Family travel tips and advice

Family travel news: If your family is made of 2 Adults plus children below the age of 12, which is the cut of point normally for child discounts, then here are a few travel tips to help you save £££’s..

Let us help you avoid those under occupancy charges, that tend to affect more family holidays then any other.

With that in mind, lets look at the hypothetical typical family 2 Adults 2 Children under 12.

A free child place sc holiday to Say Majorca in August for a week Costs £989, however if you count the children as adults the same holiday would be £789 that’s £200 cheaper..

Family saver tips:

• When booking self catering holidays, get two quotes one with children counted and one without you will be surprised how much you can save.
• Most hotel rooms sleep just 3 so in a large family you end up with 2 rooms, again count the children as adults.
• The ideal package for family is book all inclusive or an apart hotel if you want meals as these will have 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom apartments.

Very often its cheaper for a family to book the accommodation and flights separately, as opposed to a package deal..

If you book the accommodation you pay for the apartment and not per person, so if a 1 Bed apartment in say Tenerife costs £150 for the week that’s is you pay plus flights.

Finally: Lets explode the Free child place place myth, yes you can get them if you book early very early, rarely do you get 2 free child places, plus the free child place tends to mean you pay more for the apartment or hotel booking.

With extra charges for under occupancy. Sort of robbing Peter to pay Paul.