Win an Adorable Trunki with Holiday Extras

Holiday Extras , the UK’s market leader in travel add-ons, is offering one lucky reader the chance to win an adorable Tipu-the-Tiger Trunki. Designed to beat the boredom of travelling tots, Trunki is an exciting ride-on suitcase that will keep your child entertained at the airport and help to make your journey as smooth as possible. As many parents know, the joy of travelling with children can come with a challenge or two along the way! Holiday Extras specialises in helping to make travel easy - with a huge choice of UK airport hotels, holiday parking, airport lounges, destination car hire and travel insurance. Whether you are heading to the slopes for a fun-filled holiday or the beach for a spot of winter sun, Holiday Extras can help to take the hassle out of travel. a Rafflecopter giveaway ...

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Stress Free Family travel with #BlueyByKLM + Giveaway

Travelling can be stressful at the best of times and when you have children in tow things can quickly go downhill if you are not prepared but there are a few simple things you can do to ease the stress and help make sure your holiday is full of laughter rather than tears. As you may remember last year we were lucky enough to travel with KLM from our local airport Cardiff International to Schiphol as part of their #KLMFlyLocal campaign which encourages families to travel from smaller local hubs such as Bristol, Norwich, Leeds (to name a few) - thus cutting out the added stress of carting small children through larger airports such as London and Manchester as well as cutting down your travel time. I know for us personally we found the whole experience incredibly positive and something we would highly recommend as it meant no rushing as we were at the airport in less than half an hour and the whole process from checking in to boarding the plane was easy and stress-free. ......

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Packing for a train trip to France

Mr A and I enjoying our trip back from Brussels earlier this year Well what an exciting month this is turning out to be - it's a double whammy on the birthday front as I turn 30 and the little man turns 4 and to celebrate the big Three Zero we are heading to France. First we will be staying in Paris for 2 short nights before heading down on the TGV to the South of France, where my Mother and Brother will be joining us in our celebrations at a stunning Villa from James Villas . Being on the road it exactly how I want to spend my 30th and couldn't think of anything better especially since I lived in Nice for 6 months before having Mr A it's going to be wonderful to go back and show both John and the little man around as well as explore Provence, hill side towns and the rest of the French coast. This trip however is going to involved the longest day of travel we have taken with the little man as on our return we leaving in the 8am morning to do a 5 hour high spe......

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