Are kids the best travellers

[markis10]

Article on the naked traveller section at news.com.au caught my eye, and I like it!

My favourite quotes:

Dad: “The food and drink is a rip-off.”
Three year-old: “There’s a friendly lady - and a man who acts like a lady - who has a big box on wheels full of cola and sweets and she gives them to everyone who wants them.”

Dad: “Why can I never get a sunbed?”
Three year-old: “The oily people who smell of coconut are always sleeping by the big bath.”


Dad: “That was how much? I dread to see my statement when I get back.”
Three year-old: “My Daddy is brilliant. He just shows them his special plastic card and they give us all the food and drink we want.”

Read more: The Naked Traveller: Why three-year-olds travel better than you | News.com.au


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[harvyk]

Some of those are slightly amusing...

I do like

Dad: “The food and drink is a rip-off.”
Three year-old: “There’s a friendly lady - and a man who acts like a lady - who has a big box on wheels full of cola and sweets and she gives them to everyone who wants them.”

Of course once upon a time, that cart was free regardless of your choice of airline (and still is depending on your choice of airline)...


Slightly OT I do have to say I take a grain of salt with the advice which the Naked Traveller gives out... Whilst he is obviously well travelled, some of the advice he gives seems a little strange, every so often he either recommends against things which I see no harm in doing (albeit keeping situational awareness) or recommends doing something which I think is probably a bad idea as it scream's "I'm a tourist".

Of course each to their own.

 

[Ewing]

Well, to this day I have never seen a child pull a DYKWIA.

Seen plenty of adults do it though

 

[ozbeachbabe]

They're extremely good with Next Gen checkin procedures are aren't daunted by the prospect of automation. They listen to PA announcements - basically parents would be lost without them at an airport.

I remember seeing 3 unaccompanied minors on a flight DRW/GOV/CNS that had a minor technical issue which require pax to deboard & go back into the terminal. The staff were about to call the whomever was to collect them at the other end to tell them about the delay but all of the kids were already on their mobiles & more or less said "thanks for the offer but it's under control". :shock: :shock:

 

[Princess Fiona]

Child number 3 asked last year just prior to our family trip to ZQN " Will there be servants on the plane serving us food, I do so like the servants "
Child number 4 asked at the JQ check in at AKL Domestic " Excuse me where is the First Class Lounge ?"
She seemed perfectly happy once we got to the JQ one as it had all her necessities of nibbles and OJ

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Child number 3 asked last year just prior to our family trip to ZQN " Will there be servants on the plane serving us food, I do so like the servants "

Child number 4 asked at the JQ check in at AKL Domestic " Excuse me where is the First Class Lounge ?" She seemed perfectly happy once we got to the JQ one as it had all her necessities of nibbles and OJ

Did you tell her yes, but the servants will need some pocket money first? :shock:

I guess that's one question JQ check in hasn't been asked before! Taken the kids on one too many JASA's Princess Fi?

 

[suey]

when travelling to NZ on JQ earlier this year my far too travelled 8 yr old said "what?!?! you have to buy food on jetstar?!? oh that sucks, they don't do that on qantas *rolls his eyes*"

He also calls whY "skan_y class" and rates his only J flight as one of the best experiences of his life and tells me that when he is older he only wants to fly in F hahaha

He also asked his teacher if she was going in J on her holiday and how many FF points she had and is she a gold FF cos then you get to go in the lounge for free tee hee

Oh and he was more excited than anyone I've told that I am now a WP and the first thing he asked was "does that mean we get to go in the first class lounge now? OMG I can't wait for that!!!" Why he is so excited about it I have no idea, my 6yr old was very meh...

 

[Pvcmenace]

My nearly 4 year old Jnr Pvc walks up to Mrs Pvc and upon putting her face up against her leg in a hug, announces your pants smell like Qantas

 

[nickykim]

My daughter who is now 18 has always been a fabulous traveller - first flight at 3 days old back from Cairns to Aurukun in a light aircraft and in the next two years many flights around Cape York, none of which she remembers. She fell asleep as soon as the engine started and woke up when we landed.

She wasn't so good on her first commercial flight Cairns to Auckland which left at some ungodly hour like 1 am. She was about 2 and stayed awake the whole flight and all the next day. Great for her but I was wrecked.

When I split from her dad, he moved to Brisbane and I moved to Melbourne so she was flying to and fro four times a year and was a very confident passenger. She couldn't wait to turn 13(?) so she didn't have to travel as an UM. At about that age she decided to see if she could go overseas every year - so 14 = France (with me), 15 = Vietnam (school trip), 16 = France (school trip), 17 = New York (with me), 18 = Germany (now, gap year au pairing). That isn't counting trips to NZ to visit family!

In late 2008 she flew to Vietnam (school trip) in late October and back in early December, one day at home and off to Brisbane until early January 2009, back to Melbourne for a week then off to Auckland for three weeks, back to Melbourne for two days, then off to Brisbane for an overnight (her grandfather died ). Hmm I wish I had her life, I guess I have to keep working to pay the airfares!

She is a better (less stressed) traveller than me!

 

[ozmille]

Not the 2 on my flight from BKK this weekend. Screaming and crying for most of the flight whilst the mother pretended to be asleep (or might have passed out as my seat companion said the kids had been screaming since London)