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tripAbrood appoint a Chief Kids Officer after receiving hundreds of adorable applications

Family travel specialist tripAbrood has received hundreds of applications after advertising for the role of Chief Kids Officer, open to anyone aged 5 to 12 years old. Looking to gain a child’s eye view of the family holiday experience, tripAbrood set out to hire a budding travel photographer to document...

Make Halloween memorable this year with our 13 suggestions of spooktacular sites-to-see while staying at one of the group’s 578 UK hotels

With Halloween falling within the half term holidays and over a weekend this year, the UK’s first budget hotel group has released more than 25,000 rooms for the frightfully good price of £29 or less over the school break. With 578 hotels across the UK,...

Kids' dream role as official junior travel photographer is launched, with free holiday accommodation for a year

• Family travel specialist tripAbrood launches search for a Chief Kids Officer
• Successful applicant will be asked to provide a ‘child’s eye view’ of family holiday accommodation as a junior travel photographer
• The role is open to anyone aged 5 to
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The laws, dos and don’ts around children’s car seats

Written by Joel Kempson, Personal Finance Writer

With summer coming and the world starting to re-open, family trips are finally on the horizon. Squeezing all your luggage into the car and strapping in the kids ready for a getaway is always an exciting, albeit slightly stressful experience for parents. And it’s...

​My children have been travelling on long car journey's to visit their grandparents since they were tiny.

I am not going to say that every journey has been amazing. It hasn't. We have heard one or the other child asking "Are we nearly there yet?" a million times and have had to pull off the M25, find a side street to stop in and settle a screaming baby. We have also had to deal with being...

Rory Boland, Editor of Which? Travel, said:

“It’s fantastic that UK breaks can soon get under way, but holidaymakers should prepare themselves for higher prices this year because of increased demand, with our snapshot research finding that accommodation prices in popular seaside destinations have increased by a third compared with last summer. But we also found plenty of availability...

Gloucester and Tebay services have been named Britain’s best service stations, while Bridgwater in the south west of England has been ranked the worst, according to a new survey from Which?.

As UK holidaymakers prepare to hit the road this summer, the consumer champion has revealed the country’s best and worst service stations for a pitstop on the way to their destination.

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ESSENTIAL SAVINGS FOR ON-THE-GO FAMILIES WITH ALDI’S MAMIA BABY EVENT

Getting out and about has never been more important, with recent studies showing that levels of happiness were considerably higher for those who spent time outside than those who didn’t [1] . Aldi’s latest Baby Event has amazing savings to suit any family’s outdoor needs. The event’s popular range of baby...

According to the latest research by Hoo , the hotel room offer platform, the spring half-term is the most expensive school holiday to take a trip away while Easter ranks as the most affordable when looking at the cost on a per day basis.

Hoo looked at the cost of heading away to 10 major holiday destinations based on the price of return flights and accommodation, as well as how this...