life hacks for holidays with children in Egypt or Turkey
We traveled from March 21.2018 for 7 days as a family at the Jaz Aquamarine Resort 5 * (Egypt, Hurghada). The weather was wonderfully warm, one day it was windy, it was not possible to swim in the sea that day. Travel agent recommended 3 hotels for families. But I am incredulous, I reviewed all the hotels in Egypt in order to accurately choose the most worthy hotel for a vacation. The hotel impressed and turned out to be even more beautiful than in the photo and video. I liked it, and now I'm giving advice.
Life hacks for holidays with children at the sea
Find out about the blender in advance, refuse to eat hard vegetables
In advance, the opening hours of the kids club, it is better if the kids club and disco are not in a closed space, as sick children come here too.
To know in advance what language is spoken in the kids club, they can only use German or English, then your child is unlikely to want to come again.
Find out in advance about the availability of the playground (it was very useful for us).
In advance, discuss with your husband what is most important for everyone - an evening program, a pool or a beach. Since the husband may refuse to go to the beach, it is better to plan in advance how you will change with the children when you are all together.
Prepare phrases in English in advance, take a phrase book. I really regretted that I didn’t prepare)).
I advise you to take it
1. Take a pillow under your head and a blindfold
2. Ask for the first row on the plane
3. Take water, change of clothes, diapers, tissues
4. Take domrid, damrina pills for motion sickness, nasal drops
5. Take labyrinth books, stickers, peepers, a tablet with games and cartoons, 6 pcs pencils, a sharpener, a coloring book
6. Take in your hand luggage sunglasses, children's sunscreen (burn and allergies often), swimwear, flip flops, T-shirts, shorts to change in the toilet upon arrival at the hotel, for example, in the morning, if your check-in is still waiting 3-4 hours, you can put things in package and leave at the reception and go to the beach.
7. Do not rush to be the first to enter and exit the plane, you will still need to wait for everyone. And waiting for children is so tiring.
8. Take a walking stick with you (you can rent it from 80 UAH), it is indispensable at the airport. Without her, we would have suffered greatly. Remove the hood first. They broke it off for us ((. It is desirable that the basket be in it.
9. Take 2 caps, 2 swimming trunks, 2 swimsuits, buy Bunz sunglasses for the child
10. Take a breast pump if the child is at Guards, wear comfortable clothes for feeding on the plane
11. Take a bib to feed your baby up to 2 years old.
12. Take a bowl and a spoon (if you get sick, you can take food from the restaurant with you).
13. Take small sports bottles with a neck for water to drink first on the plane (you can) and carry around the hotel (since the water is not on every corner and is very cold).
14. Take toys for the beach (we ended up needing a few): a bucket, a spatula, an inflatable ball, figurines of dinosaurs or animals (dolls).
15. Take armlets (without them, small children are forbidden even in the children's pool), you can use a children's inflatable ring.
16. Take a first aid kit, 90% of children who are at sea for the first time: rotavirus, colds and herpes. So we take medicines (to the extreme pharmacy, suitable for the whole family:
From the common cold: nazivin, hyumer, nozzle suction otrivin (for baby), sinupret (pills)
For throat and cough: smoktalki, furatsilin (for washing the throat)
From temperature: ibuprofen, paracetamol, electronic thermometer
For vomiting and diarrhea: domrid, nifuraxazid, humana electrolyte, smecta, black charcoal, flemoxin solutab 250 mg (antibiotics just in case)
For headaches: Citramon
From mosquito bites: healing cream
For herpes: anaferon for children, herpevir cream, herpevir tablets
For wounds: plaster, bandage, hydrogen peroxide in plastic
For constipation: glycerin suppositories
I advise on 1 day of rest
Ask for 1st floor room close to kids club, restaurant
On the first day, it's better to take a map, look around the whole territory, understand where-what and go everywhere. On the last day, we discovered a special area for children in the restaurant, there were few people there, and there was a separate buffet for children. So it was possible to feed the children faster. There were also cartoons and a children's corner. And if you knew from the first day it would be much easier.
Buy internet cards in the hotel store, insert them instead of your SIM cards, and communicate via Viber during your vacation.
I also recommend
1. Close the balcony at night, lizards can climb in, mosquitoes fly in.
2. Introduce a quiet hour from 13 to 15, let it be cartoons, but in the room.
3. The first to feed the children in the restaurant, then dad leaves with the children, mom eats calmly.
4. Do not take excursions in advance, it’s better from today to tomorrow, if you feel good, you know the weather, then go ahead so that you don’t have to cancel trips later.
Wash your hands before eating, do not skip anything, otherwise you can get some kind of ori or coxsackie disease.
5. The optimal mode is to come to breakfast at 8, lunch 12.30-13, dinner 18-18.30. There are queues to the restaurant, especially in the evenings, who pull up later. If you, for example, had a late breakfast, came to the beach, then you will look for a sun lounger for a long time.