Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children [Paperback]

Shelly Rivoli (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Travels with Baby is an indispensable guide for parents wandering the world with kids, from infants to preschoolers. Its comprehensive advice on useful gear and different modes of transportation (car, taxi, train, plane, ship) will smooth the way on any trip, and I especially liked the insightful advice on matching your travel plans to your child's individual temperament. --Cynthia Harriman, author of Take Your Kids to Europe

...what differentiates Rivoli's book are the extra details, like comparison charts of different airlines and cruise lines. --Oakland Tribune

This guide is chock full of useful tips for traveling with babies and toddlers, what gear to bring (including specifics about car seats and a travel kit for carry-on), childproofing your accommodations, healthy travels, managing baggage on trains, and more. --Travel for Kids

From the Publisher

Winner of the NAPPA Gold Award for Parenting Resources from the National Parenting Publications Awards

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Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Travels with Baby Books; 1st edition (September 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615159257
• ISBN-13: 978-0615159256
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #44 in Books > Travel > Specialty Travel > Family Travel
  • #76 in Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Guidebooks

More About the Author

Shelly Rivoli has changed diapers on four continents and a handful of islands - and she's not done yet. Together, her family has made its way by airplane, elephant, subway, train, cruise ship, taxi, and long tail boat.

After traveling to Thailand, Tunisia, Manhattan, Yosemite, Paris, Chichen Itza, Hawaii, and Pompeii with children under five, Shelly has grown quite familiar with the technical details of traveling--and sightseeing--with babies, toddlers, and young children. She offers practical planning advice and insights in her two guides: the award-winning "Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children" and her new pocket-size companion guide "Take-Along Travels with Baby: Hundreds of Tips to Help During Travel with Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler" (December 2010).

Shelly's family travel tips and advice have appeared in American Baby, Nick Jr. Magazine, Parenting, Parents, and Pregnancy magazines, in the Boston Globe and LA Times, and on popular parenting websites and blogs including, BabyCenter.com, Babble.com, Urban Baby Daily, aParentlySpeaking, and TimeOut New York Kids. She has also made radio and TV appearances on the topic of travel with young children.

She travels as often and as far as she can with her husband and three young children. The rest of the time, she hangs her hats as mother and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at www.travelswithbaby.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for everyone traveling with a baby or a small clhild, October 23, 2007

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rincewind (Ca USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children (Paperback)

This is a must have book for everyone that has a baby or a toddler and intends to travel with it. It is full of extremely helpful information that will make your journey easier and cheaper. I have a 5 year old and we have been traveling with her a lot abroad during the last 3 years and I deeply regret that this book was not available at those travels to ease my trip planning and organizing. It will definitely reduce the expenses for my next trip substantially - with the information on rail tickets in Europe and the cruise lines. Not to mention all the helpful hints in all the nesessary things to pack for your child, which you alway forget to.
The book is also very easy to read with lots of humor and nice photos.
I aintend to give it to some of my friends as a present too.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rick Steves for the stroller set!, October 16, 2007

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Virginia "fitness fanatic" (El Cerrito, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children (Paperback)

A great resource for families who love to travel-- whether it is to the next town over or across the globe. The author has great checklists, comparison charts, travel tips, ideas for gear & helpful websites. She throws in funny & touching stories (& pictures!) of her own family's travel adventures.

I work with new moms & read MANY of the baby books-- this one is DEFINITELY a keeper! It answers pretty much every question a traveling family might have (or points you in the direction of someone who can).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly helpful.... and I don't really like to travel, January 24, 2008

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Kangham "cautiously enthusiastic traveler" (Western U.S.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children (Paperback)

I was given this book as a gift. I didn't think I would get much out of it because frankly, I'm a bit of a homebody--didn't love to travel before kids and certainly don't love it more now that I have two.

But we do *have* to travel several times a year to see family and "Travels With Baby", because it is so thorough, has helped make a few recent trips run more smoothly. The author is so enthusiastic and understanding of the nitty gritty of little kids' routines--I feel like I can leave home now and not get the kids too messed up from their all-important routines.

This book has actually made me excited to go to a kid-friendly resort some time in the near future. Rivoli covers the details--vaccinations, passports, etc., in such detail that there is no guess work for me. I really appreciate that.