The Ultimate Family Holiday Packing Checklist

The Ultimate Family Holiday Packing Checklist

Mon 1 March 2010

To relieve some of the stress of packing for a family holiday, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, the UK’s No.1 holiday home website, has come up with a check list of the essentials needed for a self-catering family vacation. Best of all they have gone the extra mile and ensured that those homes available on the site that offer specific baby and toddler friendly facilities are highlighted in their own section. With half the packing done for you, you can pack lighter and happier.

The Holiday Lettings Baby & Toddler Friendly Holiday Idea links to each of the child friendly
properties available on the site:

Even with these key items checked off the list, travelling with children often means packing a lot! Thankfully Holiday Lettings offers a number of ways around this including:

Baby product home delivery

bebebel is a service available through the website that will organise all your baby essentials such as pushchair, nappies and powdered milk, and deliver them to your holiday home in time for your arrival!

Homes that have it all!

Within the Holiday Lettings Baby & Toddler Friendly Holiday Idea there are some home owners that literally pull out all the stops to accommodate the every need of holidaymakers travelling with young children. Here’s just a few:

Villa Camellia, Corfu

From £300 per week, sleeping six (£50 per person per week)
This two bedroom villa has a private pool and outdoor play area. The owner’s provide an extensive list of amenities and child specific facilities including a welcome basket of groceries, a wide range of toys, water inflatable’s and arm bands, a steriliser, sun house, children’s kitchen utensils, night light and much more.

La Mirabelle, Angles, Les Tranche Sur Mer, France

From £795 per week, sleeping 15 (£53 per person per week)

This five bedroom property sleeps 13 and was made for families! As well as a heated pool and plush furnishings the house specifically caters to families with children, offering an entire TV/play-room stuffed with toys, board games, dressing up clothes, train sets, building blocks, dolls house and a huge library of children’s videos and DVDs as well as an extensive library of children's books, with ones specially for bedtime. Within the price the owners also supply a sterilizer, bottle warmer, food blender, a travel cot, black-out blinds for the children’s bedrooms, changing mat, baby bath, high chair, push chair and children's crockery and cutlery.

Holiday Lettings Ultimate Baby & Toddler Packing Checklist:

- Night light

- Beakers and bottles

- Sun screen / sun hat

- iPod and docking station for lullaby time

- Camcorder / camera to capture all those special memories

- Arm bands and swimwear

- Soother and/or comfort blanket

- Collapsible pushchair

- A few books and toys

- Sterilizer tablets

Consult the home owner for full details of what equipment is provided so you know what to pack and what you can leave at home as each home is individually furnished by the home owner.

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