European Trip Planning (1 Viewer)

[Drunken knight]

8 year old likes what?

Main interests these days are NASCAR, soccer, and Dude Perfect on YouTube. I suppose soccer is most relevant for UK. But just thinking of kid-friendly activities in general. Would like to expose him to some history, but maybe a bit of a balance where can do something educational and then fun (or things with a combo of the two). It will be my first visit to the UK too, FWIW, and would like to nerd out on some history while I’m there too.

Interest in something like a renaissance festival, or reenactments?

 

[Don Quixote]

8 year old likes what?

Main interests these days are NASCAR, soccer, and Dude Perfect on YouTube. I suppose soccer is most relevant for UK. But just thinking of kid-friendly activities in general. Would like to expose him to some history, but maybe a bit of a balance where can do something educational and then fun (or things with a combo of the two). It will be my first visit to the UK too, FWIW, and would like to nerd out on some history while I’m there too.

Interest in something like a renaissance festival, or reenactments?

Maybe. Did a WW2 reenactment with him recently, but that was a bit too loud for him. Was looking at the Hampton Court Palace and the Magic Garden for a day trip while in London.

 

[Drunken knight]

@Don Quixote

… could be a low key way to include something historical

 

[Don Quixote]

@Don Quixote

… could be a low key way to include something historical

Did you intend to include a link to something? I’m not seeing what referring to specifically.

 

[Drunken knight]

@Don Quixote

… could be a low key way to include something historical

Did you intend to include a link to something? I’m not seeing what referring to specifically.

I do not have specifics, but perhaps you might be able to find regional events for the areas you intend to visit.

More of a concept I was batting around

 

[Soulfly3]

London to Paris is just over 2hrs by train, btw.
Not sure if you're interested, and with the olympics and such, might be costly and crazy... but just something to think about

edinburgh is fantastic, best spot in the UK imo

 

[Don Quixote]

Spending about 2 weeks in the UK coming up. Traveling with an 8 year old. London is going to be main base with some days either there or day trips from there.

Want to limit need to move around suitcases, etc. But planning on a second city for at least 4 nights there.

Edinburgh seems pretty far by train and would make us lose a couple of days of sightseeing. Thinking either going to Wales/Cardiff or north to York area.

Anything screaming take your 8 year old there, or some other place?

Check out Bath

Was originally planning on a day trip to Bath, but decided just to make Bath my second city. Thought more than a day trip as I was looking at it, and a lot of the history that I enjoy. Ended up booking three nights there, and then back to London to close out trip.

 

[Lehigh98]

We've thrown together an itinerary and travel and hotels booked for the most part but with flexible rates so can change if we find better / more interesting places to stay.

Weds 7/31: Fly overnight Newark, NJ to Heathrow (1 Night)
Thurs 8/1: Check in to Hilton London Bankside (3 Nights)
Sun 8/4: Stena overnight ferry to Amsterdam (1 Night)
Mon 8/5: Check in to DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station (3 nights)
Thurs 8/8: Fly Amsterdam to Reykjavik, Iceland
Check in to Hilton Reykjavik Nordica (2 Nights)
Sat 8/10: Fly Reykjavik, Iceland to Newark, NJ and head home

Thoughts on the itinerary? Now to start planning day-to-day activities.
Please let me know you had any favorite activities / restaurants / bars / etc to add to the itinerary.

Thanks!

When I started thinking about planning our next Europe trip for next summer (thread to come), I realized I never updated this from last summer. Long story short, we had a great time. I posted three different sets of pics from each stop and will try to link here if you're interested:

Trip to Europe, Part I: London (8/1-8/4)
Trip to Europe, Part II: Amsterdam (8/5-8/8)
Trip to Europe, Part III: Reykjavik, Iceland (8/8-8/10)

 

[the moops]

We are heading to northern Norway late this summer. We have done 3 other European trips as a family - Iceland, UK/Ireland, Switzerland/Lichtenstein/Italy but it has been a little while. We are all stoked for this trip, for it will be way different (well maybe not too much different than our Iceland trip) than the others.

Staying here for 4 nights https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/30905901?source_impression_id=p3_1741379457_P3Aqbm5V8Myw7Qoy
and here for 5 nights https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/972251721352180664?source_impression_id=p3_1741379437_P33m9787dLl1x1Uy

 

[Sand]

We are heading to northern Norway late this summer. We have done 3 other European trips as a family - Iceland, UK/Ireland, Switzerland/Lichtenstein/Italy but it has been a little while. We are all stoked for this trip, for it will be way different (well maybe not too much different than our Iceland trip) than the others.

Staying here for 4 nights https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/30905901?source_impression_id=p3_1741379457_P3Aqbm5V8Myw7Qoy
and here for 5 nights https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/972251721352180664?source_impression_id=p3_1741379437_P33m9787dLl1x1Uy

I've always wanted to ride my bike from Tromso to A. Definitely throw up a trip report on how you like this area of the world.