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Customer service lacking on European rail travel

Kayt Sukel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:06:06 +0000

This past Sunday, my 5-year-old son and I took the fast-service train from Paris to Germany. As the train stopped hard and short into our intended station, a service cart that should have been secured fell over on my child. The cart was heavy, full of breakfast service items. Child pinned against heavy cart It [...]

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Customer service lacking on European rail travel

Holiday kids clubs rant

Corinne McDermott — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:31:49 +0000

My husband and I were staying at a fairly posh resort in Mexico, and we noticed these kids at the beach. They were obviously brother and sister, and they looked miserable as they half-heartedly made sandcastles with the bored-looking teenaged kid’s club employee. Dumping the kids in a holiday club We saw them every day, [...]

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Holiday kids clubs rant

Flying with a pushchair rant

Kayt Sukel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:03:08 +0000

For families travelling with small children, nothing can be more daunting than having to negotiate an airport without your pushchair. You are already likely to be carrying a nappy bag, car seat and at least one carry-on bag. The idea of adding a screaming child to that full load might put you off travel for [...]

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Flying with a pushchair rant

Ten family travel tips for this summer

Darren Cronian — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:00:20 +0000

This is the first in a number of blog posts highlighting travel tips for consumers. I write very few family travel consumer related posts because I do not have kids, just a 13-year old nephew that I take on trips occasionally, so I can therefore only imagine how stressful it might be. Five family travel [...]

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Ten family travel tips for this summer

Frustrating British campsite rules for groups

Darren Cronian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:22:13 +0000

A number of British camp sites are not allowing groups of all males or all female campers primarily because the camp site owners are concerned about how these groups will behave. I can understand this; you only have to look at the headlines of last summer of Brits on tour abroad. Let’s not forget though [...]

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Frustrating British campsite rules for groups