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I say go for it but then again I just took a 14 hour flight with a two year old so I'm feeling kinda brave lately

I would suggest St. thomas or Puerto Rico, no passport needed for either!

We took LO to Florida at 5mo. and have a trip to Cozumel coming up, LO will be 9 mo. We had a blast in FL so I'm really looking forward to our trip to Mexico. Full disclosure tho, we had and will have family with us both times, so I think that does ease some of the stress, but I would still totally go someplace warm without help!

15 months for a long weekend. But it was only a 2 hr drive, but it didn't go well. Then at 18m we went to the beach for a week. 5 hr drive. We had a great time even when LO decided she wouldn't nap/sleep with out and the PNP is the devil.

We are debating this... Dd is 16 months old . Dh and i usually go down south somewhere every winter to escape the brutal canadian cold.. But our babysitters are all tied up during my spring break this year. So we are tossing around the idea of taking her with us.

I'm not sure if it would be at all relaxing though and worth the $$. Plus the last time we went to a hotel she was a DEVIL CHILD all weekend and refused to sleep. It was awful for everyone.

If we had lots of $$$ lying around I would totally go, but since vacations down south are so expensive when flying from Canada, I think we will probably save the money and take her in a year or two when she (and we) can enjoy it a little more.

We went 3 hours away to a resort when she was around 9 months old and it was fun. I mean it wasn't relaxing and she was still BFing and therefore waking up in the MOTN, but it was fun to get out of the house and take her swimming. Our LOs are the same age and I'd totally go on a vacation with M.

@Foodnerd81: I suppose 6 hrs is kind of long, but compared to the 15+ hrs flight (a full day's travel) to visit family, it felt like a breeze!

I think you should go. Even if it is difficult, you'll have the warm weather to relax outside in (that was our rationale, at least)

We traveled a ton with DS in his first year (a ton of new cities and 4 new countries!). Our very first trip with him was at 4 months, just a long weekend to Martha's Vineyard. Other than screaming in the car seat the whole way, he was a great traveler. Our first big trip was to France when he was 6 months, the jetlag was rough, but everything else was fine. If you can do an all-inclusive somewhere warm, it would probably feel more like a real vacation because then you wouldn't have to worry about cooking, which I always struggle with with LOs.

We had taken her on several weekend breaks in the U.K, just driving, from 2 months onwards. She usually did great so we decided to take her on her first flight to Spain at 11 months...I think we probably picked one of the worst times to travel since she was mobile but not yet walking and also just beginning her picky eating phase. I'm not going to lie, it was tough and we had to massively change our expectations of what our "holiday" was going to be like, but we all survived and I would do it again, only maybe a few months later.

We are travelling overseas this year at 19, 21 and almost 24 months so it'll be interesting to see what challenges those ages bring!

We took our kids really young, both times to the beach, and we've traveled a lot with them since. What I can say is that sometimes they adjust well and sometimes not so much. Often times we end up cosleeping. But when all is said and done I barely remember the bad sleep and just all the wonderful memories we've made. Seriously I have never regretted any trip and as long as you keep expectations low I think you will have a good time!

@Foodnerd81: What about Key West? I bet it would be warm! And it's so fun.

I say go for it! we haven't flown with LO yet, but we did take a roadtrip and she did great. She loved staying in hotels and swimming in the other pools, it was small but it was fun. I wish we would have taken a flight with her before LO2 comes, but it's too late now as I'm hitting the "no fly zone" in my pregnancy.