Tips please! Travelling long haul with a 2 year old
Travelling to Canada in July for a 3 week holiday to visit family (10’ish hour flight) plus a connecting flight (40 mins), will be my son’s first long haul flight… we’ve done 1 to Greece last year which he was surprisingly fine with apart from getting a vomiting bug after 🫣
Going out is a daytime flight around 2pm and the return flight is overnight.
Does anyone have experience doing a similar journey with a 2yo? Any top tips? Toys/ book/ entertainment recommendations? Anything at all to keep him entertained 😬.
Thanks!
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I’ve done seven long haul flights with my LO - my top tip is to just think in terms of each 10 minutes. So have several things to play with and rotate them (not just toys - paper cups, plastic bottles, spoons etc.). If you only worry about the next 10 minutes then you aren’t focusing on how to keep them occupied for a whole flight. Also it means that naps use up lots of 10 minutes which is always very enjoyable. Don’t expect to get to watch a film though 😫
Not that I've done this, but have friends who wrap little toys as presents for the trip which they highly recommend. Can be a few little things where they open one before and one or two during the flight. Presenting them as presents makes it a bit more exciting and they tend to be interested in it for a bit longer. Can be anything like a little book, toys, colouring book/crayons etc. Other than that, plenty of snacks 😁