was in Sydney and the guy had turned into an arse.
As I got on the plane, it became horribly clear to me that the woman and her toddler were sitting next to me - and he didn't have a seat of his own. I didn't want to sit next to anyone, never mind a mother and her toddler. Even George Clooney wouldn't have had much sparkling conversation out of me.
Mercifully the cabin wasn't full and I could move to another seat, and thank God I did as once the seatbelt sign was off, the toddler marched up and down the cabin all the way to Bangkok (nine hours). It was a night flight, so you can imagine how popular the mother and toddler were with the suits whose tickets had cost £4,000.
During the fuelling stop at Bangkok, the mother said to me "I don't blame you for moving, I wouldn't want to sit next to us either." I smiled weakly, then she said: "He's getting something." She gave him some pill or something and we got back on the plane for the Bangkok-London leg, which is also an overnight flight. The toddler slept for about an hour and a half, and then spent the next 10 and a half hours marching up and down the cabin ...
Your child cannot be that bad!! Or sleepless!
Seriously, one tip I've heard is to pack a bag full of activities that he hasn't seen before - presents, if you like. Bring them out at reasonably well-spaced intervals so that he doesn't have a chance to get bored - when he starts looking fed up with one thing, produce the next new exciting thing.
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Make sure you book a seat for him, even if he's young enough not to require one. Don't be tempted to have him on your lap. If the flight is full you'll be miserable and the people next to you will probably hate you, too. I think at 21 months he's too old for a skycot, so you wouldn't be able to park him there.
Florida is not an interesting state to drive around, and it's a big one. In Kissimme you're a long way from, say, Miami or the Keys, or even from Sanibel and Captiva islands. You're also a long way from the Panhandle coastline, too, which actually I'd really like to see. I wouldn't recommend a driving holiday in that part of Florida. Or indeed any part of Florida - it's really flat and dull.
Completely agree with the fact that you need to get a seat for him. I've sat next to some of the lap babies in coach on the UK to FL runs & I was seriously tempted to do harm to the child. It's a long flight & regardless of how sweet & loveable your child is they will most likely not be able to sit still for that long & will inspire murderous thoughts in your seatmates.
May & Sept will both be hot & sticky, though Sept is in hurricane season so take that into consideration.
I take exception the remark that Florida's not an interesting drive though. It's not very interesting right around Kissimmee, but depending on where you'd like to spend the third week, if you're just planning on driving there's some beautiful scenery. It is flat - no doubt about that, but there's plenty of gorgeous non-touristy areas you can find if you're looking & ones that we don't normally advertise to tourists. ;)