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Pinkponyclube · 03/09/2025 14:02

Would you go out for the day to a place one hour and forty minutes away, so drive there for one hour, forty mins, spend the day there and then the same back-with a 6 year old? Or would you make a weekend out of it
Do you consider that a lot for one day?

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Dontcallmescarface · 03/09/2025 15:35

1 hour 40 minutes is around the same time as it would take to get to our nearest zoo/beach by car so yeah I would drive there and back in a day....in fact I did quite often with a 6 year old and younger. It's no big deal.

ilovepixie · 03/09/2025 15:34

Of course! That’s some people’s daily commute!

notatinydancer · 03/09/2025 15:32

Yes , I’ve done it. Fine.

notacooldad · 03/09/2025 15:30

Yeah, I used to do that all the time with the kids to go mountain biking or hiking in the lakes, Dumfries and Galloway or the Peak District.

thisfilmisboring123 · 03/09/2025 15:29

shuggles · 03/09/2025 14:41

@Pinkponyclube That's just a bit longer than my daily commute. You know that people drive longer than that just to go to work 5 days a week, right?

Edited

Do people usually take their 6 year olds to work?
Presumably that’s part of the reason why OP posted.

Crunchienuts · 03/09/2025 15:28

We don’t like driving much so this would be around our max drive time for a day trip.

PollyannaGladGame · 03/09/2025 15:24

Yes, wouldn’t think twice TBH it’s not a long car journey to me.

YippieKayakOtherBuckets · 03/09/2025 15:21

Yes. I consider anything up to two hours each way to be day-trip material if I'm the only driver.

nixon1976 · 03/09/2025 15:21

Yes, of course. Would easily do 3 hours each way for a day trip, without stopping, but my kids don't get car sick

WhyAmISoReal · 03/09/2025 15:20

We have family this far away and we always stay over. But that's because otherwise it's either lateish when you get there and earlyish when you leave so doesn't leave much of a day - my kids can't do the "put pyjamas on and sleep in the car" that others can amd neither do they wake up at the crack of dawn.

Plus it involves a motorway that is always getting congested at the times we'd want to travel!

If it was for a specific day-long event then i would be more likely to do it in a day.

Imisscoffee2021 · 03/09/2025 15:18

Yeah I would, it's not that long for a full day out.

Ablondiebutagoody · 03/09/2025 15:18

I do it often, usually for beach days or a trip to London

Blondebrownorred · 03/09/2025 15:17

I did a 6 hour round trip the other day and was only at the venue for a couple of hours.

whiteroseredrose · 03/09/2025 15:16

Yes. No problem.

Movingonup313 · 03/09/2025 15:16

Another vote here for yes id do it. Id do a 3 hour trip - can leave at 7/7.30. Have a full day and drive home that night. Especially good if have lots on the next day - best of both girls. Child might sleep on the way home if leaving at e.g 8pm/9pm. Audiboooks, music, car games. It flies in. Enjoy.

MarioLink · 03/09/2025 15:16

We've done it. It's sometimes nicer to stay over and make a weekend of it with another day out and sometimes nicer to do it cheaper and be back in your own beds at the end of a long day able to go to your normal things the next day.

CeiladhAnyone · 03/09/2025 15:14

My grandparents lived 1.5 hours away from my immediate family when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. We went to see them every month and always did there and back in a day; it was just what happened and I don't remember NOT going so we must have been going when I was five or six. The journeys seemed long and boring, but we played I spy etc and we got through them. It was much easier taking my kids on long journeys as we had a portable DVD player for when they got really bored!

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GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/09/2025 15:12

Yes I would.

From us, that’s about the time it would take to get to Legoland or, in the opposite direction, Butlins and we’ve done single days at both.

It’s also the time to various family members for us (in different directions) and whilst we don’t go up for the day often, we’ve done it a number of times. Often a lot easier than staying over.

dizzydizzydizzy · 03/09/2025 15:11

It would depend on how much I and my 6yo wanted to go. A theme park - yes. Visiting grandma - yes. A walk in the woods - no.

JHound · 03/09/2025 15:10

Pinkponyclube · 03/09/2025 14:02

Would you go out for the day to a place one hour and forty minutes away, so drive there for one hour, forty mins, spend the day there and then the same back-with a 6 year old? Or would you make a weekend out of it
Do you consider that a lot for one day?

I literally am contemplating the same but just me.

I think it’s ok. My family do longer travel times than this with kids.

CoralOP · 03/09/2025 15:07

Of course I would, it's just like a trip out to a theme park, zoo, beach etc, it's nothing.
Get a kids playlist together, snacks and get the tunes going.

RickertyRocker · 03/09/2025 15:07

That's my one way commute.

It is a lot. If it was an early start and full day, I would probably stay over.

Bogpinkbear · 03/09/2025 15:05

Yes I would and did often when my kids were that age. And further.

Ohmygodthepain · 03/09/2025 15:04

That's fine - we'd do sometimes double that for the day to visit our old friends after we moved.

1h40 is what, 115 miles straight motorway driving, I'd definitely travel that far and have done many times.

If you've got a fair bit planned, maybe make a weekend of it (we've just camped 10 miles from home for the weekend) but it's doable in a day, especially sharing the driving

BubblinTrouble · 03/09/2025 15:00

We frequently do day trips which are 3 hours away to visit DH family. No issues with my 4 and 2 year old.

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