The RV is the perfect formula for a family vacation.
Travelling in the Portugal with a RV offers a number of advantages for families.
These include:
- Cooking your own meals
- You always have everything you need close at hand (snacks, security blanket...)
- The outdoors is more fun for playing in than a hotel room
- No need to pack and unpack your bags at every destination
- Easy access to the toilet at all times
- Children love toasting marshmallows over a campfire
- Easy to stop for a nap where and when you want
Child's car seats
If your child still needs a car seat, we strongly recommend bringing your own. First, most airlines will let you check a car seat with your luggage, free of charge. Second, you know how your seat works and how to fasten it securely. For insurance reasons, the agents at your car rental location are not allowed to help you to install a rented car seat.
Note that the seats in the back of a rental RV often have lap belts only(no shoulder belt). Most rented RVs in the Portugal have two seats with anchors for securing child's car seats.
Sleeping arrangements
Class C RVs (ideal for families) always have a double overcab bed above the driver's cabin, wide enough for adults to sleep in. Many travellers have their children sleep in the overcab bed, but worry that they will roll out of bed during the night as there is no barrier to prevent this from happening.
There are two solutions to this problem. First, young children can be placed crosswise in the overcab bed (with cushions between them). Otherwise, the dinette bed or sofa-bed are good options.
Read this article to find out whether you can let your children sleep while you drive.
Cribs
RV rental suppliers in the Portugal rarely rent baby cribs.
Here are two possibilities for your baby:
1- Buy a travel crib before you leave home.
2- Use the existing bed and place cushions around the baby to prevent them from falling.
Some parents simply place the cushions on the ground for the baby to sleep on: impossible to fall!
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