I love going on holiday, but I hate getting ready for one now I have children. Before kids I was the type of person to pop a suitcase in on the bed in the spare room and my list net to it and over the week before the holiday add to it and then be all ready to go the day before. Now I find that just doesn’t work for me.
There are loads of reasons for this including the fact that we do not have a spare room for space for the suitcases, the boys to do have that many spare clothes and quite frankly either I would forget what I had packed or someone would take it. So now I leave it all until the night before we go and rely on having a great list and also completing my pre holiday do to list.
So I have got together with Blocss, who provide amazing waterproof covers for casts, which are perfect for broken arms and legs to share my pre holiday checklist and a fab giveaway (keep reading for that)!
Scan and email yourself important documents
My biggest tip is to make sure that you scan and email yourself any important documents, including passports, driving licences, insurance documents, travel documents, visas, bank information andflight details.
Pre Holiday To do List
I try and make sure that I keep up with the washing and ironing the week before any holiday and that the I buy anything we might need. But I have learned over the years that stressing about stuff doesn’t make it any easier. I also take responsibility for all the packing other than the husbeasts and the boys travel bags.
Click here to download your Pre Holiday To do List.
The one thing I haven’t included on the list is medication and a first aid kit. That would be as I have a whole post on a what to put in a travel first aid kit!
If your family needs prescription medication then make sure you have copies of prescriptions and enough medicine for the whole of your trip. The one thing missing from that list is the fabulous Bloccs cast covers. Bloccs are ingenious and invaluable in making any parents life easier when their child has broken a limb or has a dressing that can’t be allowed to get wet.
Teabags!
Sunglasses!
Has to be suntan lotion because I’m fair skinned & fry like a chip! 🙂 x
great idea of supplying a list of what we should take I always forget about electoplast plasters
earplugs!
Camera
Toothbrush.
Flip flops
suncream
Sunglasses
Plenty of sunblocks and suncreens. Also hats and sunglasses, have to protect from the sun x
Loperamide for the runs.
£1 shop toys, having something new always keeps my kids busy on long journeys
Awesome would love to win this, great giveaway, favourited you blog! Sunglasses ;
baby wipes 🙂
Phone! X
My inhaler, I would be in trouble without it !
I always bring neck pillows for the journey and all the waiting around 😉
I always carry a pack of wet wipes
Sunglasses
Sunglasses
Aftersun – my hubby never puts enough suncream on and always burns! x
My Sarong x many thanks
Several pairs of knickers which I carry in my hand luggage just in case.
clothes line
salad cream and tea bags, cannot manage without these!
My camera, I love taking lots of pictures!
Teabags
Flip Flops
Definitely my camera – anything else you forget to pack, you can buy when you get there!
A map of where I’m going and an itenerary; yes, I’m quite anal!
Swim nappies for our little boy, he is 18 months but he loves the water x
My phone charger- with a fully charged phone I can look up directions to anywhere or how to replace anything I’ve lost or forgotten. 🙂
I never forget to pack my digital camera : it’s essential!!
My Kindle so I can read whilst sunbathing.
an extension leads as hotel rooms never have enough sockets for all the phones and tablets.
Headphones
Earplugs
Suncream – both boys have had issues with reactions to creams so make sure I have ones I know I can trust
Mini hair straighteners
I think good quality loo rolls and wipes are a must.
Toothbrush!!!
A camera 🙂
A spare pair of sandals
Sun cream for everyone
Sun Cream!
Baby wipes x
The suntan lotion is the item I always pack – it’s the most essential item
baby wipes, i literally take two packs everywhere with me!
Sun cream
Flip flops! Number one essential for me!
My Kindle!
Toothbrush 🙂 I need my toothbrush, it’s not the sort of thing I can buy/beg/borrow/steal once there!
my phone charger!!
My daughters arm bands as she is forever in the pool 🙂
My little rucksack which folds into a tiny bag
suncream x
Wet wipes – they come in handy for every unexpected eventuality! x
my air straighteners
Suntan cream
Sunscreen
For me it has to be wet wipes always end up packing around two or three packs of them
My camera, I love taking holiday photos
A plug converter!
My prescription sunglasses x
It would have to be either my phone charger or the sun cream! Always top of my list
Sun cream
Phone charger
Camera!
my own pillow, cant sleep without it
My ipod, gets me through a lot of long journeys!
mosquito repellant
sun cream is a must for any holiday kit
my plug adapter
Suncream and aftersun
Phone charger!
camera
My Sony Xperia Tablet. I can’t live without the internet
my toothbrush
It has to be ear plugs
Plug adaptors, if I can remember where I’ve put them after the last holiday
Swimming costumes
Suncream and after sun
Sunglasses are a must!
Mosquito Spray , the little critters
A really good book
Sun cream is definitely one of the most important things that I pack!
My holiday essential has to be suncream and lots of it!
sunglasses 🙂
sunglasses
Sunglasses because mine have a prescription, I could buy almost anything else if I forgot it but not sunnies x
Antiseptic wipes is my must have item. I often wonder how my mother managed without wipes of any sort in her life.
Suncream
Sunscreen + aftersun!
I always make sure I have my address book so that I can contact people in case of an emergency!
Sunnies! 🙂
Sunblock for my lips as I’m forever burning them!
A good book 🙂 First-aid kit comes in handy too.
Suncream!!
Suncream
Suncream
Sunscreen