making an order to pick up at boots store in airport!!

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I'm travelling to Spain next month and have been worrying about this! We are planning to take ready made formula just for ease really. We are travelling from East Midlands Airport and you order the ready made milk and have it delivered to Boots which is after the security checks so you can take it on the plane in a bag or add it to your hand luggage. It's a whole new ball game travelling with a baby hey?!

See that makes sense, to collect it airside! I wonder is it different for some reason at Gatwick? Do you know if it applies to boxes of powder? I mean, to pack it is nearly 1kg of an already small luggage allowance, so if I can collect it and carry it on, that'd be better!

Yep, whole new ball game! I'm trying to pack for LO already!!

 

[Princess Leah]

I'm not sure. The only Boots they have is airside so I don't see why not. If u look at east midlands airport website there is a phone number x

 

[SJR]

The Boots buy and collect service is awful. They admitted it themselves!

 

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I'm going to call the airside Boots tomorrow so will update if I get a chance. Will probably just pack my own box to be on the safe side now!!! But I still think it'd be a really good idea, and I'm sure most parents would be happy with such a service.

 

[Princess Leah]

The Boots buy and collect service is awful. They admitted it themselves!

Just wondered why you think that? Have you had a bad experience, if so which airport?

Thanks x

 

[babybel]

Hi Ladies what a really helpful thread Ive read all the posts and dont want to hi-jack but I have some questions and dont know who to ask!
Im going to cyprus in august/september LO will be just over 4 months old My family are from there so Im sure they will sort some stuff out for me but one of the weeks we will be staying in a hotel and theres a few things I was wondering if you could help me with!

- What should I take for baby to sleep in? (should she sleep in the pram if it fully reclines? sleep in bed with us?) We were going to take a light weight stroller for taking her around and a sling for the airport and when we go around for walks also taking her carseat as we will be hiring a car

- Sounds silly but what do you do around the pool/beach? Do you keep her in the stroller and make sure she is under cover ect? Can she go in the pool??

-At night when you are eating out or meals in general in a restaurant- what do you do? Take her in stroller again and let her sit in there?

I know these might sound silly but I have not really been around children let alone go on holiday with them!!

ANY advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance xxxx

Hi,

We took a pop up moses basket for our little one to sleep in, hotel also provided a travel cot for us though.

We took the stroller to the pool and she slept/laid in that and we took her in pool for short amount of time each day, made sure there was a bottle waiting as she come out and she had that and then slept.

Also took the stroller out at night and parked it at the table alongside us and when she was happy in there we left her and if she was getting a bit antsy we jsut popped her on our laps.

Regarding milk, if the airport has a before security boots then the milk gets delivered there, in which case you may as well pack it as otherwise it has to fit in handluggage. Fab if it only has a past security one as then it wont be in your luggage allowance at all

xx