Travel experience

Family Vacations

Paced for the youngest and oldest traveler at once.

Written for parents planning around nap schedules and teenagers simultaneously

A family trip has to work for a four-year-old, a fourteen-year-old and two adults who would quite like one meal in peace. Most itineraries are built for one of those three and hope the others cope.

Where this usually goes wrong

Room configuration is the real constraint
Many hotels cap occupancy at three, which quietly rules out a lot of options for a family of five.
Kids' clubs vary wildly
Age ranges, hours and whether they run daily are rarely clear until you arrive.
Travel days are the hard part
Long connections with young children turn an eight-hour journey into a fourteen-hour one.
Teenagers need something to do
The resort that delights a six-year-old can be a very long week for a sixteen-year-old.

What Shanair does about it

Rooms that actually fit
Connecting rooms, suites, or properties with genuine family configurations.
Realistic travel days
Routing that accounts for the age of everyone travelling.
Something for every age
Properties chosen so the youngest and oldest both have a reason to be there.
Documents for minors
What each child needs to travel, including the rules that catch families out.