Enter Kid & Coe (www.kidandcoe.com). Travel + Leisure describes it as "the new go-to site for jet-setting parents." If you're a jet-setting parent — or if you hope to be in the future — this is your watering hole.
Kid & Coe finds kid-friendly houses and apartments that are available to rent. These residences have kid stuff in them: toys, games, children's dinnerware, high chairs, toddler beds or bed rails, cribs...stuff like that.
Here are some reasons that one would want to go with a curated rental instead of a hotel room:
- There'd be more space in-between you and your child. This is especially practical when your child is sleeping and you're still wide awake reading (aka drinking wine and watching Girls on iTunes).
- Any extra bedrooms could be used for putting-up a grandma or a babysitter.
- Children are more easily tended to when you've got STUFF — stuff that wouldn't be worth hauling or renting — much of which you'd find in Kid & Coe's curated rentals. (The kid-related materials are listed in each rental's respective "amenities" section.).
The site also goes into detail (without being too verbose or chatty) about why each destination is a good place to take kids and what to do with your kids once you get there. For example, they consider Iceland to be "one of the most child-friendly countries in Europe"...one where your kids (and you!) can ride "hardy ponies," swim in the apparently famous Blue Lagoon, and go offshore puffin watching!
He's skipping. That Icelandic puffin is skipping.
Okey dokey. Let the jet-setting begin!
www.travelandleisure.com/travel-blog/carry-on/2013/08/09/family-friday-villa-rentals-by-kid-and-coe
This article interviewing Yolanda Edwards is what first introduced me to the sensible practice of renting as opposed to hoteling. It's worth reading if you want to travel with your child:
www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/travel/qa-with-yolanda-edwards-editor-and-blogger.html?scp=4&sq=clara&st=cse&_r=0