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Traveling solo with kids as an expat in Malaysia

Cheryl

Hello everyone,

During your expat experience in Malaysia, you may have to travel solo with your kids, either to explore your host country, to visit family and friends in your home country,  or for vacation trips.
While this journey can be a great adventure, it also comes with its challenges. We therefore would like to invite you to share your insights and experiences to help fellow expats make the most of their trips with their children.

Here are a few questions to start with:

How to best prepare for traveling solo with kids?

What are the biggest challenges expat parents in Malaysia face when traveling solo with their kids?

What specific formalities or documents do you need to travel alone with kids (eg. parental consent for travel, birth certificate, etc.)?

What are your tips to smooth the journey with kids?

Share your experiences, tips and anecdotes to help fellow expats.

Thank you for your contribution.

Cheryl
½ûÂþÌìÌà Team

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wyngrove60

When we lived in KL we drove everywhere in our car to places like Penang, Port Dickson, Ipoh, Melaka etc. When we visited Singapore we'd often take one of the comfortable buses. Preparation for travelling with kids is nothing because it's easy.


I don't see so much in the way of challenges when travelling in Malaysia, except to make sure that the kids are close by and that there is no opportunity for thieves to steal either the car or the kids. I mention the kids because during our stay in Malaysia kids sometimes got kidnapped and some got killed or disappeared. Maybe not everyone agrees, but we were always very conscious of the threat of kids or women being kidnapped.


As our kids had UK passports it was quite easy travelling to many countries in Asia. Wherever we went we might have had to apply for visas in advance but in general passports were all that were needed.


No tips or anecdotes, just use common sense and be a good parent.

Ziggy With It

Forgive me for being the resident pedant.  But traveling with kids is not traveling solo.

wyngrove60

Yes it's better not to be pedantic or take things word for word. I simply assumed she meant travelling as a family as opposed to joining a group holiday or tour. It would be petty to pick apart Cheryl's English because I for one have better more important things to do.


Ziggy, also since Cheryl's questions have been posted in the forums of every country in the world, have you considered posting your same response in the other 180 forums around the world? I mean, that might give you some closure to this matter.

Ziggy With It

@wyngrove60

I'll work on controlling myself.Â