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Comfortable car seats for kids adapted for their age.Here are some of the main items for your road trip with toddler checklist: We always pack SPF50 sunscreen lotion for all our trips. We usually pack mosquito repellant spray, but recently we bought mosquito repellent bracelets and they seem to work well too. Disinfectant. We use iodine antiseptics for wound treatment.Make sure to pack some in different sizes and always keep at least a few of them within easy reach. But on a road trip with kids, you don’t have an ice pack or ice cubes at hand. Our boys are so active and adventurous, so when they were little, they used to fall all the time. Ice spray or a cold pack is a must when traveling with young kids. But it’s literally a life-saver on a family road trip! First aid kit (such as this compact first-aid kit) is good to have on any trip.So put these on your checklist and make sure you always have them at hand! The following items are among the most important road trip essentials for kids. It allows you to easily take nice pictures of the entire family. A tripod and wireless remote control for your camera are nice to have when road tripping with the family.

Nowadays, we usually rely on Google Maps, unless traveling to a place where it doesn’t work well. In the past, we used to pack our TomTom GPS for every trip.

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Make sure you download the maps of the area where you will be road-tripping.

GPS or Google Maps app on your smartphone.

We also always pack a USB-charger for in the car. That’s where the battery pack comes in handy.

Make sure you also pack chargers for each of these devices.

Here you can read more about our experience with audiobooks during long car rides with kids. Or – my best suggestion – an MP3 player with audiobooks for children (our kids’ favorites are Harry Potter audiobooks).

Alternatively, pack a tablet with some games (but you’ll likely need one tablet per kid).

Instead, make sure you have plenty of DVD’s with children’s movies ( check here for some popular kids’ DVD titles). If you are road tripping with kids, you will never get a chance to listen to it anyway. I’m not going to tell you to pack your favorite CD collection for a family road trip.

Tablet/ DVD player/ or an MP3 player to keep your kids entertained in the car.

Check out this best-selling battery pack! It’s a true life-saver if your phone tends to run empty long before you reach your hotel for the night.

Battery pack to charge all your electronic devices.

This is our road trip packing list for families: Tech gear and entertainment You may not have needed any of this ten years ago, but now it’s unthinkable to set on the road without these items. READ ALSO: Top Tips for Traveling with Kidsīefore I tell you about the more traditional items you need to pack for a family road trip, let’s start with the most important things first. So use this ‘road trip essentials’ packing list as a guideline, to check if you haven’t forgotten any of the useful items that will make your family road trip more comfortable. After all, you are probably not going to carry a huge cooler or a car seat organizer on the plane. Needless to say, you will be able to pack much more if you are traveling close to home. There are two types of road trips – the ones you make with your own car/ campervan, and the ones where you travel overseas and rent a car.

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I guess you don’t need someone else to tell you how many socks or t-shirts to pack for your upcoming road trip, or to remind you to carry car registration and insurance documents or a passport if visiting a foreign country… At the same time, it’s not a complete road trip packing list. This road trip packing list contains all the items that make our life easier and road trips with kids more enjoyable.

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So it’s high time to update our family road trip packing list, and I thought I would share it with you as well.

But I recently looked at our family road trip packing list and realized how outdated it was. We have a standard packing list for all kinds of trips: beach vacation, city trip, skiing holiday, and, of course for our favorite way of traveling – road trips with kids. Looking for a family road trip packing list or wondering what are some of the road trip essentials for kids? This packing list should give you a good overview of the things to pack (but also the ones to leave at home).