A Candid Conversation on What Family Travel Means This Summer

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🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Being a parent right now is hard. Many are juggling work, childcare, education, their families' health and safety, and so much more. And while a trip to the beach with the kids—or better yet, a child-free getaway—would usually bring peace of mind and a modicum of relaxation, vacation planning these days comes with new levels of stress and confusion.

As neither of us are parents, we brought on Lauren DeCarlo, Condé Nast Traveler's director of strategic projects and mom of a four year old, to guest host this episode and suss out at least a few of the answers. She's joined by Monet Hambrick, of The Traveling Child and mom of two, and Liz Speichinger, senior global sales director for Auberge Resorts and mom of an eight year old boy, to get a handle on how they're traveling this summer, what questions they're asking ahead of trips, and how—with not a minute to spare each day—they're finding time for themselves.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Meredith Carey and you're listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from
0:04.0	Connie Nass Traveler. This week's episode is all about what family travel and more specifically
0:08.9	traveling with kids looks like this summer. As neither Lale or I have kids of our own, we're passing
0:14.9	the mic to our women who travel colleague and Supermom, Lauren DeCarlo, to chat with two amazing women
0:19.8	about what travel plans they have
0:21.4	in store.
0:22.4	Lolly and I will be back next week, but for now we'll let Lauren take it away.
0:26.4	Hey!
0:28.4	Hi everyone, I'm Lauren DeCarlo, Director of Strategic Projects at Konday Nash Traveler and
0:35.8	mother to my four-year-old son.
0:38.6	I am joined today by Monet Hambrick of the Traveling Child blog,
0:43.3	which chronicles Monet's travels around the world with her two daughters and husband,
0:48.0	and Liz Spikinger, a travel industry veteran who currently serves as the Senior Global Sales
0:53.5	Director for Oberberg resorts and
0:55.9	single mom to her eight-year-old son. Today we're talking family travel. I want to just start right
1:02.2	off the back getting into summer travel if we could because I think we're all feeling a little
1:07.8	cabin fever from being stuck in our homes for the last three, four months.
1:13.1	Some of us longer, some of us shorter, depending on where you live.
1:16.9	And I'm wondering, first off, if you guys are traveling this summer.
1:22.6	It's Liz.
1:23.7	I'm laughing because I literally just left Terminal B at LaGuardia.
1:30.0	And so I put my eight-year-old in the amazing hands of Southwest Airlines and with a N-95 mask.
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