i think it's very weird when people bring a nanny on vacation with them.

Miss.Modular · January 2010

is it that hard to spend ANY time with your kid, even on a vacation?

nbjenni · January 2010

What about when your kid goes to sleep at 7:30 and you'd like to go eat dinner or have a few drinks? You may want to stay in your hotel room, but I sure won't be.

violetvirgo · January 2010

i bring my nanny or mom or MIL and hang out with my kid all day, but as soon as she goes to bed dh and i can go out to dinner, drinks, shows, enjoy whatever city we're in.

of course we don't take someone with us on EVERY vacation.

carolinaem · January 2010

I would LOVE to have a nanny on vacation. We take our vacation with another family and having to go out to dinner early and stay home every night after 7 can get a little dull. Having a nanny would mean we could all go out sans children for a night.

Parks2Be · January 2010

HELL! I would love a vacation!! Let alone a nanny to go with me!

punkfiction_v.3 · January 2010

thats the only way we'd take a cruise with kids.

Aprilsies · January 2010

Wow....how much does something like that cost anyways???

If I want alone time for vaca I would make a trip specially for that....I guess. But some people enjoy the best of both worlds!

MPSW · January 2010

We have a place at the shore, and our au pair came with us a few times this summer. We play with DD all day, but it's great when someone can take her back to the house for naptime or stay with her after she's asleep at night. It's a pretty sweet deal for the au pair too -- getting paid to go to the beach and work about 4/hrs a day? Sign me up.

alicatt79 · January 2010

lol. We're friends with a couple who have an au pair that lives with them. They both work 8-5 jobs. I don't understand it at all. She just hangs out at the house when they get home from work and on the weekends.

megontoast · January 2010

My brother used to babysit for some rich family. They took him to San Francisco once and paid him some ridiculous amount of money. Plus he got to go on a free trip to San Fran!!! I was jealous.

punkfiction_v.3 · January 2010

Aprilsies:
Wow....how much does something like that cost anyways???
If I want alone time for vaca I would make a trip specially for that....I guess. But some people enjoy the best of both worlds!

it depends. you can do it 2 ways - 1. you say "hey its a vacation. you'll get x-hours a day to yourself and we'll give you x-amount of spending money" or 2. she gets paid like she normally does and is on call the whole time. so its not as "vacation" for her.

Shaina · January 2010

We are agoing to Florida next week for 10 days and are bringing our nanny. Brought her last year. I still feel like I spend plenty of time with my girls PLUS we get to go out at night and have a built-in babysitter. My girls enjoy the day at the pool/beach/playground with all of us and go to bed normal time and then we go out at night.

lbaby08 · January 2010

When I was a nanny I used to travel with the family quite a bit. It let the parents spend time away after the kids had gone to bed or occasionally during the day. I was mainly there for crowd control at the pool, beach, etc. The parents spent a ton of time with their kids.

ETA: I made my normal hourly rate (8 hours per day) plus had everything paid for and some spending money. It was a sweet deal esp, since I didn't work anywhere near 8 hours per day. I was with the family for 3 years so we had our routine down pretty good.

thomas&lynn · January 2010

I admit we have talked (at length) about bringing either MIL or our babysitter with us on any vacation we may take in the next 2-3 yrs.

JARbaby · January 2010

It is awesome. When I was a nanny I got free trips all over, had my days free except when the kids went to nap and in the evening. Most evenings we all went out to dinner and some nights I had free to myself AND I got paid. But the parents had a little extra freedom when the kids went to bed. They had 3 and they all wanted to do different things. It also allowed each kid to do what they wanted with an adult.

I take one when we go or my Mom so we can go out at night.

fall-love · January 2010

alicatt79:
lol. We're friends with a couple who have an au pair that lives with them. They both work 8-5 jobs. I don't understand it at all. She just hangs out at the house when they get home from work and on the weekends.

When I was growing up we had an au pair from Germany... she was like a member of the family... she got room and board, use of the cars, and a year in the US, plus some salary, came on family vacations with us; and we had a built-in babysitter who was like an older sister. My mom was SAH at that time, too... but with 3 kids in soccer, dance class, etc.etc.etc. it was nice to have a second person to run us around to where we needed to be.

the_mulva · January 2010

A nanny or babysitter to go on vaca w/ you is awesome. You're a dipsh*t if you don't get that.

MegGary · January 2010

My friend used to be a nanny. When the one family she nannied for went to Ireland for a wedding she got to go. She only had to spend 3 days with them to help out with the kids. She called me & said I'm going in 2 months want to come? I've got 5 days after that free to do whatever I want in Ireland. I booked my flight & went with. It ended up being awesome. We watched the kids for the wedding & the next day brunch. They paid for my stay & food because I helped with the kids so much. Than we took a train to Dublin. Spent 5 days there.

If you have a function like that I can see it. If you can afford it why not? I'd rather do that than pay for a nanny at the place I'm staying. I don't know them. I know my nanny.

MissModularHome · January 2010

We need a nanny to deal with kids on a plane. We are planning an India trip and I can't imagine taking 3 on a plane w/o help. DFS can't come with us outside the country, so he'll stay home with Grandma.

babypuplove · January 2010

I don't find it weird at all. DH and I had talked about going to the Caribbean (before getting pregnant with #2; now it's on hold). We were thinking about bringing DD with us to a place that had reputable, built-in nannies. That way we could have her with us part of the time (family vacation time), but still relax a little and unwind sans baby (or with her close by so we could see her with the nanny, but at least we could relax). I'm a SAHM. It would be necessary.

Mrs.V · January 2010

We do it bc there are times when we want some alone time. Like in the evenings when DS is in bed at 7pm, we can go for dinner, etc. And when there are activities that we want to do that a baby can't do (like a snorkeling trip). We still spend the majority of our time with DS for sure but when he's napping for 2 he's or in bed for the night, it's nice to not be tied to the room!

murphyec · January 2010

You have a skewed, unrealistic view of nannies. My sister runs in circles that have live in au pairs and not ONE of them ever has the nanny watch the children anymore than a DCP would. They are nice to have on vacation so the parents can have extra help with the kids (especially if there is more than one), not to mention what has been said above. Dinners after the kids go to bed, activities during nap time, etc.

Mjmksb04 · January 2010

Oh please. If I could afford to do something like that, I would consider it. It would be awesome to have someone there to watch DS so we could go to dinner at night, or put him down for his naps, etc.

jillybean222 · January 2010

maybe for while they are napping/sleeping for the night??? not sure. I probably wouldn't do it, but i WOULD bring a set of grandparents...they pay for themselves and can babysit when the kiddos are in bed!

i thought the same thing about the kid's programs on cruises/at resorts....why not do all the fun stuff available with your kids rather than lettign the staff do it for you...kind of weird. just my opinion.

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