Long-haul flight travel tips for almost 5 year old girl and 16 month old boy

[kerry.finlay]

Travelling solo with the two kids to States next week.

Eeeeek.

We have the bulkheads so have some room, phew.

9.30hr to fill. Some/most sleeping hopefully.

We're pretty used to travelling on train around the UK on long trips but slightly different!

Any tips for little entertaining games/toys/treats would be warmly welcomed.

And any general long-haul with kids tips too.

thank you!

[Convex]

old thread here...

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1347132,1349664#msg-1349664

with some good advice on it.

5yo will be fine, i recommend lots of his fave show on an ipad and some noise cancelling headphones!

[etta166]

It will be fine. Your 5yo can watch/read/play games on a tablet or the on board system. 16 mo will probably need to get up and walk about a bit, but unless you have turbulance and seatbelts on all the way that should be fine.

The best advice we were given was to wrap up a number of small gifts (poundland toys etc) and given them out every couple of hours or so. Also, limiting sugar intake helps too.