How far do you travel for a day trip with kids without staying overnight?

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How far do you travel for a day trip with kids without staying overnight?

It depends what we would do when we were there and what we had on the next day but I would say 2hrs max by car maybe 3hrs by train.

For a journey of 6 hours, we would organise overnight accommodation. Anything less than that we would break up into smaller chunks by stopping at parks or soft plays on the way.

I'd say 2.5 hours each way would be our max (toddler).

I'd say anymore than 3 it's definitely an overnighter (I have 2 very young children) may be different if yours are slightly older

2 hours max for a day trip by car longer by train now ours are teens

2 hours for a day trip (there and back so 4 total), but we’ve driven 9 hours in a day without stopping to stay overnight if that’s what you mean - just with lots of stops to eat and wee!

About 1-1.5 hours. Anything more and i’ll book a hotel and make a weekend of it. We do that quite often.

2.5 hours, although have done 3 hours. We tend to meet half way if they live 2+hours away. 3 primary aged children.

Anything longer than 2 hours we discuss staying over x

Depends on length of activity tbh.

If it was a full day in a new city with museums, parks, art galleries etc then I'd travel 2hours there.

If it was just to go to one place for a couple hours, no more than an hour.

Depends what the event at the other end is , when mine were small we did Disneyland Paris by car as a day trip a few times on days when it was going to be open late , we live in the SE and used the channel tunnel .

Anything over 2 hours I'd think about staying over. Anything over 3 hours I think I'd definitely stay over. Dc are 4 and 8.

Depends on the trip.
We did a day trip to London on the train from Manchester. Caught an early train there and a late one back, 2 hrs 10 min each way on the fast train, it was exhausting though.

It would be 2hrs for me. I'm a LP and have to do all the driving and organising.

Thanks for all your replies

Probably 2 hours if by car, maybe 3 if by train.

2-3 hours tops then

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