With some careful planning and support from our London airport taxi company, smiley faces can indeed be expected. Kids and airports – and travel in general! – often don’t mix. But we’re experts with kids of our own, so we asked our long-suffering employees/parents to come up with a list of essential kit items and great time savers. Travelling from Gatwick to Tokyo, Heathrow to Adelaide, or just Heathrow to Gatwick, here are our top tips!
• Plan transfers well in advance. Book a Gatwick airport taxi, a tuk-tuk to the family hostel or whatever transport you’ll need to get your brood fully from A to B. It sounds a bit simplistic, but knowing the enemy is half the battle!
• Give the kids their own bags full of distractions. Books, colouring pencils, games consoles – don’t burden yourself with something they can carry themselves. Our teams found kids loved the independence!
• Minimise what you’re carrying. The bane of parents on long journeys is often having to carry eighty-five different toys, sweaters, drinks, passports and balloons at once! Try to make each family member responsible for their own items.
• Avoid sitting around for long periods of time (unless they’re asleep!) Airports are great places to learn, so go plane spotting, study other cultures and play the biggest game of Eye Spy, ever!
Travelling with kids is about calm, motivation and organisation. Let us sort out your taxi to Gatwick airport, leaving you to police the little monsters without airport transfer stress!