Last year, TW's Emily Ashwell won the Caribbean Tourism Organisation's writer of the year award. The prize was a week in Antigua. This week Emily is there and will be sending back occasional posts.
Here is her pre-departure post . . .
As I'm travelling with my husband and six month old baby, I went to my local agent, Edwin Doran's Travel World in Twickenham, to book all the extras I needed for the trip.
The helpful agent booked us transfers with Holiday Taxis from the airport to the hotel, but said she needed to confirm that it could provide a car seat for the baby. She called back a couple of days later to say that Holiday Taxis had tried all of its taxis on the island and no one could provide a car seat.
With the many family-friendly hotel brands in the Caribbean such as Beaches and Starfish, I'm gob smacked providing a car seat should be a issue.
Speaking to other mothers, I've found most have had the same problem - traveling to destinations as diverse as Spain and Barbados. All have ended up lugging their own heavy car seat onto the plane just to give their child a safe transfer to the hotel.
Surely investing in a few car seats would give transfer companies a great selling point and generate more bookings?
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