Holiday Travel Tips for Military Families

Today we are talking about holiday travel. Specifically if your family doesn’t live close by and you are getting pressure or guilt tripped into visiting over the holidays, when maybe that isn’t what you want to do.

I highly encourage you to be selfish! Think about your CORE family, those living in your house and who move with you every time you PCS. What do they want to do? Maybe it isn’t traveling to family, maybe its a bucket list trip for the area you are in, or maybe its not traveling at all!

What can we do to make it less hectic when we do decide to travel home to family?

Travel advice:

• get travel insurance and make sure to know the airline or hotel cancellation policy if leave is cancelled last minute
• There are a ton of airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, cruises that offer military discounts! 

Follow @camoflagueandperks on IG for great military travel hacking ideas!

If you’re stationed overseas over the holidays, could you embrace the local culture where you are? Deep dive into local traditions and learn and experience as much as you can, and maybe even find new traditions to carry on in your family. 

We talk about handling the holidays if your significant other is deployed. Really diving into your local community and putting yourself out there, even when its not comfortable. 

There are a lot of different technologies that can be helpful when you are geographically separated!

How can we help our kids navigate the holidays if they have a deployed parent?

Holidays can be really stressful and lonely with our military lifestyle. I encourage you to do what YOU want to do, and not worry about extended family!

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