we are going for two weeks to japan and will be eating out everyday, still wondering how to order food for a toddler...can they pretty much eat everything by then? she will be 15months and we will be shopping and out pretty much the everyday....any tips????
My only advice is don't put your child into a seat of their own while you put stuff in the overhead because they then think it's their seat for the rest of the flight and ... OK, I won't say any more
Make sure you check in as early as possible and ask for a bassinet. Even if your DD doesn't sleep in it, she can sit in it and give you a rest from holding her. If you cant get a bassinet then ask for a bulk head, it just gives you a bit more space and you don't have someone in front of you putting their seat back and getting in the little space you have!
As for bottles. We had no restrictions on what we took on board (to the USA - DD was 11 months) we just put our DD's food in a separate bag and they inspected it but we didn't have to taste it or anything. The flight attendants heated bottles for us and were really helpful.
Another good thing to take for flights food wise is the Rafferty's baby food that is in a squeeze pack. We took these and they were great. We had a spoon and were able to squeeze the food directly onto the spoon and feed DD - no mess!
We also take colouring books, even though our DD is too young to colour within the lines she enjoys scribbling on the pages!
We are also flying to Hawaii via Sydney (not until August) and I have already bought a couple of colouring books ready to go! At least this time though we have a seat for DD so a bit more space will be nice.
im flying with qantas, i wonder how many kg can it hold? dd will be 15mnths and shes about 9.5kg atm, rafferty sounds like a great idea! can we bring heaps in the suitcase because we are away for 2 weeks. also did you bring your own milk or does qantas have milk on the plane-not the tiny coffee milk though that would be a pita. whats a bulk head?
The weight for a bassinet is either 12 or 15 kg's can't remember but she will be fine at 9.5kg. It is just handy to have. The bulkhead are the seats that are at the front of a section. It is the wall that blocks off the galley. Some of these have bassinet and some are just the bulkhead. The bassinet is attached to the wall at about eye level and it just drops down. Also, if yoou get a bulkhead but no bassinet then there is space to put her on the floor. Some flight crews allow it and some don't. We were lucky and it was allowed and it worked out well!
We took our own milk but she was still having formula at the time. I am not sure if they will supply milk. We took a small cooler bag and filled zip lock bags with ice to keep the contents cool that way security could see what was in the icebag!
We took heaps of the rafferty's food in our case as well. Just make sure you declare it when you go through customs, they didn't have a problem because it was commercial food but it is best to let them know you have it. Also we found in the USA that the Gerber food was good so when we started running low on the raffertys we bought Gerber and used the Raffertys only for our flights!
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Bungs them up a bit though! My DS is also a sucker for Sushi!
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