Welcome to the 5th edition of Trips with Kids: inspiration and tips for international parents, to have more authentic trips with their kids.

In this week's email:

• 🌟 Tips — Multi-Gen Trips 👴👱‍♂️👶
• 🌎 Destination — 10 Things To Do in Mexico City with Kids 🇲🇽
• 🤿 Deep Dive — Family Travel Trends 📈
• 🧭 Discoveries — Travel tech & things

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🌟 Tips: Multi-Generational Travel for International Families 👴👱‍♂️👶

Multi-generational travel is a way to bridge that distance and create special moments together. It's about spending quality time with grandparents, and creating lasting memories for your whole family. 👴👱‍♂️👶

Done well, it could well be something you'll remember for the rest of your lives. 💗

We've been on a few multi-generational trips, and hope to do a lot more! We're still figuring it out, but here are some practical tips on what has worked (and what hasn't):

🧭 Discoveries

Travel tech & things to enhance trips with kids.

• ✈️ Rendezvous: enter two home cities and get destinations to meet (roughly) half way.
• 🌴 Outsite: beautiful places to stay, designed for remote workers.
• 🍫 These two foods can help reduce jet lag according to Qantas.

🇲🇽 Destination: 10 Things to Do in Mexico City with Kids

Our last post about Mexico City was our least-clicked ever. 😭

So for Part 2 we decided to make an Instagram Reel instead. It's the most popular thing we've posted in Insta so far, with almost 2000 views and 50 likes! 😃

🤿 Deep Dive: 2023 Family Travel Trends 📈

We came across this great post by Petit Passeport: 7 Trends Defining Family Travel in 2023. Here's our summary:

1. 👴🏻 Multi-Generational Travel: spending quality time and creating memories with grandparents. (we wrote our post before we knew it was a trend! Multi-Generational Travel for International Families).
2. 🧗‍♂️ Remote & Adventure Travel: venturing to remote destinations for unique / bucket list trips. Also: escape crowds.
3. 🐢 Slow Travel: exploring fewer destinations more deeply, staying longer in one place, immersing in the culture, connecting with locals. (dreaming of a month in Greece right now!)
4. 🛕 Culture & Education: exploring iconic cities, historical sites, museums, and incorporating personal interests into trips.
5. 🤩 Entertainment-Inspired Travel: movies and TV shows now serve as a top sources of travel inspiration for families. (we want to go to Sicily after watching The White Lotus)
6. 🚙 Nearcation: exploring local destinations close to home while saving on travel costs. (we plan on doing this this Summer)
7. 🗓 Booking in Advance: planning trips and booking well in advance to secure spots at popular destinations. (wish we did this more, we're very spontaneous)

🤫 Last Word

Olli is still far from satisfied with our Instagram efforts. 😅

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