Tips for Better Family Travel | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep267 | 8-9-24
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We get asked a lot about how to travel as a family...or how to make family travel better. In today's episode of Frequent Miler on the Air, we'll talk about tips for family travel.
(01:11) - Everyone wants more family travel tips!
See our Ask Us Anything episode 68, "How do you travel with young kids?" here.
(03:31) - Free Spirit Travel More Mastercard
Learn more about the Free Spirit Travel More Mastercard here.
(12:46) - Don't forget that Qatar Avios can be used to book American Airlines flights, and can offer great prices for certain flights... Read more about OneWorld First Class flights for surprisingly low prices here.
(17:39) - See our "Points for family travel", Ep174 here.
(18:20) - Plan one big activity per day
(20:46) - Find a playground
(23:41) - Get a suite
(29:57) - Lounge access is awesome
(31:48) - Get elite status with National Rental Car and/or Hertz to save
(34:16) - Easily collapsible stroller
(36:58) - Car seats: If you're going to bring yours, get a bag for it
(38:46) - Know your lap infant ticket policies
(42:28) - Ask for a child meal
(43:21) - Consider taking a cruise Read our post on how to get free cruises here.
(45:40) - Consider business class. More space = less disruption.
(49:51) - Travel internationally: Be prepared for the world to be more family-friendly than you expect
(52:09) - How does the temporary Southwest credit card bonus impact the Southwest companion pass strategy for 2 companion passes?
Read our Southwest Airlines companion pass guide here. Read more about the two person strategy for 2 Southwest Companion Passes here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.6 | What crazy thing did? |
| 0:15.9 | City this week. |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.9 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.1 | The main event. |
| 0:22.4 | Frequent Milo on the air starts now. |
| 0:27.0 | Today's main event, tips for better family travel. |
| 0:31.3 | We get asked a lot about how to travel as a family, and today we're going to answer that |
| 0:36.6 | question, at least talk about how to |
| 0:38.6 | make travel with family better. Yeah, I mean, we'll see better or at least, you know, good. |
| 0:45.3 | Less terrible. Hopefully, not terrible, less terrible. I mean, people ask all the time, they're like, |
| 0:50.0 | why do you do it? How do you do it? And how do you make it enjoyable? So we're going to try to give you some tips today that'll hopefully help you out. And remember, if you want to come back and listen to a piece of it again, you say, oh, what was that tip about A, B, or C? Look to the show notes because we always have the timestamps in the show notes. So we'll have those laid out there so you can click directly to a specific thing that you want to come back to later on. And wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to give us a thumbs up, leave us a review, leave us some feedback. Tell us what you think. What are your best tips for family travel? We love to hear from you. All right. Greg, drag out this week's giant mail bag. All right. In today's giant mail, we have mail from YouTube. So once a month, the Freakomiler team does a live stream, Ask Us Anything, where we just get on and answer questions that viewers ask. And the most recent one, episode 68, we titled after the fact, How do you travel with young kids? Because someone asked |
| 1:46.2 | Nick about that during that live stream. And in response afterwards, after the video was published |
| 1:53.4 | and no longer live, we got this response. As a family traveler with three adults, I would love to know more tips for booking hotels |
| 2:03.3 | internationally, as many hotels don't allow more than two adults. |
| 2:07.3 | It's definitely a universal problem that Nick knows a lot about. |
| 2:11.1 | And then another one was Nick, more family travel content, please. |
| 2:15.2 | And another, more family travel tips from Nick, please. Oh, |
| 2:19.0 | and then there was Nick, more family traveling tips, please. Then more family travel tips, |
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