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drive or fly for holidays?

mattandloramattandlora member
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Our baby will be 6,5 months old at Christmas. We have him, 2 Labrador retrievers, and a 14-16hr drive for the holidays (depending on weather and traffic). If we drive, we have to bring our luggage, plus baby gear, dog stuff, and gifts. If we fly, we have to board the dogs and still deal with carting luggage, baby gear, and gifts on the flight. Our LO is pretty good in the car, but we've never done anything longer than a 3-4hr drive with him. We'd split the 14-16hrs into 2 days. We have 8 days off total. We can always ship gifts to our destination, but that doesn't solve bringing them back.

What would you do? I'm pretty sure this is a lose-lose situation and it will suck either way.

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Current Age 35, DH 33

Married 9/2011

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Re: drive or fly for holidays?

  • =Lee=B=Lee=B member

    Is it at all possible to get a dog sitter?  I know they are likely as much family as your baby is...but...well it would make things all the easier!!

    I think aside from that I would drive.  Without the dogs I would totally say fly but with dogs in the mix I would drive.  Make it so you can sit in the back with baby...it helps make the drive sooooo much easier!  As for gifts.  Either ship them back or have people buy stuff that is easier to pack.  We do Christmas 20hrs away...we sly we always manage to get the gifts pack in our luggage as people think ahead and know you have to get it back.

    Though when we got married 20hrs away our good friends flew down...and they flew with a large blender they bought us.  Then we flew it back home with us hahahaa...when they got there they handed it to us and were like, so we totally didn't think this through and should have just left it at your house back home. heehee

     

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  • msktn95msktn95 member
    If you plan to take the dogs, you should drive. We have a 10 hour drive. We might fly depending on ticket prices.
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  • SLGILL1978SLGILL1978 member
    I have done both. Neither did I have a bad experience. I will be flying with my 9 month old in a couple weeks for Thanksgiving. If you decide to fly, I would recommend wearing your baby. When we drove we just made sure one of us sat in the the back with baby so she wasn't alone.
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  • cMichelle0423cMichelle0423 member
    We made a 17 hour trip (which turned into a lot longer) with my son when he was about 4 month. He did surprisingly well but we stopped at lot just to get him out of his car seat and let him stretch his legs. We probably stopped once every 3-5 hours. It really wasn't that bad.
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